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Determining patients’ race from chest x-rays alone or diagnosing type 2 diabetes from short audio samples. AI can do it and we don’t know how. There are fascinating examples of unusual associations.

Let’s see what technologies should be obsolete in healthcare by 2050!

When a physician creates a medical record about a patient, does that belong to his intellectual property? Or does it belong to the patient? Or the healthcare institution that runs the EMR system?

Sometimes, it’s important to ask such questions that first might look a bit odd, but you take a second look and find a lot of interesting things in it.

We explore 3 technologies and approaches that could make a needle-free healthcare future a reality, and we contemplate the benefits of such a future.

It is challenging to pinpoint examples that actually found their way into everyday medical practice, that became part of “standard” healthcare. Here are our 3 bets for the pioneers.

How can we train doctors today for the patients of the future? Medicine will be materially different, we listed the main aspects of change.

Blood tests will remain fundamental for the diagnostic work, but parts of the process will change in the next 5-10 years.

In the early days of Facebook, the company’s progress was guided by the “move fast and break things” principle. To a certain extent, this was […]

Showing the 50 of the most promising digital health technologies and where we at The Medical Futurist see them today.

What is the hype behind AI agents? Is it just new technobabble or is it transformative technology? And what to expect from AI agents in healthcare? We address these questions and more in this article.

Whether your background is tech-savvy, medically inclined, or somewhere in between, this article aims to share some straightforward advice to help you navigate your journey.

To get a better outlook on AI scribes, in particular, medical AI scribes, this article dives into the concept and contemplates 3 ways in which the technology can aid clinicians and even human scribes in their tasks. 

We are proud to introduce The Medical Futurist’s 100 Digital Health And AI Companies Of 2024 infographic.

Here is a list of seven technologies I trust will be gaining momentum in 2025 – and will have a significant effect on healthcare in general.

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.

Your Map To The Future lays out tools and techniques futurists have been using for decades so you can start using them immediately to shape your personal and professional futures.