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.
If you’re among the thousands of medical students worldwide or are about to pursue a degree in healthcare, it might have dawned on you that […]
There is no digital health without sacrificing some of our privacy. The key is to know how you can control this process and protect what’s valuable.
Microsoft in healthcare: the company’s multi-billion dollar bet on artificial intelligence-based solutions in medicine starts paying off.
AI for medical use, cloud services for healthcare practices, apps for research – Google is everywhere in the digital health field. But the competition is fierce, and the race is still wide open.
While we were battling the COVID-19 virus in 2020, other infections were also happening, albeit in other, digital systems. We are, of course, talking about […]
Supporting digital health technologies that facilitate the doctor-patient relationship.
There are many threats if we let medical innovation run wild. We collected 10 hazards that technology brings about in the digital health age.
Facial recognition technology is upon us; phones and computers can now be unlocked with your specific facial structure using this gimmick, but it can also scarily be used to identify you from security cameras which are increasingly becoming omnipresent.
Chances are your health data was already stolen or will be at some point. This is how it happens.
How will the billions and billions of dollars these companies spend on establishing positions in medicine transform the ways healthcare happens?
Every now and then we see something that freaks out even the seasoned team of The Medical Futurist. From robot nannies taking care of human babies grown in artificial wombs to waking up with an electric shock.
A lot of evidence-based studies have been proving the use of VR for medical purposes. But can the same happen with the metaverse too?
When it comes to non-fungible tokens (NFTs), or the emerging form of digital certificate that certifies an asset as being one-of-a-kind, the world seems to […]
From the approval of a new prescription VR treatment to renewed privacy concerns, 2021 has been full of digital health developments. Indeed, some news might […]
Data is the foundation of artificial intelligence. As the importance of A.I. grows in modern medicine, there’s a huge need for data (as well as […]
