[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":1126},["ShallowReactive",2],{"research":3},{"page":4,"posts":78,"totalpages":989},{"id":5,"date":6,"date_gmt":7,"guid":8,"modified":10,"modified_gmt":11,"slug":12,"status":13,"type":14,"link":15,"title":16,"content":18,"excerpt":21,"author":23,"featured_media":24,"parent":24,"menu_order":24,"comment_status":25,"ping_status":25,"template":26,"meta":27,"yst_prominent_words":28,"class_list":29,"better_featured_image":34,"acf":35,"yoast_meta":36,"_links":39},24743,"2019-09-06T21:38:28","2019-09-06T19:38:28",{"rendered":9},"https:\u002F\u002Fapi.medicalfuturist.com\u002F?page_id=24743","2019-09-09T14:47:56","2019-09-09T12:47:56","research","publish","page","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fresearch\u002F",{"rendered":17},"Research",{"rendered":19,"protected":20},"\n\u003Cp>The mission of The Medical Futurist Institute is to initiate public discussions about how the old paradigm of the paternalistic model of medicine is transforming into equal partnership between patients and professionals and how it is aided and augmented by disruptive technologies. \u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>By providing reports, publications and daily commentary on new technological inventions, the Institute aims at preparing every stakeholder of healthcare for adopting digital health in a way that the human component remains decisive.\u003C\u002Fp>\n",false,{"rendered":22,"protected":20},"\u003Cp>The mission of The Medical Futurist Institute is to initiate public discussions about how the old paradigm of the paternalistic model of medicine is transforming […]\u003C\u002Fp>\n",10,0,"closed","",{"_acf_changed":20,"footnotes":26},[],[30,14,31,32,33],"post-24743","type-page","status-publish","hentry",null,[],{"yoast_wpseo_title":37,"yoast_wpseo_metadesc":38,"yoast_wpseo_canonical":15},"Digital Health Research - The Medical Futurist","We analyze the role of digital health technologies, especially artificial intelligence, in the future of medicine and healthcare.",{"self":40,"collection":46,"about":49,"author":52,"replies":56,"version-history":59,"predecessor-version":63,"wp:attachment":67,"wp:term":70,"curies":74},[41],{"href":42,"targetHints":43},"https:\u002F\u002Fapi.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-json\u002Fwp\u002Fv2\u002Fpages\u002F24743",{"allow":44},[45],"GET",[47],{"href":48},"https:\u002F\u002Fapi.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-json\u002Fwp\u002Fv2\u002Fpages",[50],{"href":51},"https:\u002F\u002Fapi.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-json\u002Fwp\u002Fv2\u002Ftypes\u002Fpage",[53],{"embeddable":54,"href":55},true,"https:\u002F\u002Fapi.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-json\u002Fwp\u002Fv2\u002Fusers\u002F10",[57],{"embeddable":54,"href":58},"https:\u002F\u002Fapi.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-json\u002Fwp\u002Fv2\u002Fcomments?post=24743",[60],{"count":61,"href":62},1,"https:\u002F\u002Fapi.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-json\u002Fwp\u002Fv2\u002Fpages\u002F24743\u002Frevisions",[64],{"id":65,"href":66},24744,"https:\u002F\u002Fapi.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-json\u002Fwp\u002Fv2\u002Fpages\u002F24743\u002Frevisions\u002F24744",[68],{"href":69},"https:\u002F\u002Fapi.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-json\u002Fwp\u002Fv2\u002Fmedia?parent=24743",[71],{"taxonomy":72,"embeddable":54,"href":73},"yst_prominent_words","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-json\u002Fwp\u002Fv2\u002Fyst_prominent_words?post=24743",[75],{"name":76,"href":77,"templated":54},"wp","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.w.org\u002F{rel}",[79,206,366,485,607,753,884,1014],{"id":80,"date":81,"date_gmt":82,"guid":83,"modified":85,"modified_gmt":86,"slug":87,"status":13,"type":88,"link":89,"title":90,"content":92,"excerpt":94,"author":96,"featured_media":97,"comment_status":25,"ping_status":25,"sticky":54,"template":26,"format":98,"meta":99,"categories":100,"tags":104,"project_category":105,"contact_email_category":106,"yst_prominent_words":107,"class_list":108,"better_featured_image":116,"acf":147,"yoast_meta":155,"_links":157},61047,"2026-07-31T10:39:33","2026-07-31T08:39:33",{"rendered":84},"https:\u002F\u002Fmedicalfuturist.com\u002F?post_id=61047&_wpnonce=3155b40385&status=auto-draft&type=post","2026-07-31T14:38:21","2026-07-31T12:38:21","science-needs-a-better-way-to-think-about-the-future","post","https:\u002F\u002Fmedicalfuturist.com\u002Fscience-needs-a-better-way-to-think-about-the-future",{"rendered":91},"Science Needs A Better Way To Think About The Future",{"rendered":93,"protected":20},"\n\u003Cp>Our new \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.nature.com\u002Farticles\u002Fd41586-026-02231-y\">Nature Comment\u003C\u002Fa> introduces “\u003Cstrong>translational foresight\u003C\u002Fstrong>”: a framework for bringing futures methods into the everyday machinery of science.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Every research programme is, in one way or another, a bet on the future. When a university builds a new laboratory, when a funding agency commits millions to a research programme, when a medical school redesigns its curriculum, or when researchers decide which technologies deserve years of investigation, they are making assumptions about what the future will look like. They assume certain technologies will mature, that particular skills will become important, that regulators will accept new approaches, that patients and the public will trust them, and that infrastructure built today will still make sense years from now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Yet these assumptions are rarely made explicit. This is the problem we address in our new Comment published in Nature, “The science of foresight: how to future-proof your research.” Together with Tamás Kristóf, Josip Car, Joseph Sung and Tien Yin Wong, we argue that science needs a systematic way to examine the futures it is already implicitly betting on. We call this approach translational foresight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Not predicting the future, but preparing for it\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>The problem is not that scientists cannot predict the future. They should not be expected to. The future is inherently uncertain, particularly in rapidly evolving fields such as artificial intelligence, genomics, biotechnology and digital health. The problem is that scientific institutions often make long-term decisions while treating the assumptions behind those decisions as if they were fixed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>The COVID-19 pandemic offered an extreme example. Research organisations and healthcare systems suddenly had to accelerate vaccine development, expand telemedicine, move education online, redeploy healthcare professionals and deal with questions of public trust, surveillance and vaccination. Many of these challenges could not have been predicted in detail, but the possibility of a global health crisis, workforce disruption, rapidly scaling remote healthcare and widespread public distrust could certainly have been explored beforehand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Artificial intelligence presents a similar challenge today. Universities, healthcare institutions and research organisations already need to make decisions about AI validation, research integrity, workforce preparation, regulation and governance. They must do so before decades of evidence become available. Waiting for certainty is therefore not an option. The alternative is not prediction. It is foresight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Futures studies already has mature methods for systematically examining possible change. These include horizon scanning, scenario analysis, forecasting, backcasting and tools for exploring the second- and third-order consequences of emerging trends. Such approaches are widely used in policy, government and parts of industry, but they remain surprisingly peripheral to everyday scientific practice. \u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>\u003Cstrong>Our proposal is to bring these methods inside the scientific process itself.\u003C\u002Fstrong> Foresight should not sit somewhere outside science, producing reports about what the future might look like. It should help researchers decide what to investigate, fund, build, teach, validate and evaluate. That is what we mean by translational foresight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Translational medicine has done it before\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>There is an important historical parallel here. By the late twentieth century, biomedical science had become extraordinarily good at generating discoveries, but there was a growing recognition that scientific discoveries did not automatically translate into better patient outcomes. A gap existed between the laboratory and the clinic. That led to the rise of translational medicine and concepts such as “bench to bedside.” The scientific ecosystem gradually adapted. New funding programmes appeared, institutions dedicated to translational research were created, training programmes changed, and researchers increasingly considered how discoveries could move towards practical impact.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>We believe a similar gap exists today. Futures research already provides sophisticated ways to analyse uncertainty, emerging trends and alternative futures, but those outputs rarely translate into the mechanisms governing science itself. Hence the term translational foresight. The goal is to translate plausible futures into better scientific decisions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>One concern about futures thinking is that it can sound abstract. It does not have to be. Imagine a research group preparing a five-year grant application. Normally, the team proposes a research plan based on what its members currently know. With a foresight layer added, they might also ask what would happen if a competing technology developed much faster than expected, if regulation changed, if access to an essential dataset became restricted, if the platform on which the research depended became obsolete, or if public acceptance developed differently than expected.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>The team does not need to create a perfect prediction. Instead, it identifies which assumptions the project depends on and which signals would indicate that those assumptions are beginning to fail. The research plan becomes more adaptive as a result. That is a fundamentally different way of thinking about scientific robustness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>In our Nature Comment, we deliberately included practical methods that researchers could apply without becoming professional futurists. One is the Futures Wheel, which maps the direct and indirect consequences of a development. Take the statement that AI can now co-author scientific papers. What happens next, and what happens because of those consequences? Mapping those ripple effects can reveal opportunities, risks and unintended consequences that are easy to miss when examining only the technology itself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Another tool is scenario analysis. Instead of asking what will happen, researchers construct several plausible future environments and test whether their strategy works across them. Backcasting reverses the direction of thinking: researchers imagine a desired future outcome, perhaps the state of their discipline in 2035, and work backwards to identify what would need to happen to get there. We also describe a method we call Stump the Futurist, in which researchers actively try to break a future claim by identifying failure modes, missing variables and hidden assumptions. The point of all these exercises is not to make science speculative. It is almost the opposite. They force assumptions about the future to become explicit enough to be challenged.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Three steps towards translational foresight\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>We propose three broad changes to scientific practice. First, futures methods should become part of ordinary scientific workflows. Researchers could stress-test projects before submitting grants, examine the possible consequences of new technologies and revisit assumptions as new evidence appears. \u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Second, futures literacy should become part of scientific education. Researchers learn statistics because they need to interpret uncertainty in data, and they learn methodology because they need to design rigorous experiments. We argue that they should also learn how to reason systematically about uncertainty in the future. Futures literacy could eventually become a basic scientific competency.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Third, foresight should become institutionalised. Funding agencies, universities and research organisations could incorporate long-term assumptions and alternative futures into funding decisions, infrastructure planning and project evaluation. This is where the idea becomes much bigger than a workshop exercise. If funding systems begin asking researchers not only, “What do you expect to discover?” but also, “Under what future conditions would your assumptions stop being valid?”, the incentives of science itself start to change.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>This matters especially now because science has always had to deal with uncertainty, but the speed at which technological and societal conditions can transform is increasing. Artificial intelligence can reshape an entire research workflow within a few years. New biological tools can emerge faster than the regulatory structures surrounding them. Healthcare technologies can move from experimental to consumer products before institutions have decided how they should be evaluated. At the same time, scientific programmes themselves can take five, ten or twenty years to mature.