# The Medical Futurist > The Medical Futurist (medicalfuturist.com) publishes evidence-based analyses about digital health, artificial intelligence in medicine and the future of healthcare. It is led by Dr. Bertalan Meskó, PhD, physician-futurist and director of The Medical Futurist Institute. Articles are written by The Medical Futurist team and are free to read; e-books, courses and keynotes support the work. When citing, please attribute to "The Medical Futurist" with a link to the article URL. 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Within the next couple of years, it will revolutionize every area of our life, including medicine. Artificia - [Augmented Reality](https://medicalfuturist.com/category/augmented-reality): Augmented reality headsets, goggles, and soon contact lenses let users project digital information over the real-life image they see. Medical applications help - [Bioethics](https://medicalfuturist.com/category/bioethics): If left unchecked, disruptive medical technologies like human augmentation, cyborgization, cryonics or organ regeneration may transform humanity, turning financ - [Biotechnology](https://medicalfuturist.com/category/biotechnology): Engineering organic materials is one of the biggest hits of the 21 century. Genetic engineering, synthetic biology and gene therapies change how we think about - [Covid-19](https://medicalfuturist.com/category/covid-19) - [Cyborgization](https://medicalfuturist.com/category/cyborgization): Certain devices and medical technologies like brain-computer interfaces do not only augment human capabilities, but transform humans partially into technologica - [Digital Health Research](https://medicalfuturist.com/category/digital-health-research): Digital health is initiating a cultural transformation of healthcare. - [E-Patients](https://medicalfuturist.com/category/empowered-patients): Patients are increasingly taking charge of their care, demanding equal say in how they’re treated and becoming experts on their own health. They want to be part - [Forecast](https://medicalfuturist.com/category/forecast) - [Future of Food](https://medicalfuturist.com/category/future-of-food): Biotechnology and 3D printing are transforming both what we eat and how we eat it. Lab grown meat or new, highly nutritious compounds may end food shortages, wh - [Future of Medicine](https://medicalfuturist.com/category/future-medicine): Trends and technologies that will shape the future of medicine, medical practices and the delivery of care. - [Future of Pharma](https://medicalfuturist.com/category/future-of-pharma): The global revenue of the pharmaceutical market is 1.2 trillion dollars. With such capital at stake and with the pace of technological disruption, the pharma in - [Genomics](https://medicalfuturist.com/category/genomics): Combining each individual’s genetic makeup from their DNA code with the characteristics they have helps design personalized therapies tailored to every patient’ - [Health Insurance](https://medicalfuturist.com/category/health-insurance): Everything that is related to health insurance, insurance policies and digital health technologies that shape it all. - [Health Sensors & Trackers](https://medicalfuturist.com/category/health-sensors-trackers): Trackers, wearables and sensors in healthcare Wearable, implanted and digestible sensors measure health parameters and vital signs wherever patients or their ca - [Healthcare Design](https://medicalfuturist.com/category/healthcare-design): This movement aims to redesign the whole healthcare experience around patients, involving all stakeholders of medicine from patients, nurses and physicians to d - [Healthcare Policy](https://medicalfuturist.com/category/healthcare-policy): Reports, articles and analyses that help shape healthcare policies worldwide for the wider adoption of digital health. - [Lifestyle medicine](https://medicalfuturist.com/category/lifestyle-medicine) - [Medical Education](https://medicalfuturist.com/category/medical-education): Physicians of the future must be trained to treat patients as equal partners in their care, while being able to deal with new technologies and feeling at home i - [Nanotechnology](https://medicalfuturist.com/category/nanotechnology): Nanometer-scale devices could soon swim in bodily fluids and live under the skin or even perform robotic surgery in the digestive system. These technologies cou - [Personalized Medicine](https://medicalfuturist.com/category/personalized-medicine): Technologies like cheap genomic sequencing are enabling patients to receive entirely customized therapy based on their genetic, molecular and metabolic makeup. - [Portable Medical Diagnostics](https://medicalfuturist.com/category/portable-diagnostics): Portable and innovative medical diagnostic tools will shepherd us into a new era. Today's general practitioners should all be equipped with digital health techn - [Robotics](https://medicalfuturist.com/category/robotics): Humanoid robots caring for patients in hospitals; robots used to disinfect operating rooms and surgical robots used for operations are only a few examples of a - [Science Fiction](https://medicalfuturist.com/category/science-fiction): Medical news every day make us feel like we’re living in a science fiction story. Disruptive technology prints organs, diagnoses disease with artificial intelli - [Security & Privacy](https://medicalfuturist.com/category/security-privacy): Security, privacy issues, ransom ware scandals and blockchain are all important topics that shape the future of healthcare. - [Space Medicine](https://medicalfuturist.com/category/space-medicine): Articles about medical technologies and healthcare provided on board of space flights. - [Telemedicine & Smartphones](https://medicalfuturist.com/category/telemedicine): Devices and smartphones connect patients to caregivers from anywhere in the world. Through video, audio and chat consultations, patients can have doctor visits - [TMF](https://medicalfuturist.com/category/tmf) - [Virtual Reality](https://medicalfuturist.com/category/virtual-reality): Virtual reality devices let users dive into the virtual world by giving them a 3D, 360 degrees view of a projected digital scenery. This technology could make r ## Evergreen articles - [Four Futures For AI In Medical Diagnostics](https://medicalfuturist.com/four-futures-for-ai-in-medical-diagnostics): Artificial intelligence is already becoming part of medical diagnostics. Algorithms can analyze medical images, identify patterns in clinical data, support differential diagnosis a - [AI Agents In Healthcare: What To Expect?](https://medicalfuturist.com/ai-agents-in-healthcare-what-to-expect): 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 m - [What Will Blood Testing Look Like In The Near Future?](https://medicalfuturist.com/what-will-blood-testing-look-like-in-the-near-future): Blood tests will remain fundamental for the diagnostic work, but parts of the process will change in the next 5-10 years. - [Career Guide In Digital Health And Healthcare AI](https://medicalfuturist.com/career-guide-in-digital-health-and-healthcare-ai): 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. - [Preparing For AI-Driven Medicine: 6 Crucial Questions For Tomorrow’s Doctors](https://medicalfuturist.com/preparing-for-ai-driven-medicine-6-crucial-questions-for-tomorrows-doctors): Here are six critical questions medical professionals must be able to answer in order to navigate the AI revolution successfully. - [Five Ideas That Help Make Sense of AI in Medicine](https://medicalfuturist.com/five-ideas-that-help-make-sense-of-ai-in-medicine): Everyone talks about artificial intelligence in medicine. Every week brings another model, another benchmark, another demonstration of something AI can suddenly do better, faster, - [Navigating 20 AI Use Cases in Healthcare: From Hype to Evidence!](https://medicalfuturist.com/navigating-20-ai-use-cases-in-healthcare-from-hype-to-evidence): To see what is really going on and what we can realistically expect from AI to deliver in practice, we have mapped the rapidly expanding universe of AI use cases in healthcare from - [Mapping the Future of Healthcare: Six Practical Foresight Methods You Can Use Today](https://medicalfuturist.com/mapping-the-future-of-healthcare-six-practical-foresight-methods-you-can-use-today): In an era of exponential change, foresight isn’t a luxury—it’s a necessity. As technologies, systems, and societal expectations reshape medicine at an unprecedented speed, the […] - [What Should Primary Care Look Like in the Future?](https://medicalfuturist.com/what-should-primary-care-look-like-in-the-future): I truly hope that very soon I do not have to make an appointment at the GP when I suspect signs of a disease, but my GP will send me a message that she spotted something irregular - [What I Told The Next Generation Of Physicians About The Future Of Medicine](https://medicalfuturist.com/what-i-told-the-next-generation-of-physicians-about-the-future-of-medicine): Seventeen years after my own medical graduation, I returned to the University of Debrecen to address its newest physicians. I wanted to offer them a […] - [4 Practical Technologies Helping Patients Get Through Medical Procedures](https://medicalfuturist.com/4-practical-technologies-aiding-patients-getting-through-medical-procedures): 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 […] - [The Technological Future Of Surgery](https://medicalfuturist.com/the-technological-future-of-surgery): The future of surgery offers an amazing cooperation between humans and technology, through which surgeries reach high levels of precision and efficiency. - [The Future Of Pharma Reps: 5 Ways AI Will Transform Pharmaceutical Sales Representatives](https://medicalfuturist.com/the-future-of-pharma-reps-5-ways-ai-will-transform-pharmaceutical-sales-representatives): Over the past 15 years, I have given hundreds of keynotes to pharmaceutical companies around the world. One question comes up remarkably often, especially when […] - [The Current State Of Over 1600 FDA-Approved, AI-Based Medical Devices](https://medicalfuturist.com/the-current-state-of-fda-approved-ai-based-medical-devices): Given that healthcare is an industry where decisions can literally be a matter of life and death, the importance of effective regulation can’t be overstated. Now this is one hell o - [AI Assistance In Clinical Trials: The Practical Opportunities](https://medicalfuturist.com/ai-assistance-in-clinical-trials-the-practical-opportunities): Clinical trials are costly and slow, have low success rates but are essential in improving healthcare. Let’s see the various ways AI can help the process. - [How To Predict The Future Of Healthcare: Method #2 – Futures Wheel](https://medicalfuturist.com/how-to-predict-the-future-of-healthcare-method-2-futures-wheel): The Futures Wheel helps us understand the cascading consequences and opportunities. This is the easiest way to start thinking about the future in a productive manner. - [5 Things That Will Define The Future Of Pharma’s Medical Affairs](https://medicalfuturist.com/5-things-that-will-define-the-future-of-pharmas-medical-affairs): Over the past years, I have given more than a hundred keynotes to Medical Affairs teams around the world. These conversations have given me a […] - [Data Annotators: The Unsung Heroes Of Artificial Intelligence Development](https://medicalfuturist.com/data-annotation): We hear a lot about AI, but almost nothing about