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Under-researched female health problems have incredible societal costs. Not only on the labour market, where conditions like rheumatoid arthritis, autoimmune diseases and similar ‘womanly’ problems take off years of the careers of millions. But also in other areas: paying for the extra years in elderly care or losing the capacities of females, who are the primary caretakers in most families. 

They all want to build strongholds early in this expeccted-to-become super lucrative segment. The road is bumpy, marked with expensive failures and promising successes.

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.

Medical A.I. will surely become competent enough to efficiently deal with a great number of health questions. But tricking patients into believing they interact with a human practitioner when they are not is an entirely different issue.

Here are our bets on what each tech giant will do next as part of their journey into the healthcare space.

While eliminating bias across all potential inclusion points poses a considerable challenge, researchers are not backing down to ‘debias’ an algorithm. Here are 4 promising ways that researchers have recently investigated.

The main difference between a ‘full-grown’ virtual wards and the earlier existing solutions is the available data: virtual wards provide the same data real time as would be available if the patient was hospitalised.

A cornucopia of new jobs will be born, some of these we can predict now, but surely, there are many we don’t even know will exist in 20 years.

The widening gap in access to healthcare between rich and poor can only be bridged with digital health solutions. If they are used wisely.

New developments, especially in the field of artificial intelligence make us contemplate how helpful A.I. tutors can be in training medical professionals

Fake drugs take the lives of hundreds of thousands of people annualy. A new idea can give a powerfull and very accessible tool to patients to avoid risks

As adding animals to a number of therapies provided benefits human therapists could not achieve, the same seems to be true for adding robots to some therapies: they can provide assistance neither humans nor pets can offer.

Just because our country has the situation under control, this is not the case in other parts of the world. Unless it is under control everywhere, it might be not over yet.

Healthcare accounts for 4-5% of the global carbon footprint. We analyzed 5 ways to decrease this significant impact.

We designed this course to provide a complete overview of digital health, guiding users through the technological aspects, and equipping them to be able to predict and forecast what’s coming next.

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?