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>I have spent much of my career trying to \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.jmir.org\u002F2024\u002F1\u002Fe57148\">make futures methods accessible\u003C\u002Fa> to medicine and healthcare. One recurring obstacle has been the misconception that thinking about the future means trying to predict it. It does not. The real goal is to improve decisions made today. A good foresight process does not tell researchers what the world will look like in 2035. It helps them understand which assumptions they are making about 2035, which of those assumptions matter most, how those assumptions might fail, and what they could do differently as a result.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>That is a much more useful ambition, and one that science can realistically adopt. Our Nature Comment ends with a sentence that captures the idea:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cblockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n\u003Cp>“The twentieth century taught science how to translate discovery into impact. The twenty-first century must teach it how to translate plausible futures into better scientific decisions.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003C\u002Fblockquote>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>That is what translational foresight is ultimately about: not predicting science, but future-proofing the way we do it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>\u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fmedia.nature.com\u002Fw1248\u002Fmagazine-assets\u002Fd41586-026-02231-y\u002Fd41586-026-02231-y_52981536.jpg?as=webp\">The Nature Comment: The science of foresight: how to future-proof your research, by Bertalan Meskó, Tamás Kristóf, Josip Car, Joseph Sung and Tien Yin Wong, published in Nature, Volume 655, 23 July 2026.\u003C\u002Fa>\u003C\u002Fp>\n",{"rendered":95,"protected":20},"\u003Cp>Our new Nature Comment introduces “translational foresight”: a framework for bringing futures methods into the everyday machinery of science. 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They produce actionable insights into the biological state of individuals, just like “general” biomarkers, but are collected through digital tools.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"has-text-align-left\">Here’s our summary of what digital biomarkers mean and how they will be used in the near future.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cfigure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\u003Cdiv class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n\u003Ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"One-Minute Challenge: Digital Biomarkers\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.youtube.com\u002Fembed\u002FG3MPHLabIcw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen>\u003C\u002Fiframe>\n\u003C\u002Fdiv>\u003C\u002Ffigure>\n\n\n\n\u003Ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003Cstrong>The appearance of user-generated big data in healthcare\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>In the last couple of years, Fitbit, Jawbone, Apple Health, Withings, Garmin, Sleep as Android, WIWE, MocaCare, Skeeper – in other words, fitness trackers, step counters, health apps, sleep sensors, pocket ECG, blood pressure or other health parameter measuring devices appeared out of nowhere. By now, they are generating an astounding amount of data about patients and individuals not getting patient care. That’s what digital biomarkers are about.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>According to \u003Ca rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.marketsandmarkets.com\u002FMarket-Reports\u002Fwearable-medical-device-market-81753973.html?gclid=CjwKCAiAmb7RBRATEiwA7kS8VNa5y7oFWGL6JgvR5HeH4-8NGxnVtm5W3mTby2ZNd0rGdwcPUxaDohoCLI8QAvD_BwE\" target=\"_blank\">Markets and Markets\u003C\u002Fa>, the global market for medical wearable devices is projected to reach $30.1 billion by 2026, with the US being the largest market. Meanwhile, \u003Ca rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.fortunebusinessinsights.com\u002Ffitness-tracker-market-103358\" target=\"_blank\">the global fitness wearable market\u003C\u002Fa> (including smartwatches, fitness bands, smart glasses and smart clothing among others) is projected to grow to $114.36 billion in 2028. What is probably even more telling than the above figures is this: according to \u003Ca rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.insiderintelligence.com\u002Finsights\u002Fwearable-technology-healthcare-medical-devices\u002F\" target=\"_blank\">research from Insider Intelligence\u003C\u002Fa>, more than 80% of US consumers are willing to wear fitness technology. No wonder \u003Ca rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.statista.com\u002Ftopics\u002F4393\u002Ffitness-and-activity-tracker\u002F#topicHeader__wrapper\" target=\"_blank\">over 530 million units\u003C\u002Fa> were shipped in 2021 globally.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>The exponential rise in data-generating devices naturally goes together with the growth of healthcare data. According to a \u003Ca rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.cloudangles.com\u002Fhealthcareutopia.html#:~:text=Over%20the%20few%20yeas%2C%20US,but%20it's%20also%20incredibly%20messy.\" target=\"_blank\">White Paper by Cloud Angels\u003C\u002Fa>, 2850 exabytes (one exabyte = one billion gigabytes) of health data were generated in 2021. Just to put this in context, the figure was 153 exabytes in 2013. The growth is… massive.  \u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>That data includes information from electronic medical records (medical imaging, patient history, etc.), genetic as well as patient-generated data. Even if looking only at the latter, the digital biomarkers themselves, that means an inconceivable amount of new information in the healthcare scene.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003Cstrong>Digital biomarkers decoded\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>From the above statistics, the boundaries of digital biomarkers could also be determined. \u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>X-rays or the results of a DNA test don’t belong to the area of digital biomarkers. On the other hand, Fitbit or Apple watch data does – fitness and wellness data constitutes a huge chunk of digital biomarkers, besides medical-grade information.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>The second important factor is the digital nature of data collection. Although a traditional blood test could result in insightful \u003Ca rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\u002Fpmc\u002Farticles\u002FPMC3078627\u002F\" target=\"_blank\">biomarkers\u003C\u002Fa>, they are not part of the digital universe.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Thus, the definition could be laid down as the following: \u003Cstrong>\u003Cem>digital biomarkers are data that consumers directly collect about health or disease management through digital health technologies to explain, influence and\u002For predict health-related outcomes.\u003C\u002Fem>\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>RockHealth says that \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Frockhealth.com\u002Freports\u002Fthe-emerging-influence-of-digital-biomarkers-on-healthcare\u002F\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">measured data only becomes a biomarker when it connects to a health-related outcome\u003C\u002Fa>. If the blood pressure values are linked to cardiovascular risks, for example, that’s the point where it gets interesting for research.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\u003Cdiv class=\"wp-block-image size-full wp-image-21211\">\n\u003Cfigure class=\"aligncenter\">\u003Cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"638\" height=\"373\" src=\"https:\u002F\u002F1712507217.rsc.cdn77.org\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2018\u002F07\u002Fdigital-biomarkers.jpg\" alt=\"digital biomarkers\" class=\"wp-image-21211\" srcset=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2018\u002F07\u002Fdigital-biomarkers.jpg 638w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2018\u002F07\u002Fdigital-biomarkers-512x299.jpg 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 638px) 100vw, 638px\" \u002F>\u003Cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Source: Brandon Bellinger: Continuous Digital Biomarkers from Wearable Devices\u003C\u002Ffigcaption>\u003C\u002Ffigure>\n\u003C\u002Fdiv>\n\n\n\u003Ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003Cstrong>The application of digital biomarkers\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>When paired with analytical tools, these large volumes of data can be leveraged to track trends and patterns for both individuals and populations. Medical research has already recognised the tremendous potential of digital biomarkers, and there are plenty of studies underway to understand disease and health better.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>For example, in February 2018, \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fevidation.com\u002F\">Evidation Health\u003C\u002Fa> \u003Ca rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.mobihealthnews.com\u002Fcontent\u002Fevidation-launches-large-study-develop-digital-biomarkers-chronic-pain\" target=\"_blank\">announced the launch of a 10,000-person chronic pain study\u003C\u002Fa>. The research aimed to quantify chronic pain and develop digital biomarkers for chronic pain severity, flare-ups and quality of life by using activity trackers, health apps, and other more traditional data points. In the year-long study, participants used Apple Watches, Garmins, and Android Watches. The results \u003Ca rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.medrxiv.org\u002Fcontent\u002F10.1101\u002F2021.07.14.21260523v1.full.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">can be found here\u003C\u002Fa>.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Another interesting read is \u003Ca rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.nature.com\u002Farticles\u002Fs41746-022-00593-x\" target=\"_blank\">this article\u003C\u002Fa> published in April 2022, discussing fitness tracker use in federally qualified health center patients. \u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Researchers started to look at elderly adults with dementia, and patients with Parkinson’s or Huntington’s through wearables, accelerometers, smartwatches, etc. Even \u003Ca rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.karger.com\u002FArticle\u002FFullText\u002F489224\" target=\"_blank\">the effect of digital pills was measured in a 2017 study\u003C\u002Fa>, and it turned out that digital medicines indeed constitute efficient means to track medication intake.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>The advancement of the past few years can be summarized \u003Ca rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fscitechdaily.com\u002Fcompact-wearable-lab-on-the-skin-continuously-monitors-glucose-alcohol-and-lactate\u002F\" target=\"_blank\">in a single report\u003C\u002Fa>: engineers at the University of California San Diego (UCSD) have developed a prototype of a wearable that can continuously monitor several health stats – glucose, alcohol, and lactate levels -simultaneously in real-time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>And we also have to mention one booming area: \u003Ca rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fyoutu.be\u002FdxqrtRkZqRk\" target=\"_blank\">vocal biomarkers\u003C\u002Fa>. Following the boost from the pandemic, today there are dozens of solutions that aim to diagnose the presence\u002Fseverity of certain conditions based on audio clues (eg: from the voice, breathing patterns or cough of a patient). There are studies on determining \u003Ca rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.frontiersin.org\u002Farticles\u002F10.3389\u002Ffcomp.2021.624694\u002Ffull\" target=\"_blank\">speech biomarkers in Alzheimer’s\u003C\u002Fa>, or \u003Ca rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\u002Fpmc\u002Farticles\u002FPMC8513517\u002F\" target=\"_blank\">detecting COVID\u003C\u002Fa> from voice\u002Fcough and breathing patterns or using \u003Ca rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fmdspiro.com\u002Fvoice-as-a-biomarker-for-chronic-obstructive-pulmonary-disease\u002F\" target=\"_blank\">voice as a biomarker for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease\u003C\u002Fa>.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003Cstrong>What does the (near) future bring?\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Digital biomarkers could significantly help in bringing healthcare from a reactive towards a more preventive approach, as researchers will not only be able to explain diseases better, but more and more data will be available to analyse what healthy, normal states signify and to predict future health outcomes. As a consequence, research into digital biomarkers will soar in the coming years. \u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>However, there are several challenges to overcome in the near future.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003Cli>Standardized solutions are needed to be able to compare studies carried out with digital biomarkers. When a clinical trial is conducted, the standardised procedure ensures that sampling means the same in every case, and thus results are comparable with other achievements. Regarding consumer-generated data, that’s not that evident. The framework in the case of measurements carried out with smartwatches or trackers could be completely different in each situation.\u003C\u002Fli>\n\n\n\n\u003Cli>The reliability of some instruments is also questionable as not every wearable or health sensor is FDA- or CE-approved.\u003C\u002Fli>\n\n\n\n\u003Cli>The details of the measurements could also be entirely different. An individual could measure ECG at home with five different tools. While the results will (should) be reasonably similar, the quality and details of the measurements differ significantly, which might be essential for the researcher.\u003C\u002Fli>\n\n\n\n\u003Cli>Privacy and more generally, regulatory issues also constitute a matter of concern. While the consumer or patient measures digital biomarkers at home and sends the data to the researchers, how could anyone make sure that it doesn’t get to unauthorized persons? How will data protection and privacy look like?