the work essential for the healthcare AI revolution: labeling and annotating data so algorithms can learn from it. Who does it? How - [3 Health Innovations That Would Not Exist Without AI](https://medicalfuturist.com/3-health-innovations-that-would-not-exist-without-ai): Artificial intelligence (AI) is making headlines practically every day. Some praise its ability to provide new medical insights, while others point to concerning privacy risks […] - [How To Predict The Future Of Healthcare: Method #1 – Forecasting](https://medicalfuturist.com/how-to-predict-the-future-of-healthcare-method-1-forecasting): We can have a more accurate estimate of the future using the right prediction methods. Here is one, called forecasting. Part 1 of our “Futures series” - [Will AI Companions Change Our Lives And Relationships?](https://medicalfuturist.com/will-ai-companions-change-our-lives-and-relationships): What if you loath the AI friend of your human friend? Will you be punched in the face because your AI Karen just told a random stranger in the supermarket they are talking nonsense - [The Future of Emergency Medicine: 6 Technologies That Make Patients The Point-of-Care](https://medicalfuturist.com/future-emergency-medicine-innovations-making-patients-point-care): Car crashes, home injuries, fires, natural disasters: every minute – if not every second – spent without treatment in such cases of medical emergencies and […] - [Best Examples Of Digital Health For Patients With Intellectual Disability](https://medicalfuturist.com/best-examples-of-digital-health-for-patients-with-intellectual-disability): Existing digital health solutions can take on new, critical roles beyond their conventional uses. - [Exoskeletons In Healthcare: The Era Of Great Advancements](https://medicalfuturist.com/the-state-of-exoskeletons-in-healthcare): With over a dozen FDA approved exoskeletons and 84 existing medical products on the market we must prepare for great advancements in this segment. - [Science Needs A Better Way To Think About The Future](https://medicalfuturist.com/science-needs-a-better-way-to-think-about-the-future): Our new Nature Comment introduces “translational foresight”: a framework for bringing futures methods into the everyday machinery of science. Every research programme is, in one [… - [6 Healthcare Examples Of Virtual, Augmented And Mixed Reality](https://medicalfuturist.com/6-healthcare-examples-of-virtual-augmented-and-mixed-reality): Virtual, augmented and mixed reality all fall under the umbrella term of extended reality, and all are finding their way into healthcare. Let’s get acquainted with those “new reali - [Digital Front Doors: Unlocking Healthcare’s New Frontier](https://medicalfuturist.com/digital-front-doors-in-healthcare): Digital front doors can make the healthcare experience more comfortable and less complicated. However, it is not obvious to make it the right way. - [Health Equity In The AI And Digital Health Era: Promise Or Peril?](https://medicalfuturist.com/health-equity-in-the-ai-and-digital-health-era-promise-or-peril): Health equity through digital health and AI is not a technological matter, but a socioeconomic one that needs to be addressed accordingly. - [What Can Quantum Computing Do To Healthcare?](https://medicalfuturist.com/quantum-computing-in-healthcare): Quantum computing might bring supersonic drug design, in silico clinical trials with virtual humans simulated ‘live’, full-speed whole genome sequencing and analytics, the movement - [3 Things Transhumanism Can Give To Healthcare](https://medicalfuturist.com/3-things-transhumanism-can-give-to-healthcare): Transhumanisms dreams of a future where aging is not a fate but a solvable puzzle. This futuristic movement sheds light on new rights, maps out feasible innovations for disease man ## Latest articles ## Knowledge hub (definitions) - [What is Nutrigenomics?](https://medicalfuturist.com/wiki/nutrigenomics): Technological innovations aim to help us track what’s in our food, what we should eat based on our genetic background or support the process of […] - [What is Digital Tattoo?](https://medicalfuturist.com/wiki/digital-tattoo): In the course of the development of medical devices, a general trend has emerged: tools are getting more miniaturized, digitized and connected than ever. While - [What is Cryosleep?](https://medicalfuturist.com/wiki/cryosleep): Cryonics means the low-temperature preservation of a human corpse, with the hope that one day it can be restored to life and full health. Bodies […] - [What is Genome Sequencing?](https://medicalfuturist.com/wiki/genome-sequencing): The human genome is the blueprint for building a person. When the Human Genome Project was completed in 2003, and the DNA double spiral uncovered […] - [What is Digital health?](https://medicalfuturist.com/wiki/digital-health): Digital health is the cultural transformation of how disruptive technologies that provide digital and objective data accessible to both caregivers and patients ## E-books - [100 Questions and Answers about AI in Healthcare](https://medicalfuturist.com/books): Discover artificial intelligence in healthcare in “100 Questions and Answers About Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare.” This guide explores AI’s impact on pa - [Tech Giants in Healthcare – Updated Edition](https://medicalfuturist.com/books): This comprehensive guide, Tech Giants in Healthcare, clarifies how and why big tech companies step into healthcare, and breaks it down from one market player [… - [The Medical Futurist’s Survey On Generative AI In Healthcare](https://medicalfuturist.com/books): Insights from 400 Healthcare Professionals on the Future of AI and LLM in Medicine. 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