Future of Medicine

Artificial intelligence-based voice-to-text technologies promise to turn the tables: the doctor and the patient speak while a voice assistant listens in and puts down the interpreted text into the relevant columns in the EHRs.

Here, we share 7 examples of what these next milestones for AI in healthcare might look like. As these mostly represent ideal scenarios and aspirations, there are no current examples but hints of what we can expect.

We share 8 examples of what AI is likely to do in the healthcare field in order to better anticipate the future.

The drug sends a message to a caregiver after the patient swallowed it. The doctor prescribes virtual reality treatments for migraines. Do you think it is science fiction? You are mistaken.

We compiled a list of ten research topics we believe are promising for anyone wishing to find their calling in digital health research.

From skin checking applications and AI to remote care devices and robotics, the field is going through a paradigm shift making patients more and more the point of care.

Finding out what happened to 3D-printed casts and why they haven’t broken into healthcare.

Medical events and conferences are crucial in bringing patients, physicians, policy-makers, and the industry together. Therefore, the way these are organized has an impact on the progress of digital health and AI too. Let’s see how.

As futurists, we have constantly been exploring what the future of healthcare holds for medical professionals and patients alike for years. With the rate of […]

Connected continuous glucose sensing technologies, sensors inserted under the skin, digital skin patches, and many more innovations appeared on the market in the last years to make diabetes management as easy as possible. Here, we collected the flagship companies on the way to ultimately building the artificial pancreas or offering solutions to turn diabetes into an invisible condition.

Digital therapeutics offers evidence-based, clinically backed solutions to manage and/or improve health conditions via software and/or other digital health technologies that complement traditonal treatment regimes.

At some point in our lives, we’ve all been a patient; and the journey to recovery is not always the most pleasant or comfortable. Most […]

Futures studies is an interdisciplinary approach to explore and analyse possible futures. Such types of research aim to envision and prepare for eventualities and have […]

3D printing drugs is not a fantasy anymore. Unbelievable shapes and any kind of drug can be fabricated with the groundbreaking technology. The UK biotech company, FabRx believes it could even appear as a regular technique in hospitals and pharmacies for creating personalized drugs in specific doses within 5-10 years.

Do you feel under the weather but don’t want to go to the doctor yet? Are you searching for a solution to inform yourself about any possible condition from the comfort of your home and with the ease of your phone or computer? Of course, there’s an app for that! Not only one, but numerous. Join us as we test how well several services perform at gauging possible diagnoses based on one’s signs and symptoms. We entrust our diagnosis with the Mayo Clinic, WebMD, Your.MD, Symptomate and Ada symptom checker services. Here’s our big symptom checker review.

How familiar are you with your digital health data footprint? Do you even know what kind of health data is generated about you and where it is stored? And what happens with this ever-growing pile of information after you die? Who owns this data and who can get access to it? Why could this even be interesting and for whom? We have dived into the mainly overlooked area of posthumous medical data and almost got lost. Here are our findings but just a heads up: it’s messy and complicated.