\u003C\u002Fli>\n\u003C\u002Ful>\n\n\n\n\u003Ctable style=\"width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; background-color: #eee; border-top: 4px solid #444;\" cellpadding=\"10px\">\n\u003Ctbody>\n\u003Ctr>\n\u003Ctd style=\"width: 100%;\">\n\u003Cp>\u003Cstrong>At The Medical Futurist, we are building a community for making a bold vision about the future of healthcare reality today.\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Ciframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.youtube.com\u002Fembed\u002FFIbMejImnxs\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\">\u003C\u002Fiframe>\n\u003Cp>If you’d like to support this mission, we invite you to \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.patreon.com\u002Fthemedicalfuturist\">join The Medical Futurist Patreon Community\u003C\u002Fa>. 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Thank you.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003C\u002Ftr>\n\u003C\u002Ftbody>\n\u003C\u002Ftable>\n\u003Cp> \u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>\u003Ca href=\"http:\u002F\u002Feepurl.com\u002FZejiT\">\u003Cstrong>Subscribe To The Medical Futurist℠ Newsletter\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fa>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003Cli>News shaping the future of healthcare\u003C\u002Fli>\n\n\n\n\u003Cli>Advice on taking charge of your health\u003C\u002Fli>\n\n\n\n\u003Cli>Reviews of the latest health technology\u003C\u002Fli>\n\u003C\u002Ful>\n",{"rendered":221,"protected":20},"\u003Cp>The spread of wearable digital technologies in healthcare generating big data entailed the appearance of a new type of medical information. They produce actionable insights into the biological state of individuals, just as “general” biomarkers, but are collected through digital tools.\u003C\u002Fp>\n",47103,{"_acf_changed":20,"footnotes":26},[103,225],496,[227,228,229,230,231,232,233,234,235,236,237,238],975,976,977,206,978,207,979,289,980,361,373,606,[],[],[242,243,244,245,246,247,248,249,250,251,252,253,254,255],1723,1729,1883,1979,2029,3333,1571,3523,1681,3585,1683,5529,1693,1721,[257,88,110,32,111,112,33,115,258,259,260,261,262,263,264,265,266,267,268,269,270],"post-21210","category-health-sensors-trackers","tag-digital-biomarkers","tag-biomarkers","tag-biomarker","tag-digital","tag-health-research","tag-digital-health","tag-population-health","tag-innovation","tag-preventive-health","tag-prediction","tag-research","tag-prevention",{"id":222,"alt_text":272,"caption":26,"description":26,"media_type":117,"media_details":273,"post":304,"source_url":305},"AI algorithm research topic digital health",{"width":274,"height":275,"file":276,"sizes":277,"image_meta":303},1920,1080,"2022\u002F08\u002Ftmf_article_331-01.png",{"medium":278,"large":283,"thumbnail":288,"medium_large":292,"1536x1536":293,"2048x2048":298},{"file":279,"width":280,"height":281,"mime-type":128,"source_url":282},"tmf_article_331-01-370x208.png","370","208","https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2022\u002F08\u002Ftmf_article_331-01-370x208.png",{"file":284,"width":285,"height":286,"mime-type":128,"source_url":287},"tmf_article_331-01-768x432.png","768","432","https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2022\u002F08\u002Ftmf_article_331-01-768x432.png",{"file":289,"width":290,"height":290,"mime-type":128,"source_url":291},"tmf_article_331-01-150x150.png","150","https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2022\u002F08\u002Ftmf_article_331-01-150x150.png",{"file":284,"width":285,"height":286,"mime-type":128,"source_url":287},{"file":294,"width":295,"height":296,"mime-type":128,"source_url":297},"tmf_article_331-01-1536x864.png","1536","864","https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2022\u002F08\u002Ftmf_article_331-01-1536x864.png",{"file":299,"width":300,"height":301,"mime-type":128,"source_url":302},"tmf_article_331-01-2048x1152.png","2048","1152","https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2022\u002F08\u002Ftmf_article_331-01-2048x1152.png",{"aperture":144,"credit":26,"camera":26,"caption":26,"created_timestamp":144,"copyright":26,"focal_length":144,"iso":144,"shutter_speed":144,"title":26,"orientation":144},47095,"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2022\u002F08\u002Ftmf_article_331-01.png",{"related_posts":20,"related_posts_footer":307,"cta_type":311,"cta_color":26,"subtitle":26,"related_books":312,"key_takeaways":316},[308,309,310],15248,14445,20735,"subscribe",[313,314,315],30419,47427,24761,[317,319],{"title":318},"\u003Cp>The spread of wearable digital technologies in healthcare generating big data entailed the appearance of a new type of medical information.\u003C\u002Fp>\n",{"title":320},"\u003Cp>They produce actionable insights into the biological state of individuals, just as “general” biomarkers, but are collected through digital tools.\u003C\u002Fp>\n",{"yoast_wpseo_title":322,"yoast_wpseo_metadesc":323,"yoast_wpseo_canonical":215},"What Do Digital Biomarkers Mean? - The Medical Futurist","Digital Biomarkers: The Medical Futurist's summary of what digital biomarkers mean and how they will be used in the future to track trends.",{"self":325,"collection":330,"about":332,"author":334,"replies":336,"version-history":339,"predecessor-version":343,"wp:featuredmedia":347,"wp:attachment":350,"wp:term":353,"curies":364},[326],{"href":327,"targetHints":328},"https:\u002F\u002Fapi.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-json\u002Fwp\u002Fv2\u002Fposts\u002F21210",{"allow":329},[45],[331],{"href":165},[333],{"href":168},[335],{"embeddable":54,"href":171},[337],{"embeddable":54,"href":338},"https:\u002F\u002Fapi.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-json\u002Fwp\u002Fv2\u002Fcomments?post=21210",[340],{"count":341,"href":342},22,"https:\u002F\u002Fapi.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-json\u002Fwp\u002Fv2\u002Fposts\u002F21210\u002Frevisions",[344],{"id":345,"href":346},58021,"https:\u002F\u002Fapi.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-json\u002Fwp\u002Fv2\u002Fposts\u002F21210\u002Frevisions\u002F58021",[348],{"embeddable":54,"href":349},"https:\u002F\u002Fapi.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-json\u002Fwp\u002Fv2\u002Fmedia\u002F47103",[351],{"href":352},"https:\u002F\u002Fapi.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-json\u002Fwp\u002Fv2\u002Fmedia?parent=21210",[354,356,358,360,362],{"taxonomy":191,"embeddable":54,"href":355},"https:\u002F\u002Fapi.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-json\u002Fwp\u002Fv2\u002Fcategories?post=21210",{"taxonomy":194,"embeddable":54,"href":357},"https:\u002F\u002Fapi.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-json\u002Fwp\u002Fv2\u002Ftags?post=21210",{"taxonomy":197,"embeddable":54,"href":359},"https:\u002F\u002Fapi.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-json\u002Fwp\u002Fv2\u002Fproject_category?post=21210",{"taxonomy":200,"embeddable":54,"href":361},"https:\u002F\u002Fapi.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-json\u002Fwp\u002Fv2\u002Fcontact_email_category?post=21210",{"taxonomy":72,"embeddable":54,"href":363},"https:\u002F\u002Fapi.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-json\u002Fwp\u002Fv2\u002Fyst_prominent_words?post=21210",[365],{"name":76,"href":77,"templated":54},{"id":367,"date":368,"date_gmt":369,"guid":370,"modified":372,"modified_gmt":373,"slug":374,"status":13,"type":88,"link":375,"title":376,"content":378,"excerpt":380,"author":382,"featured_media":383,"comment_status":25,"ping_status":25,"sticky":54,"template":26,"format":98,"meta":384,"categories":385,"tags":389,"project_category":390,"contact_email_category":391,"yst_prominent_words":392,"class_list":397,"better_featured_image":402,"acf":435,"yoast_meta":441,"_links":443},60779,"2026-05-22T22:00:00","2026-05-22T20:00:00",{"rendered":371},"https:\u002F\u002Fmedicalfuturist.com\u002F?post_id=60779&_wpnonce=c0f6b55287&status=auto-draft&type=post","2026-05-25T09:19:54","2026-05-25T07:19:54","what-is-digital-blood-testing","https:\u002F\u002Fmedicalfuturist.com\u002Fwhat-is-digital-blood-testing",{"rendered":377},"What Is Digital Blood Testing?",{"rendered":379,"protected":20},"\n\u003Cp>In healthcare, blood tests are routine procedures that involve taking a patient’s blood and assessing it. The need for \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.nhs.uk\u002Ftests-and-treatments\u002Fblood-tests\u002F\">blood tests varies\u003C\u002Fa>, ranging from checking the blood glucose level to checking how well a condition is being managed via medications.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Of course, in the digital health era, it is quasi-expected for blood testing to take a digital spin. Recent developments have indeed indicated that the concept of “digital blood testing” will soon be a reality. We take a look at the implications in this article.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003Cstrong>What is digital blood testing?\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Traditional blood tests \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.nhs.uk\u002Ftests-and-treatments\u002Fblood-tests\u002F\">have involved\u003C\u002Fa> taking a blood sample that is sent to a lab for further analysis. The results are indicative of the patient’s health status at that point in time. If clinicians need to assess the status again, they would need to repeat the process. From there, they can establish trends and patterns, for example, the efficacy of a drug. \u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>However, this process is not very practical and, in cases where a patient’s condition is evolving rapidly, it \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.nature.com\u002Farticles\u002Fs41587-026-03010-w\">can lead to\u003C\u002Fa> sub-optimal decision-making and poorer outcomes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\u003Cdiv class=\"wp-block-image\">\n\u003Cfigure class=\"aligncenter size-large\">\u003Cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2024\u002F01\u002Ftmf_article_397_blood-draw-768x432.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-54535\" srcset=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2024\u002F01\u002Ftmf_article_397_blood-draw-768x432.png 768w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2024\u002F01\u002Ftmf_article_397_blood-draw-370x208.png 370w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2024\u002F01\u002Ftmf_article_397_blood-draw-1536x864.png 1536w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2024\u002F01\u002Ftmf_article_397_blood-draw-2048x1152.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \u002F>\u003C\u002Ffigure>\n\u003C\u002Fdiv>\n\n\n\u003Cp>Digital blood testing aims to address such limitations. By relying on specialised sensors, biomarkers that have typically been detected in the blood are instead analysed in real-time and even continuously from \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fmy.clevelandclinic.org\u002Fhealth\u002Farticles\u002Fcontinuous-glucose-monitoring-cgm\">the skin’s interstitial fluid\u003C\u002Fa> or the fluid in the spaces around your cells. \u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>\u003Cstrong>Such approaches rely on skin patches with micro-needles that come into contact with the patient’s interstitial fluid. With sensors embedded in the needles and\u002For patch, the biomarker is analysed, and the data is stored on the patch, ready to be transferred wirelessly.\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003Cstrong>Uses of digital blood testing\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>While digital blood testing is a \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.mobihealthnews.com\u002Fnews\u002Fanz\u002Fdigital-blood-testing-now-hand\">rather new concept\u003C\u002Fa>, there are already practical examples that are materialising the vision. \u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Continuous biomarker monitoring and wirelessly transferring data have become an increasingly popular approach with continuous glucose monitoring. The process is \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fmedicalfuturist.com\u002Fwhere-does-diabetes-technology-stand\u002F\">moving away\u003C\u002Fa> from needles and finger pricks with skin patches like Abbott’s \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.freestyle.abbott\u002F\">Freestyle Libre\u003C\u002Fa> and \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.dexcom.com\u002Fen-GB\u002Fdexcom-g7-cgm-system\">Dexcom G7\u003C\u002Fa>. Their sensors rely on glucose level measurements in the skin’s interstitial fluid. \u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Another, more ambitious, example comes from digital health company \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.nutromics.com\u002F\">Nutromics\u003C\u002Fa>. Their Lab on a Patch is meant to be worn directly on patients’ skin. From there, the embedded microneedles coated with synthetic DNA-based sensors can monitor specific targets in interstitial fluid and wirelessly communicate the results. The company aims to use their device across medical disciplines, from infectious disease to cardiology. \u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cfigure class=\"wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\u003Cdiv class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n\u003Ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Nutromics Patch - How it Works\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.youtube.com\u002Fembed\u002F-Ci0Pic-HdM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen>\u003C\u002Fiframe>\n\u003C\u002Fdiv>\u003C\u002Ffigure>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>While their product is still in development, Nutromics recently shared \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.nature.com\u002Farticles\u002Fs41587-026-03010-w\">findings from a pilot trial\u003C\u002Fa> using their technology. In it, their patch was used to monitor levels of the antibiotic vancomycin from interstitial fluid. The concentration of such drugs requires close monitoring to ensure their safe and effective dosing. Blood sampling can be challenging due to the time-sensitive nature of the monitoring required.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>In the pilot, Nutromics’ patch was shown to address this issue by being able to capture the drug’s levels over 24 hours in 5-minute intervals. The study also found the use of the patch to be safe and, compared to traditional blood draws, more comfortable. \u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003Cstrong>The impact of digital blood testing\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>The limited number of practical examples of digital blood testing is indicative of the nascency of the concept. However, it is showing promise, as exemplified by a \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.mordorintelligence.com\u002Findustry-reports\u002Fcontinuous-glucose-monitoring-market\">growth in\u003C\u002Fa> continuous glucose monitoring patches in recent years. \u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Digital blood testing solutions can address more than technical challenges. They also offer a practical edge. In particular, fear of needles is very real, affecting \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.guysandstthomas.nhs.uk\u002Fhealth-information\u002Fneedle-phobia-and-overcoming-your-fear\">at least 1 in 10 people\u003C\u002Fa>. By means of a patch that overrides the need for regular blood sampling, biological assessments are made more convenient and accessible. This approach \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.mobihealthnews.com\u002Fnews\u002Fanz\u002Fdigital-blood-testing-now-hand\">also holds promise\u003C\u002Fa> for chronic disease management and at-home care.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>While a future with digital blood testing is shaping up, there will likely still be the need for actual blood tests, such as to assess blood cells. These might also evolve to be less invasive and, as with digital blood tests, they will need to undergo clinical trials to ascertain their safety and efficacy. \u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>\u003Cem>Written by Dr. Bertalan Meskó & Dr. Pranavsingh Dhunnoo\u003C\u002Fem>\u003C\u002Fp>\n",{"rendered":381,"protected":20},"\u003Cp>In healthcare, blood tests are routine procedures that involve taking a patient’s blood and assessing it. The need for blood tests varies, ranging from checking […]\u003C\u002Fp>\n",16,22249,{"_acf_changed":20,"footnotes":26},[101,386,103,387,388],500,521,497,[],[],[],[393,250,394,395,396],1617,2875,2903,5013,[398,88,110,32,111,112,33,113,399,115,400,401],"post-60779","category-biotechnology","category-future-medicine","category-portable-diagnostics",{"id":383,"alt_text":403,"caption":26,"description":26,"media_type":117,"media_details":404,"post":433,"source_url":434},"blood testing",{"width":405,"height":406,"file":407,"sizes":408,"image_meta":431},1921,1081,"2018\u002F11\u002F045_bloodtesting.gif",{"medium":409,"large":413,"thumbnail":417,"medium_large":420,"1536x1536":421,"large_old_512x288":426},{"file":410,"width":126,"height":127,"mime-type":411,"source_url":412},"045_bloodtesting-370x208.gif","image\u002Fgif","https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2018\u002F11\u002F045_bloodtesting-370x208.gif",{"file":414,"width":133,"height":415,"mime-type":411,"source_url":416},"045_bloodtesting-768x432.gif",432,"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2018\u002F11\u002F045_bloodtesting-768x432.gif",{"file":418,"width":139,"height":139,"mime-type":411,"source_url":419},"045_bloodtesting-150x150.gif","https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2018\u002F11\u002F045_bloodtesting-150x150.gif",{"file":414,"width":133,"height":415,"mime-type":411,"source_url":416},{"file":422,"width":423,"height":424,"mime-type":411,"source_url":425},"045_bloodtesting-1536x864.gif",1536,864,"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2018\u002F11\u002F045_bloodtesting-1536x864.gif",{"file":427,"width":428,"height":429,"mime-type":411,"source_url":430},"045_bloodtesting-512x288.gif",512,288,"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2018\u002F11\u002F045_bloodtesting-512x288.gif",{"aperture":144,"credit":26,"camera":26,"caption":26,"created_timestamp":144,"copyright":26,"focal_length":144,"iso":144,"shutter_speed":144,"title":26,"orientation":144,"keywords":432},[],22248,"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2018\u002F11\u002F045_bloodtesting.gif",{"subtitle":26,"key_takeaways":436,"cta_type":26,"cta_color":26,"related_books":20,"related_posts_footer":20,"related_posts":20},[437,439],{"title":438},"\u003Cp>Digital blood testing is a relatively new concept that involves alternative, technologically-enhanced ways to test for biomarkers that typically rely on blood sampling.\u003C\u002Fp>\n",{"title":440},"\u003Cp>There are already practical examples of digital blood testing, and new research indicates a promising future for this approach.\u003C\u002Fp>\n",{"yoast_wpseo_title":442,"yoast_wpseo_metadesc":26,"yoast_wpseo_canonical":375},"What Is Digital Blood Testing? - The Medical Futurist",{"self":444,"collection":449,"about":451,"author":453,"replies":456,"version-history":459,"predecessor-version":462,"wp:featuredmedia":466,"wp:attachment":469,"wp:term":472,"curies":483},[445],{"href":446,"targetHints":447},"https:\u002F\u002Fapi.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-json\u002Fwp\u002Fv2\u002Fposts\u002F60779",{"allow":448},[45],[450],{"href":165},[452],{"href":168},[454],{"embeddable":54,"href":455},"https:\u002F\u002Fapi.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-json\u002Fwp\u002Fv2\u002Fusers\u002F16",[457],{"embeddable":54,"href":458},"https:\u002F\u002Fapi.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-json\u002Fwp\u002Fv2\u002Fcomments?post=60779",[460],{"count":177,"href":461},"https:\u002F\u002Fapi.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-json\u002Fwp\u002Fv2\u002Fposts\u002F60779\u002Frevisions",[463],{"id":464,"href":465},60791,"https:\u002F\u002Fapi.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-json\u002Fwp\u002Fv2\u002Fposts\u002F60779\u002Frevisions\u002F60791",[467],{"embeddable":54,"href":468},"https:\u002F\u002Fapi.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-json\u002Fwp\u002Fv2\u002Fmedia\u002F22249",[470],{"href":471},"https:\u002F\u002Fapi.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-json\u002Fwp\u002Fv2\u002Fmedia?parent=60779",[473,475,477,479,481],{"taxonomy":191,"embeddable":54,"href":474},"https:\u002F\u002Fapi.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-json\u002Fwp\u002Fv2\u002Fcategories?post=60779",{"taxonomy":194,"embeddable":54,"href":476},"https:\u002F\u002Fapi.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-json\u002Fwp\u002Fv2\u002Ftags?post=60779",{"taxonomy":197,"embeddable":54,"href":478},"https:\u002F\u002Fapi.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-json\u002Fwp\u002Fv2\u002Fproject_category?post=60779",{"taxonomy":200,"embeddable":54,"href":480},"https:\u002F\u002Fapi.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-json\u002Fwp\u002Fv2\u002Fcontact_email_category?post=60779",{"taxonomy":72,"embeddable":54,"href":482},"https:\u002F\u002Fapi.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-json\u002Fwp\u002Fv2\u002Fyst_prominent_words?post=60779",[484],{"name":76,"href":77,"templated":54},{"id":486,"date":487,"date_gmt":488,"guid":489,"modified":491,"modified_gmt":492,"slug":493,"status":13,"type":88,"link":494,"title":495,"content":497,"excerpt":499,"author":96,"featured_media":501,"comment_status":25,"ping_status":25,"sticky":54,"template":26,"format":98,"meta":502,"categories":503,"tags":504,"project_category":509,"contact_email_category":510,"yst_prominent_words":511,"class_list":515,"better_featured_image":521,"acf":550,"yoast_meta":563,"_links":565},55683,"2026-05-11T10:35:31","2026-05-11T08:35:31",{"rendered":490},"https:\u002F\u002Fmedicalfuturist.com\u002F?post_id=55683&_wpnonce=75c5bf66e8&status=auto-draft&type=post","2026-05-11T10:35:32","2026-05-11T08:35:32","ozempic-and-other-weight-loss-drugs-will-only-work-with-digital-health","https:\u002F\u002Fmedicalfuturist.com\u002Fozempic-and-other-weight-loss-drugs-will-only-work-with-digital-health",{"rendered":496},"Ozempic And Other Weight Loss Drugs Will Only Work With Digital Health",{"rendered":498,"protected":20},"\n\u003Cp>Weight loss injections are now widely used as miracle drugs for effortless skinniness. But without digital health, they just won’t work in the long run. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the \u003Ca rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.fda.gov\u002Fnews-events\u002Fpress-announcements\u002Ffda-approves-new-drug-treatment-chronic-weight-management-first-2014\" target=\"_blank\">FDA, approved Wegovy, a semaglutide injection for chronic weight management\u003C\u002Fa> in adults with obesity or overweight with at least one weight-related condition for use in addition to a reduced calorie diet and increased physical activity in 2021. \u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Semaglutide was originally used for the treatment of type 2 diabetes, and was found to have a major lucky side effect: being very effective in assisting weight loss. Semaglutide injections are sold under different brand names: Ozempic and Rybelsus are supposed to be prescribed to diabetes patients, while Wegovy was specifically developed for treating obesity. \u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>These drugs belong to the group of GLP-1 receptor agonists, a category everybody just calls weight loss injections.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The miracle-drug epidemic\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>In the past few years, Ozempic (and the rest) has become a household name for the wealthy families of the most developed countries. It is best known as the miracle drug that makes you skinny without any effort, something that you can easily lay your hands on if you are ok with paying the $1000+ monthly price of moderate appetite. \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.theverge.com\u002F23878992\u002Fro-ozempic-subway-ads-telehealth-weight-loss-drugs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Regardless of whether you are supposed to get the injections\u003C\u002Fa> from the medical point of view.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>How come these drugs became a magic injection epidemic marketed by 19-year-old influencers on TikTok and A-list Hollywood celebrities? Legends from Oprah Winfrey to Whoopi Goldberg, from Al Roker to Elon Musk \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fpeople.com\u002Fcelebrities-ozempic-wegovy-what-theyve-said-7104926\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">have an opinion on the issue\u003C\u002Fa>, and it’s almost impossible to keep track of the dozens (or hundreds) who openly speak about using Ozempic to lose or manage weight. \u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>The issue is a trending topic on all platforms, the #ozempic hashtag has well over a billion views on TikTok, where \u003Ca rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.mmm-online.com\u002Fhome\u002Fchannel\u002Fmeet-tiktoks-glp-1-influencers-ozempic-wegovy-mounjaro\u002F#:~:text=Influencers%20from%20Kim%20Kardashian%20and,such%20rumors%20on%20social%20media.\" target=\"_blank\">GLP-1 influencers\u003C\u002Fa> share their experiences with the audience. They have tens or hundreds of thousands of followers, and they don’t rush to disclose what kinds of sponsorships are \u003Ca rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\u002F\u002Ffortune.com\u002F2023\u002F09\u002F19\u002Finside-ozempic-tiktok-weight-loss-influencers-hidden-economy-telehealth-cash-drug-discounts-mounjaro-glp1-wegovy\u002F\" target=\"_blank\">behind their weight loss content\u003C\u002Fa> and often fail to mention potential side effects.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>But the hype is not only visible on individual levels. In 2023, \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.fiercehealthcare.com\u002Fdigital-health\u002Fweightwatchers-acquisition-sequence-allows-expansion-remote-prescribing-hot-weight\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">WeightWatchers acquired the telehealth company Sequence\u003C\u002Fa>. Soon after the company\u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Ftime.com\u002F6464785\u002Fweightwatchers-prescribing-weight-loss-drugs\u002F\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">also launched WeightWatchers Clinic\u003C\u002Fa>, a platform where clients – who qualify – get prescription weight loss medication. Quite an addition to WW’s traditional focus on nutrition and exercise. \u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Ozempic alone won’t be enough in the long run\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>However, if you are willing to see a little beyond the borders of fairyland, it is obvious that the miracle drug narrative should be taken with a grain of salt. Quite a few people talk about how stopping Ozempic makes you immediately gain back the lost weight, including \u003Ca rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.eonline.com\u002Fnews\u002F1397394\u002Fwhy-dr-terry-dubrow-says-he-will-definitely-give-ozempic-another-try\" target=\"_blank\">Dr. Terry Dubrow\u003C\u002Fa> or \u003Ca rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fpeople.com\u002Fhealth\u002Fremi-bader-says-she-gained-double-the-weight-back-after-stopping-weight-loss-drug-ozempic\u002F\" target=\"_blank\">Remi Bader\u003C\u002Fa>. Not to mention others who openly discuss the uncomfortable side effects they experienced with these treatments, like \u003Ca rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.youtube.com\u002Fwatch?v=4QZ6t9_4IYo\" target=\"_blank\">Amy Schumer\u003C\u002Fa> or \u003Ca rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fpeople.com\u002Fstephen-fry-ozempic-recalls-throwing-up-five-times-a-day-8612378\" target=\"_blank\">Stephen Fry\u003C\u002Fa>. \u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>“There are a million ways to lose weight, why not do it through something that isn’t as boring as working out? And the people who hate on it the most are the people who are secretly doing it or pissed off that they can’t afford it.” – said \u003Ca rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.eonline.com\u002Fnews\u002F1395259\u002Fkelly-osbourne-shares-why-she-supports-the-ozempic-trend\" target=\"_blank\">Kelly Osborne\u003C\u002Fa>. And her statement is the best illustration of where the whole Ozempic\u002FWegovy hype went wrong. \u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cfigure class=\"wp-block-image\">\u003Cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\u002F\u002Flh7-us.googleusercontent.com\u002FfSzw2wjvG8sOjqXxMLIWm-Eo7MKEQsbgOBPzHkp31UBxpkg--mKXPS-e_dBAdPIFeJHfubgg3YBzKXfOByxg25sCRELZEkItSlQiGXpLKoKoGZQsyqShQVXvJaVTSmRxt9DEUAGggbxTU_BN0KyDYbs\" alt=\"\"\u002F>\u003C\u002Ffigure>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Wegovy was approved for weight loss \u003Cstrong>in addition to a reduced-calorie diet and increased physical activity\u003C\u002Fstrong>. Which is certainly not as appealing as the “\u003Cem>do nothing and get skinny” \u003C\u002Fem>narrative.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">It should be packaged with a digital health solution\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>The hype around Ozempic often overshadows a crucial point: sustainable weight management goes far beyond simply suppressing appetite with medication. This is where digital health solutions come in, empowering people to build long-lasting, healthy habits and personalised support systems that make medication truly effective. We already wrote about \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fmedicalfuturist.com\u002F71-ways-digital-health-technologies-help-fight-obesity\u002F\">7+1 Ways Digital Health Technologies Help Fight Obesity\u003C\u002Fa> a few years ago, and technology has improved a lot since! \u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>We have such a \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fmedicalfuturist.com\u002Fthe-wearable-health-tracker-landscape-18-devices-on-18-body-parts\">plethora of wearables \u003C\u002Fa>with health insights attached. Tracking sleep or steps taken, calories burned, and workouts completed, users see their progress in real time. They can stay motivated and improve their fitness levels by setting daily goals and reminders. Fitness apps often include tutorials, workouts, and community support, making the exercise journey accessible and engaging.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cfigure class=\"wp-block-image\">\u003Cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\u002F\u002Flh7-us.googleusercontent.com\u002FvFqp6miE7rbAPnl-zDsNx-VwJiAXOuW6t6sDP0QI4tcX2MyljQdJt5RvaVRDWtkgzeqTdSosXNnAXPaghghpDLwclJo8WS9xPj-sNk-v9-5bwD1AQGRyTobLIcB3nZD1dqvxfJRmzB1Dkqi4R9UYTLY\" alt=\"\"\u002F>\u003C\u002Ffigure>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Diet apps are another crucial tool, with features like calorie tracking and detailed nutrient breakdowns. They demystify the process of eating a reduced-calorie diet, empowering users to make informed food choices. \u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Meanwhile, emerging technologies like \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fmedicalfuturist.com\u002Fone-microbiome-two-tests-lets-compare-atlas-and-thryve\">microbiome \u003C\u002Fa>tests provide insight into our unique gut bacteria, potentially revealing imbalances that could make weight loss harder. Results from these tests could be used to develop personalised dietary recommendations in the future. And \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fmedicalfuturist.com\u002Fgene-pathway-analysis-in-action-3x4-dna-test-review\">DTC genetic tests\u003C\u002Fa>, while still a developing field, can shed light on how our bodies process food, paving the way for \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fmedicalfuturist.com\u002Fthe-global-nutrigenomics-landscape\">nutrigenomics\u003C\u002Fa> – the potential to tailor dietary advice based on our specific genetic makeup.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>The ‘miracle drug’ narrative around Ozempic is dangerously misleading. While GLP-1 agonists can be a helpful tool, sustainable weight management requires a multifaceted approach. Digital health solutions offer the personalizósation, tracking, and support needed to create the healthy habits that make long-term success possible. It’s time to shift the focus from quick fixes to true healthcare technology.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>As proof of the above-mentioned reasons, MyFitnessPal announced a new set of tools and content \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.mobihealthnews.com\u002Fnews\u002Fnutrition-app-myfitnesspal-announces-tools-glp-1-medication-support\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">to support members taking GLP-1 medications\u003C\u002Fa> by helping them maintain proper nutrition and consistency while experiencing weight loss.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cblockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n\u003Cp>“Members will have access to a library of exercise videos to help maintain muscle, along with encouragement to eat and log high quality, nutrient-dense food to support the development of consistency and lasting healthy behaviors.” – the \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.prnewswire.com\u002Fnews-releases\u002Fmyfitnesspal-announces-tools-and-content-to-support-the-health-and-wellness-of-members-on-glp-1-medications-302124616.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">company statement\u003C\u002Fa> says. \u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003C\u002Fblockquote>\n\n\n\n\u003Cblockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n\u003Cp>“The weight loss industry is rapidly evolving with GLP-1 medications at the forefront, but still little is known about the nutritional guidelines and wellness recommendations this cohort of patients should be following,” says Maya Feller, MS, RD, CDN, Founder and Lead Dietitian at Maya Feller Nutrition and MyFitnessPal Scientific Advisory Council Member. \u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003C\u002Fblockquote>\n\n\n\n\u003Cblockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n\u003Cp>“My biggest concern is that patients are accessing these medications without additional guidance on nutrition, exercise, mental health, or any other lifestyle changes that should be considered when taking a prescription medication.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003C\u002Fblockquote>\n",{"rendered":500,"protected":20},"\u003Cp>Ozempic alone doesn’t promote sustainable weight management and often results in weight regain after discontinuation. If you want long-term success, you need assistance from the digital health arsenal\u003C\u002Fp>\n",55727,{"_acf_changed":20,"footnotes":26},[103],[505,506,507,508],7935,7937,1165,1537,[],[],[393,512,513,514],1885,3005,4815,[516,88,110,32,111,112,33,115,517,518,519,520],"post-55683","tag-ozempic","tag-wagevy","tag-weight-management","tag-weight-loss",{"id":501,"alt_text":522,"caption":26,"description":523,"media_type":117,"media_details":524,"post":486,"source_url":549},"Ozempic, weight loss, injection, overweight, diet","Ozempic, weight loss, injection",{"width":525,"height":526,"file":527,"filesize":528,"sizes":529,"image_meta":547},1820,1024,"2024\u002F04\u002Ftmf_article_411ai.png",635483,{"medium":530,"large":534,"thumbnail":538,"medium_large":542,"1536x1536":543},{"file":531,"width":126,"height":127,"mime-type":128,"filesize":532,"source_url":533},"tmf_article_411ai-370x208.png",60643,"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2024\u002F04\u002Ftmf_article_411ai-370x208.png",{"file":535,"width":133,"height":415,"mime-type":128,"filesize":536,"source_url":537},"tmf_article_411ai-768x432.png",169234,"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2024\u002F04\u002Ftmf_article_411ai-768x432.png",{"file":539,"width":139,"height":139,"mime-type":128,"filesize":540,"source_url":541},"tmf_article_411ai-150x150.png",22868,"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2024\u002F04\u002Ftmf_article_411ai-150x150.png",{"file":535,"width":133,"height":415,"mime-type":128,"filesize":536,"source_url":537},{"file":544,"width":423,"height":424,"mime-type":128,"filesize":545,"source_url":546},"tmf_article_411ai-1536x864.png",424174,"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2024\u002F04\u002Ftmf_article_411ai-1536x864.png",{"aperture":144,"credit":26,"camera":26,"caption":26,"created_timestamp":144,"copyright":26,"focal_length":144,"iso":144,"shutter_speed":144,"title":26,"orientation":144,"keywords":548},[],"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2024\u002F04\u002Ftmf_article_411ai.png",{"cta_type":311,"cta_color":26,"related_books":551,"related_posts_footer":554,"related_posts":20,"subtitle":26,"key_takeaways":558},[552,314,553],34151,55605,[555,556,557],55459,54887,55033,[559,561],{"title":560},"\u003Cp>The “miracle drug” narrative surrounding Ozempic dangerously oversimplifies sustainable weight management, potentially leading to disappointment and weight regain when the medication is stopped.\u003C\u002Fp>\n",{"title":562},"\u003Cp>Ozempic and similar GLP-1 agonists should be viewed as tools within a more comprehensive weight management approach, not as a magic solution that guarantees lasting results without effort.\u003C\u002Fp>\n",{"yoast_wpseo_title":496,"yoast_wpseo_metadesc":564,"yoast_wpseo_canonical":494},"Ozempic alone doesn't promote sustainable weight management and often results in weight regain after discontinuation. Digital health comes to the rescue.",{"self":566,"collection":571,"about":573,"author":575,"replies":577,"version-history":580,"predecessor-version":584,"wp:featuredmedia":588,"wp:attachment":591,"wp:term":594,"curies":605},[567],{"href":568,"targetHints":569},"https:\u002F\u002Fapi.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-json\u002Fwp\u002Fv2\u002Fposts\u002F55683",{"allow":570},[45],[572],{"href":165},[574],{"href":168},[576],{"embeddable":54,"href":171},[578],{"embeddable":54,"href":579},"https:\u002F\u002Fapi.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-json\u002Fwp\u002Fv2\u002Fcomments?post=55683",[581],{"count":582,"href":583},15,"https:\u002F\u002Fapi.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-json\u002Fwp\u002Fv2\u002Fposts\u002F55683\u002Frevisions",[585],{"id":586,"href":587},60727,"https:\u002F\u002Fapi.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-json\u002Fwp\u002Fv2\u002Fposts\u002F55683\u002Frevisions\u002F60727",[589],{"embeddable":54,"href":590},"https:\u002F\u002Fapi.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-json\u002Fwp\u002Fv2\u002Fmedia\u002F55727",[592],{"href":593},"https:\u002F\u002Fapi.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-json\u002Fwp\u002Fv2\u002Fmedia?parent=55683",[595,597,599,601,603],{"taxonomy":191,"embeddable":54,"href":596},"https:\u002F\u002Fapi.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-json\u002Fwp\u002Fv2\u002Fcategories?post=55683",{"taxonomy":194,"embeddable":54,"href":598},"https:\u002F\u002Fapi.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-json\u002Fwp\u002Fv2\u002Ftags?post=55683",{"taxonomy":197,"embeddable":54,"href":600},"https:\u002F\u002Fapi.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-json\u002Fwp\u002Fv2\u002Fproject_category?post=55683",{"taxonomy":200,"embeddable":54,"href":602},"https:\u002F\u002Fapi.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-json\u002Fwp\u002Fv2\u002Fcontact_email_category?post=55683",{"taxonomy":72,"embeddable":54,"href":604},"https:\u002F\u002Fapi.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-json\u002Fwp\u002Fv2\u002Fyst_prominent_words?post=55683",[606],{"name":76,"href":77,"templated":54},{"id":608,"date":609,"date_gmt":610,"guid":611,"modified":613,"modified_gmt":614,"slug":615,"status":13,"type":88,"link":616,"title":617,"content":619,"excerpt":621,"author":382,"featured_media":623,"comment_status":25,"ping_status":25,"sticky":54,"template":26,"format":98,"meta":624,"categories":625,"tags":630,"project_category":642,"contact_email_category":647,"yst_prominent_words":648,"class_list":658,"better_featured_image":679,"acf":697,"yoast_meta":709,"_links":711},47227,"2026-04-30T10:23:02","2026-04-30T08:23:02",{"rendered":612},"https:\u002F\u002Fmedicalfuturist.com\u002F?post_id=47227&_wpnonce=2100cd11c6&status=auto-draft&type=post","2026-04-30T10:23:05","2026-04-30T08:23:05","5-trends-that-will-determine-the-hospital-from-the-future","https:\u002F\u002Fmedicalfuturist.com\u002F5-trends-that-will-determine-the-hospital-from-the-future",{"rendered":618},"5 Trends That Will Determine The Hospital From The Future",{"rendered":620,"protected":20},"\n\u003Cp>For centuries, scientists have been trying to \u003Ca rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\u002Fpmc\u002Farticles\u002FPMC402202\u002F\" target=\"_blank\">envision the future of hospitals\u003C\u002Fa>. Following the recent shift towards digital health technologies and the adoption of remote care approaches, it is only natural to wonder how these developments will impact those healthcare institutions. What can we expect from them in the future? Will there be hospitals altogether in a decade?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>The short answer is yes, physical institutions will still be part of the future of healthcare. However, their roles will be significantly different from what they currently are. They will integrate new elements of design, accommodate digital health technologies, and become specialised centers for invasive procedures, acute care, and disease prevention. In tandem, a significant portion of care will be offloaded outside of the confines of hospitals and healthcare professionals will need to adopt new roles for this purpose.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\u003Cdiv class=\"ebook-block-spacer\">\u003C\u002Fdiv>\n\u003Cdiv class=\"ebook-block-backdrop backdrop-blur\" id=\"modal-backdrop-ebook-block_b71c4ea3bbeb3c251b3f291533686a79\">\u003C\u002Fdiv>\n\u003Cinput style=\"display: none\" id=\"modal-ebook-block_b71c4ea3bbeb3c251b3f291533686a79\"\n       value=\"{"featured":{"ID":47427,"post_author":"6","post_date":"2022-09-29 09:59:00","post_date_gmt":"2022-09-29 07:59:00","post_content":"<!-- wp:paragraph -->\\n<p>Learn how hospitals of the future will be designed, and what technologies will be used in hospitals to change the healthcare experience for all.<\\\u002Fp>\\n<!-- \\\u002Fwp:paragraph -->","post_title":"A Guide To The Future Of Hospitals - The Medical Futurist","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"a-guide-to-the-future-of-hospitals","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-03-12 18:17:06","post_modified_gmt":"2023-03-12 17:17:06","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\\\u002F\\\u002Fapi.medicalfuturist.com\\\u002F?post_type=book&p=47427","menu_order":5,"post_type":"book","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw","featured_image":["https:\\\u002F\\\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\\\u002Fwp-content\\\u002Fuploads\\\u002F2022\\\u002F09\\\u002Fguide-to-the-future-of-hospitals.png",320,414,false],"leanpub_url":"https:\\\u002F\\\u002Fleanpub.com\\\u002Ffuture-of-hospitals","preview":[{"image":"https:\\\u002F\\\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\\\u002Fwp-content\\\u002Fuploads\\\u002F2022\\\u002F09\\\u002F0926_Future_of_Hospitals_Cover.png"}],"buy_button_text":"Get it on Leanpub"},"others":[]}\"\u002F>\n\u003Cdiv id=\"ebook-block_b71c4ea3bbeb3c251b3f291533686a79\" class=\"ebook\">\n    \u003Cdiv class=\"ebook-block h-100\">\n        \u003Cdiv class=\"container h-100\">\n            \u003Cdiv class=\"article-body h-100\">\n                \u003Cdiv class=\"row h-100 align-items-center\">\n                    \u003Cdiv class=\"col-md-5 pr-md-5 mb-4 mb-md-0\">\n                        \u003Cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2022\u002F09\u002Fguide-to-the-future-of-hospitals.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"img-fluid\">\n                    \u003C\u002Fdiv>\n                    \u003Cdiv class=\"col-md-7 pl-md-3\">\n                        \u003Ch3>A Guide To The Future Of Hospitals – The Medical Futurist\u003C\u002Fh3>\n                        \u003C!-- wp:paragraph -->\n\u003Cp>Learn how hospitals of the future will be designed, and what technologies will be used in hospitals to change the healthcare experience for all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003C!-- \u002Fwp:paragraph -->                        \u003Cbutton data-target=\"modal-ebook-block_b71c4ea3bbeb3c251b3f291533686a79\"\n                                class=\"ebook-block-button btn btn-lg font-weight-bold btn-tmf-blue mt-3\">\n                            Start Reading Now\n                        \u003C\u002Fbutton>\n                    \u003C\u002Fdiv>\n                \u003C\u002Fdiv>\n            \u003C\u002Fdiv>\n        \u003C\u002Fdiv>\n    \u003C\u002Fdiv>\n\u003C\u002Fdiv>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>To dive into the trends shaping up this future and the required elements for hospitals to be future-ready, The Medical Futurist updated \u003Ca rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fleanpub.com\u002Ffuture-of-hospitals\u002F\" target=\"_blank\">our beloved e-book ‘A Guide To The Future Of Hospitals\u003C\u002Fa>‘. Composed of seven chapters and including input from industry experts, this e-book aims to equip policymakers, healthcare professionals, and digital health businesses with adequate insights to prepare for the future of hospitals.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>To provide a glimpse of what to expect from our new publication, this article explores five trends that will help shape the hospital of the future. We go into more details in our e-book and we would encourage you to discover more by purchasing a copy of The Guide To The Future Of Hospitals.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003Cstrong>1. The shift of the POC towards homes\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>The point-of-care (POC) refers to the location where care is delivered. Traditionally, this referred to the patient’s bedside in a healthcare facility. But as recent years have highlighted, the POC extends beyond hospital walls to include where the patients are, thanks to remote care and telehealth services, wearables, portable diagnostics, and at-home lab tests.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>This means that patients often can now be monitored and receive healthcare recommendations from the comfort of their homes. This has spurred the new concept of ‘\u003Ca rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fmedicalfuturist.com\u002Fwelcome-to-the-virtual-ward\" target=\"_blank\">virtual wards\u003C\u002Fa>’.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\u003Cdiv class=\"wp-block-image\">\n\u003Cfigure class=\"aligncenter size-large\">\u003Cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2021\u002F06\u002Ftmf_article_277-01-768x432.png\" alt=\"physician shortage moves care from hospitals to the patients' homes\" class=\"wp-image-34881\" srcset=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2021\u002F06\u002Ftmf_article_277-01-768x432.png 768w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2021\u002F06\u002Ftmf_article_277-01-370x208.png 370w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2021\u002F06\u002Ftmf_article_277-01-1536x864.png 1536w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2021\u002F06\u002Ftmf_article_277-01.png 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \u002F>\u003C\u002Ffigure>\n\u003C\u002Fdiv>\n\n\n\u003Cp>Virtual wards offer hospital-grade attention to patients in their own homes using remote monitoring health tools. These provide real-time monitoring which, combined with two-way communication, allows patients to be in touch with healthcare professionals. The latter can subsequently provide prompt intervention if they identify signs of deterioration. Procedures such as intravenous therapies that require trained professionals are performed by a visiting nurse.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Such approaches have already been piloted in countries like the \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.england.nhs.uk\u002Fvirtual-wards\u002F\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">U.K.\u003C\u002Fa>, \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.linkedin.com\u002Fpulse\u002Fvirtual-wards-why-widely-adopted-across-us-healthcare-lloyd-price\u002F\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">U.S.\u003C\u002Fa>, \u003Ca rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.healthcareitnews.com\u002Fnews\u002Fasia\u002Fcovid-19-virtual-ward-helped-singaporean-health-system-save-over-3500-bed-days\" target=\"_blank\">Singapore\u003C\u002Fa> and \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.9news.com.au\u002Fnational\u002Fvirtual-hospital-adelaide-my-home-hospital-for-sa-health\u002Fdc90a123-8d67-4efb-902c-5e9b74df7e01\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Australia\u003C\u002Fa>. As they become more common in the future, hospitals have to be adequately equipped and designed to support such a modality of care delivery.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003Cstrong>2. Designing specific spaces for remote care consultations\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Virtual wards aren’t the only approach that will make use of remote care but a significant proportion of outpatient consultations will also be handled in this manner. McKinsey forecasts that, in the future, \u003Ca rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.bloomberg.com\u002Fnews\u002Farticles\u002F2021-02-23\u002Fhow-the-pandemic-is-transforming-hospital-design\" target=\"_blank\">25% of outpatient services\u003C\u002Fa> could be conducted through telemedicine. Such an approach can help diminish the rate of unnecessary visits while improving the patient experience. \u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\u003Cdiv class=\"wp-block-image\">\n\u003Cfigure class=\"aligncenter size-large\">\u003Cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2021\u002F03\u002Ftmf_article_250-51-01-768x432.png\" alt=\"Hospital healtcare gap democratise future\" class=\"wp-image-33551\" srcset=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2021\u002F03\u002Ftmf_article_250-51-01-768x432.png 768w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2021\u002F03\u002Ftmf_article_250-51-01-370x208.png 370w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2021\u002F03\u002Ftmf_article_250-51-01-1536x864.png 1536w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2021\u002F03\u002Ftmf_article_250-51-01.png 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \u002F>\u003C\u002Ffigure>\n\u003C\u002Fdiv>\n\n\n\u003Cp>To handle the new normal, clinical spaces will need rethinking to accommodate rooms dedicated to virtual consultations and remote care. These will include user-friendly sound and lighting control, with dual screens to simultaneously converse with the patient and access their medical records,” Dr Diana Anderson \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fmedicalfuturist.com\u002Fthe-future-of-hospital-design-inside-the-point-of-care\u002F\">told The Medica\u003C\u002Fa>\u003Ca rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fmedicalfuturist.com\u002Fthe-future-of-hospital-design-inside-the-point-of-care\u002F\" target=\"_blank\">l\u003C\u002Fa>\u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fmedicalfuturist.com\u002Fthe-future-of-hospital-design-inside-the-point-of-care\u002F\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> Futurist\u003C\u002Fa>.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003Cstrong>3. From hand-written notes to voice-to-text\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Clinical documentation systems \u003Ca rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fmedicalfuturist.com\u002Fthe-evolution-of-clinical-documentation-from-paper-to-ai\" target=\"_blank\">evolved significantly during the past decades\u003C\u002Fa>, moving from paper to computers. While most hospitals currently rely on electronic health record (EHR) systems, the necessary administration is among the top contributors to physician burnout. Healthcare professionals spend \u003Ca rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.beckershospitalreview.com\u002Fehrs\u002F6-stats-on-ehr-related-physician-burnout-and-7-tips-to-combat-it.html\" target=\"_blank\">a considerable amount of time\u003C\u002Fa> entering data into EHRs, leaving them with less time to spend with their patients. Many consider EHRs as their \u003Ca rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fmedicalfuturist.com\u002Fvoice-to-text-technologies-shape-the-future\u002F\" target=\"_blank\">number one challenge\u003C\u002Fa>.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>A promising alternative to manually inputting data into EHRs is voice-to-text technology. It operates via a voice recognition system that transcribes patient-doctor visits without requiring physical input.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\u003Cdiv class=\"wp-block-image\">\n\u003Cfigure class=\"aligncenter size-large\">\u003Cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2019\u002F09\u002F106_Voice-to-text-technologies-in-medicine-768x432.gif\" alt=\"voice to text technologies help future hospitals to operate more efficiently \" class=\"wp-image-24827\" srcset=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2019\u002F09\u002F106_Voice-to-text-technologies-in-medicine-768x432.gif 768w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2019\u002F09\u002F106_Voice-to-text-technologies-in-medicine-370x208.gif 370w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2019\u002F09\u002F106_Voice-to-text-technologies-in-medicine-1536x864.gif 1536w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2019\u002F09\u002F106_Voice-to-text-technologies-in-medicine-2048x1152.gif 2048w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2019\u002F09\u002F106_Voice-to-text-technologies-in-medicine-512x288.gif 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \u002F>\u003C\u002Ffigure>\n\u003C\u002Fdiv>\n\n\n\u003Cp>This field has been developing steadily for decades, but progress has become very evident in the past few years. \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.nuance.com\u002Fen-gb\u002Fhealthcare\u002Fphysician-and-clinical-speech\u002Fdragon-medical.html\">Nuance\u003C\u002Fa> and \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.3m.com\u002F3M\u002Fen_US\u002Fhealth-information-systems-us\u002Fcreate-time-to-care\u002Fclinician-solutions\u002Fspeech-recognition\u002Ffluency-direct\u002F\">3M\u003C\u002Fa> were among the first to focus significant efforts on the automated (medical) scribe segment, offering voice recognition services that create clinical notes that integrate into EHRs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Microsoft’s $16bn acquisition of Nuance in 2022 shows new levels of commitment, resources, and partnerships. Following the\u003Ca rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.modernhealthcare.com\u002Fdigital-health\u002Fhimss-2023-epic-microsoft-bring-openais-gpt-4-ehrs\" target=\"_blank\"> early 2023 announcements\u003C\u002Fa> of working on integrating GPT-4 into Epic’s EHR systems, Nuance’s artificial intelligence (AI) based \u003Ca rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.healthcareitnews.com\u002Fnews\u002Fnuance-ai-copilot-now-fully-embedded-epic-ehr\" target=\"_blank\">DAX CoPilot is now fully embedded\u003C\u002Fa> in Epic EHR, and is available to hundreds of hospitals and health systems. \u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>But Nuance’s DAX (and Dragon) are not the only ones offering AI scribes for medical purposes. A French contender, \u003Ca rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.patreon.com\u002Fposts\u002Fnabla-copilot-4-82088198\" target=\"_blank\">Nabla Copilot\u003C\u002Fa> is also successful \u003Ca rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.hcinnovationgroup.com\u002Fanalytics-ai\u002Farticle\u002F53098833\u002Fchildrens-hospital-los-angeles-to-roll-out-nabla-copilot-ambient-ai-assistant\" target=\"_blank\">on the other side of the Atlantic\u003C\u002Fa>. \u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>By slashing the need to type into EHRs, physicians can spend more time with their patients and provide medical attention.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>The healthcare sector shifted from paper records to administrators, electronic medical records, and now, voice-to-text applications. But it is not the end of the road. We are looking forward to the potential of \u003Ca rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fmedicalfuturist.com\u002Fwhy-it-is-important-to-understand-multimodal-large-language-models-in-healthcare\u002F\" target=\"_blank\">Multimodal Large Language Models\u003C\u002Fa> (M-LLMs) which promise a comprehensive and efficient system, potentially reclaiming the human touch in medical care.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003Cstrong>4. AI in decision-making\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Another technology with major potential to enhance the functioning of hospitals is artificial intelligence (AI). Its contribution ranges from reducing \u003Ca rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fmedicalfuturist.com\u002Fambient-intelligence-and-emotion-ai-in-healthcare\u002F\" target=\"_blank\">alarm fatigue\u003C\u002Fa> to \u003Ca rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fmedicalfuturist.com\u002Ftop-12-health-chatbots\u002F\" target=\"_blank\">triaging\u003C\u002Fa>, from administration to clinical decision-making. \u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>AI can indeed assist in \u003Ca rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fmedicalfuturist.com\u002Fwhat-has-a-i-in-medicine-ever-done-for-us\" target=\"_blank\">a multitude of diagnostic processes\u003C\u002Fa>. Such software can, for instance, provide pointers from medical data to help clinicians identify conditions such as \u003Ca rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fpubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\u002F23361114\u002F\" target=\"_blank\">ADHD\u003C\u002Fa>, \u003Ca rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\u002Fpmc\u002Farticles\u002FPMC10731177\u002F#:~:text=AI%20can%20also%20help%20in,periodic%20leg%20movement%20disorders%2C%20etc.\" target=\"_blank\">sleep disorders\u003C\u002Fa>, and \u003Ca rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.mobihealthnews.com\u002Fnews\u002Fzebra-medical-vision-lands-fda-clearance-tool-detect-cardiovascular-disease\" target=\"_blank\">quantify coronary artery calcification\u003C\u002Fa>. \u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\u003Cdiv class=\"wp-block-image\">\n\u003Cfigure class=\"aligncenter size-large\">\u003Cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2020\u002F10\u002F214_tmf-01-768x432.png\" alt=\"things you can and can't expect from A.I. in future hospitals\" class=\"wp-image-30779\" srcset=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2020\u002F10\u002F214_tmf-01-768x432.png 768w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2020\u002F10\u002F214_tmf-01-370x208.png 370w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2020\u002F10\u002F214_tmf-01-1536x864.png 1536w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2020\u002F10\u002F214_tmf-01.png 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \u002F>\u003C\u002Ffigure>\n\u003C\u002Fdiv>\n\n\n\u003Cp>Essentially, AI-powered tools can become the doctor’s new assistant that can crunch through volumes of data from their EHRs and \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.lunduniversity.lu.se\u002Farticle\u002Fai-supported-mammography-screening-found-be-safe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">radiological scans\u003C\u002Fa>. They can then \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fmedicalfuturist.com\u002Fhow-can-you-use-ai-in-your-healthcare-right-now\u002F\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">detect patterns and suspicious signs\u003C\u002Fa>, and provide recommendations. Physicians can subsequently interpret those recommendations and determine the optimal clinical route for the patient.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>One especially exciting aspect of the AI revolution is the field of \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fmedicalfuturist.com\u002Fgenerative-ai-explained-its-impact-and-future-in-healthcare\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">generative AI\u003C\u002Fa>, and large (\u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fmedicalfuturist.com\u002Fusing-chatgpt-offline-the-emergence-of-small-language-models\u002F\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">and small\u003C\u002Fa>) language models in particular – a segment that stepped into the spotlight recently. \u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Although these “general” large language models were not developed (and approved) for giving medical advice, medical LLMs do exist. One of the most prominent examples is \u003Ca rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" style=\"\" href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fmedicalfuturist.com\u002Fmedpalm-new-ai-medical-chatbots-will-soon-be-better-than-waiting-for-a-doctor\u002F\" target=\"_blank\">Google’s Med-PaLM 2\u003C\u002Fa>. This LLM is \u003Ca rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" style=\"\" href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fsites.research.google\u002Fmed-palm\u002F\" target=\"_blank\">specifically trained on a massive dataset of medical text\u003C\u002Fa>, including research papers, clinical notes, and textbooks. This specialised training allows Med-PaLM 2 to understand complex medical terminology and concepts and \u003Ca rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" style=\"\" href=\"https:\u002F\u002Farxiv.org\u002Fpdf\u002F2305.09617.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">according to this pre-print paper\u003C\u002Fa>, with impressive accuracy. Med-PaLM 2 is not accessible to the general public, but the Mayo Clinic has \u003Ca rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" style=\"\" href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.theverge.com\u002F2023\u002F7\u002F8\u002F23788265\u002Fgoogle-med-palm-2-mayo-clinic-chatbot-bard-chatgpt\" target=\"_blank\">reportedly been testing\u003C\u002Fa> the system since 2023.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>This brings us to the next major concept: multimodal large language models, or M-LLMs, we mentioned at the end of the previous segment. M-LLMs \u003Ca rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fmedicalfuturist.com\u002Fwhy-it-is-important-to-understand-multimodal-large-language-models-in-healthcare\u002F\" target=\"_blank\">will be crucial in the future of hospital\u003C\u002Fa>\u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fmedicalfuturist.com\u002Fwhy-it-is-important-to-understand-multimodal-large-language-models-in-healthcare\u002F\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">s\u003C\u002Fa>. Multimodal systems can process and interpret multiple types of input data, such as text, images, audio, and video, simultaneously. These M-LLM systems will eventually serve as a central hub for various unimodal AI applications in hospitals, translating between various technologies and humans, allowing a single, easy-to-use interface to control a wide range of applications. \u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>AI has \u003Ca rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fleanpub.com\u002FArtificialIntelligenceinHealthcare\" target=\"_blank\">a vast amount\u003C\u002Fa> of potential in healthcare and as it becomes integral to care delivery, hospitals should be able to accommodate them. \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fmedicalfuturist.com\u002Fcloud-gaming-can-bring-artificial-intelligence-to-the-doctors-office\u002F\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Cloud computing infrastructure\u003C\u002Fa> could be such a means to make healthcare facilities AI-ready, but the medical staff should also get acquainted with the technology and \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fmedicalfuturist.com\u002F10-things-you-can-definitely-expect-from-the-future-of-healthcare-ai\u002F\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">its realistic potential\u003C\u002Fa>.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003Cstrong>5. Cybersecurity and how hospitals can keep patients’ data safe\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>With the increased digitisation of healthcare, healthcare establishments will need to acknowledge the \u003Ca rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" style=\"\" href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fmedicalfuturist.com\u002Fyour-privacy-in-the-digital-health-era-the-medical-futurists-guide\u002F\" target=\"_blank\">accompanying cybersecurity risks\u003C\u002Fa>. Cyberattacks, which \u003Ca rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.aha.org\u002Faha-center-health-innovation-market-scan\u002F2023-10-10-how-prevent-high-impact-cyberattack\" target=\"_blank\">experienced a rise\u003C\u002Fa> in the past years, can \u003Ca rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" style=\"\" href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fhealthitsecurity.com\u002Fnews\u002Fthe-10-biggest-healthcare-data-breaches-of-2020\" target=\"_blank\">compromise sensitive patient data\u003C\u002Fa> as well as \u003Ca rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" style=\"\" href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.hhs.gov\u002Fblog\u002F2022\u002F02\u002F28\u002Fimproving-cybersecurity-posture-healthcare-2022.html\" target=\"_blank\">force the cancellation\u003C\u002Fa> of crucial services such as surgeries and radiology exams. \u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Hospitals should thus set up proper safeguarding protocols and approaches against cybercrimes. They can \u003Ca rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fmedicalfuturist.com\u002Fcyberthreats-to-hospitals-2021\u002F\" target=\"_blank\">educate and train staff\u003C\u002Fa> to identify and counter activities of malicious third parties, which often \u003Ca rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.csoonline.com\u002Farticle\u002F3648654\u002Fsocial-engineering-definition-examples-and-techniques.html\" target=\"_blank\">exploit human psychology\u003C\u002Fa>. \u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Regarding the technical aspect, anti-virus and anti-ransomware protection should be employed; and operating systems and software applications should be updated. Outdated software was in fact behind the leading cause of the infamous \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fmedicalfuturist.com\u002Fthe-nhs-ransomware-attack-data-privacy-in-digital-health-part-one\u002F\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">WannaCry cyberattack on 61 NHS institutions\u003C\u002Fa> in 2017.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>On top of these cybersecurity concerns, hospitals will need to ensure that patients’ data are transparently handled. As they will increasingly employ AI tools, hospitals will need to use patient data to train the algorithms, often while collaborating with Big Tech companies. However, patients might not be explicitly informed of such uses of their data. The collaboration between Google’s DeepMind AI unit and the Royal Free London NHS Trust \u003Ca rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.medicaldevice-network.com\u002Ffeatures\u002Fdata-privacy-advertising-amazon-and-artificial-intelligence\u002F\" target=\"_blank\">exemplifies this\u003C\u002Fa>. In the latter case, certain healthcare-related details of \u003Ca rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\u002F\u002Ftechcrunch.com\u002F2016\u002F05\u002F04\u002Fconcerns-raised-over-broad-scope-of-deepmind-nhs-health-data-sharing-deal\u002F\" target=\"_blank\">some 1.6 million patients\u003C\u002Fa> were shared without properly informing patients of such use.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>While there is essentially no effective AI without patient data to train them on, privacy-focused training methods could be adopted. One such approach is decentralised \u003Ca rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fmedicalfuturist.com\u002Ffederated-learning-can-protect-patients-data-in-hospitals\u002F\" target=\"_blank\">federated learning\u003C\u002Fa>, which has been shown to \u003Ca rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.nature.com\u002Farticles\u002Fs41746-020-00323-1\" target=\"_blank\">perform comparably\u003C\u002Fa> to other centralised models to deliver \u003Ca rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.medrxiv.org\u002Fcontent\u002F10.1101\u002F2020.12.22.20245407v1.full\" target=\"_blank\">quality\u003C\u002Fa> and \u003Ca rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.jmir.org\u002F2020\u002F10\u002Fe20891\" target=\"_blank\">reliable\u003C\u002Fa> performance. \u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Hospitals will thus need to ensure that patients’ data are handled responsibly and transparently; in particular in order to foster a trusting relationship between patients, hospitals and developers for effective digital health adoption.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\u003Cdiv class=\"wp-block-image\">\n\u003Cfigure class=\"aligncenter size-large\">\u003Cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"463\" src=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2022\u002F09\u002Fhealthcare-privacy-768x463.png\" alt=\"healthcare privacy tmf hacker laptop computer data\" class=\"wp-image-47163\" srcset=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2022\u002F09\u002Fhealthcare-privacy-768x463.png 768w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2022\u002F09\u002Fhealthcare-privacy-1536x926.png 1536w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2022\u002F09\u002Fhealthcare-privacy.png 1792w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \u002F>\u003C\u002Ffigure>\n\u003C\u002Fdiv>\n\n\n\u003Cp>While these five trends indicate how the hospital in the future will operate, many more factors come into play. These range from specific design elements through the impact of tech giants to the new role of healthcare professionals. We provide in-depth analyses regarding how these elements factor in the functioning of the hospital of the future and we invite you to discover them in detail in our e-book \u003Ca rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fleanpub.com\u002Ffuture-of-hospitals\" target=\"_blank\">A Guide To The Future Of Hospitals\u003C\u002Fa>.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>\u003Cem>Written by Dr. Bertalan Meskó & Dr. Pranavsingh Dhunnoo\u003C\u002Fem>\u003C\u002Fp>\n",{"rendered":622,"protected":20},"\u003Cp>Let’s explore five important trends that will help shape the hospital of the future and how they will transform 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will have hospitals in 2040 too, but their roles will be different.\u003C\u002Fp>\n",{"title":708},"\u003Cp>Parallel to this transformation, the roles of healthcare personnel will also be different with AI, remote care transforming diagnostics and patient-doctor interactions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n",{"yoast_wpseo_title":618,"yoast_wpseo_metadesc":710,"yoast_wpseo_canonical":616},"Let's explore five important trends that shape the hospital of the future and how they transform care and the role of patients and medical 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In Healthcare: From Gaming To Medicine",{"rendered":766,"protected":20},"\n\u003Cp>Mostly renowned for its powerful graphics processing unit (GPU) used in the video game industry, NVIDIA is no stranger to healthcare. In fact, it has a dedicated branch to offer solutions that its computing platform can deliver in medicine and was among the first players significantly investing in AI. \u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>These initiatives might have been seen with some confusion five or seven years ago but certainly gave NVIDIA an edge in the past two years. For example when almost a year ago \u003Ca rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.nature.com\u002Farticles\u002Fs41586-023-06160-y\" target=\"_blank\">this study was published\u003C\u002Fa>. The authors trained a large language model for medical language and fine-tuned it across a wide range of clinical and operational predictive tasks, including 30-day all-cause readmission prediction, in-hospital mortality prediction, comorbidity index prediction, length of stay prediction and insurance denial prediction.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\u003Cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"799\" src=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2021\u002F08\u002FNVIDIA-AI-model-768x799.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-55773\" srcset=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2021\u002F08\u002FNVIDIA-AI-model-768x799.jpg 768w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2021\u002F08\u002FNVIDIA-AI-model.jpg 1032w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \u002F>\u003C\u002Ffigure>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>In March 2024, \u003Ca rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.cnbc.com\u002F2024\u002F03\u002F24\u002Fnvidias-ai-ambitions-in-medicine-and-health-care-are-becoming-clear.html\" target=\"_blank\">the company announced\u003C\u002Fa> the launch of two dozen new, AI-powered healthcare-focused tools. NVIDIA’s recent push into the healthcare sector extends to a \u003Ca rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.foxbusiness.com\u002Ftechnology\u002Fnvidia-announces-ai-powered-health-care-agents-outperform-nurses-cost-9-hour\" target=\"_blank\">collaboration with Hippocratic AI\u003C\u002Fa>. Together, they’re developing generative AI “agents” designed to enhance tasks such as medication guidance, patient check-ins, and identifying health risks. \u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>\u003Cem>“For over a decade, we have partnered with the medical devices ecosystem to bring innovative diagnostic imaging, robotic surgery and patient monitoring devices to the market,”\u003C\u002Fem> Kimberly Powell, Vice President of Healthcare of NVIDIA, told The Medical Futurist \u003Ca rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.patreon.com\u002Fposts\u002Fchat-with-vice-i-35985895\" target=\"_blank\">in an interview\u003C\u002Fa> a while ago.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Prominently, the GPU manufacturer \u003Ca rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.mobihealthnews.com\u002Fcontent\u002Fnvidia-looks-ai-future-medical-imaging-technologies\" target=\"_blank\">launched its AI platform, Clara\u003C\u002Fa> in 2018 designed to augment medical imaging and genomics. It followed up a year later with a toolkit for radiologists, \u003Ca rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.mobihealthnews.com\u002Fcontent\u002Fnvidia-launches-ai-toolkit-radiologists-clara-ai\" target=\"_blank\">Clara AI\u003C\u002Fa>, to help with the classification of images. In 2019, the tech giant also started to explore \u003Ca rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fmedicalfuturist.com\u002Ffederated-learning-can-protect-patients-data-in-hospitals\u002F\" target=\"_blank\">federated learning in healthcare\u003C\u002Fa>, the privacy-focused AI training method. \u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\u003Cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2019\u002F09\u002F106_Voice-to-text-technologies-in-medicine-768x432.gif\" alt=\"voice to text technologies\" class=\"wp-image-24827\" srcset=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2019\u002F09\u002F106_Voice-to-text-technologies-in-medicine-768x432.gif 768w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2019\u002F09\u002F106_Voice-to-text-technologies-in-medicine-370x208.gif 370w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2019\u002F09\u002F106_Voice-to-text-technologies-in-medicine-1536x864.gif 1536w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2019\u002F09\u002F106_Voice-to-text-technologies-in-medicine-2048x1152.gif 2048w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2019\u002F09\u002F106_Voice-to-text-technologies-in-medicine-512x288.gif 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \u002F>\u003C\u002Ffigure>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>While for many years this company was the silent member of the ‘\u003Cem>\u003Ca rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fleanpub.com\u002Ftech-giants-in-healthcare\" target=\"_blank\">tech giants in healthcare\u003C\u002Fa>\u003C\u002Fem>‘ club, in the past few months they seem to have switched gears and ramped up their healthcare projects. \u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003Cstrong>Building an NVIDIA-branded supercomputer\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>In 2020, \u003Ca rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.mobihealthnews.com\u002Fnews\u002Femea\u002Fnvidia-build-uk-s-most-powerful-supercomputer-aid-ai-research-healthcare\" target=\"_blank\">NVIDIA announced its plans\u003C\u002Fa> to build a computer; but rather than use it for gaming, they designed it to aid AI research in healthcare. Named Cambridge-1, it was no regular computer either: it was designed to be the UK’s most powerful supercomputer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\u003Cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2020\u002F11\u002F219_tmf-01-768x432.png\" alt=\"cloud gaming and cloud hospitals\" class=\"wp-image-31025\" srcset=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2020\u002F11\u002F219_tmf-01-768x432.png 768w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2020\u002F11\u002F219_tmf-01-370x208.png 370w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2020\u002F11\u002F219_tmf-01-1536x864.png 1536w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2020\u002F11\u002F219_tmf-01.png 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \u002F>\u003C\u002Ffigure>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>“\u003Cem>The Cambridge-1 supercomputer will serve as a hub of innovation for the UK and further the groundbreaking work being done by the nation’s researchers in critical healthcare and drug discovery\u003C\u002Fem>” – Jensen Huang, NVIDIA founder and CEO, \u003Ca rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.mobihealthnews.com\u002Fnews\u002Femea\u002Fnvidia-build-uk-s-most-powerful-supercomputer-aid-ai-research-healthcare\" target=\"_blank\">said during his 2020 GTC keynote\u003C\u002Fa>.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Cambridge-1 was the first step taken by the tech giant \u003Ca rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.mobihealthnews.com\u002Fnews\u002Femea\u002Fnvidia-build-uk-s-most-powerful-supercomputer-aid-ai-research-healthcare\" target=\"_blank\">to create an AI center of excellence\u003C\u002Fa> in Cambridge. The long-term aim was to turn the area into a hub where researchers and startups can collaborate. The latest development in the supercomputer project \u003Ca rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fblogs.nvidia.com\u002Fblog\u002Fcambridge-1-ai-supercomputer-expands-via-dgx-cloud\u002F\" target=\"_blank\">was announced in November\u003C\u002Fa>, when NVIDIA said to make it part of its DGX Cloud to broaden access to AI supercomputing for researchers. \u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Powering genomics, drug development and medical imaging with AI\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>“\u003Cem>We have to make AI easier to use,\u003C\u002Fem>” \u003Ca rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.hpcwire.com\u002F2021\u002F04\u002F12\u002Fnvidia-aims-clara-healthcare-at-drug-discovery-imaging-via-dgx\u002F\" target=\"_blank\">declared the NVIDIA CEO\u003C\u002Fa> in his 2021 GTC keynote address. It seems like the company is steadily working towards that goal. \u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>“NVIDIA invested $50 million in Recursion for its drug discovery projects. Recursion is inputting its biological and chemical data to train NVIDIA’s AI models on its cloud platform. The company has also worked with Roche’s Genentech to develop new medications and better treatment protocols. One of NVIDIA’s greatest health-care strengths to date is the \u003Ca rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.nvidia.com\u002Fen-eu\u002Fclara\u002Fbionemo\u002F\" target=\"_blank\">BioNeMo platform\u003C\u002Fa>, a generative AI cloud service specifically made for drug development.” – \u003Ca rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.cnbc.com\u002F2024\u002F03\u002F24\u002Fnvidias-ai-ambitions-in-medicine-and-health-care-are-becoming-clear.html\" target=\"_blank\">came the news report in March 2024\u003C\u002Fa>.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>NVIDIA had an eye on applying AI in genomics ever since it launched Clara and it hasn’t lost track of this target. In March 2021, the tech giant announced \u003Ca rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.mobihealthnews.com\u002Fnews\u002Fnvidia-harvard-team-genome-research-toolkit\" target=\"_blank\">a partnership with Harvard University\u003C\u002Fa> to develop an AI-based genome research toolkit. Named AtacWorks, it could sequence a whole genome in 30 minutes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>\u003Cem>“Models trained by AtacWorks can detect peaks from cell types not seen in the training data, and are generalizable across diverse sample preparations and experimental platforms,”\u003C\u002Fem> \u003Ca rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.nature.com\u002Farticles\u002Fs41467-021-21765-5\" target=\"_blank\">explained researchers\u003C\u002Fa> working with the software.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\u003Cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2020\u002F10\u002F214_tmf-01-1-768x432.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-30807\" srcset=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2020\u002F10\u002F214_tmf-01-1-768x432.png 768w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2020\u002F10\u002F214_tmf-01-1-370x208.png 370w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2020\u002F10\u002F214_tmf-01-1-1536x864.png 1536w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2020\u002F10\u002F214_tmf-01-1.png 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \u002F>\u003C\u002Ffigure>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>The tech company was also one of the early players to assist drug discovery with AI. NVIDIA \u003Ca rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.mobihealthnews.com\u002Fnews\u002Fnvidia-partners-astrazeneca-and-university-florida-ai-powered-drug-discovery\" target=\"_blank\">announced an AI project with AstraZeneca \u003C\u002Fa>and the University of Florida to boost drug discovery. The drug-discovery model, named \u003Ca rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcatalog.ngc.nvidia.com\u002Forgs\u002Fnvidia\u002Fteams\u002Fclara\u002Fmodels\u002Fmegamolbart\" target=\"_blank\">MegaMoIBART\u003C\u002Fa>, was aimed at \u003Cem>“reaction prediction, molecular optimization and de novo molecular generation”\u003C\u002Fem>. \u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>NVIDIA also announced during its 2021 GTC event its \u003Ca rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.hpcwire.com\u002F2021\u002F04\u002F12\u002Fnvidia-aims-clara-healthcare-at-drug-discovery-imaging-via-dgx\u002F\" target=\"_blank\">collaboration with Carestream Health\u003C\u002Fa>, a medical imaging specialist. The latter will incorporate NVIDIA’s Clara AI platform into imaging devices used for X-ray screening.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Surgical robots and biotech\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>In the spring of 2024 Nvidia reported deals with Johnson & Johnson for \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.cnbc.com\u002F2024\u002F03\u002F18\u002Fnvidia-and-johnson-johnson-to-build-ai-applications-for-surgery-.html\">use of generative AI in surgery\u003C\u002Fa>, and \u003Ca rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.fiercehealthcare.com\u002Fai-and-machine-learning\u002Fnvidia-inks-tie-ups-abridge-ge-healthcare-and-microsoft-it-expands-its\" target=\"_blank\">with GE Healthcare\u003C\u002Fa> to improve medical imaging. These are just a few of the healthcare, biotech or pharma companies that turn to NVIDIA, as their graphic processing units (GPUs) are ideal for a broad range of computational tasks, such as simulations, deep learning, and data analysis.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>As the \u003Ca rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.therobotreport.com\u002F5-things-that-could-shape-surgical-robotics-in-the-next-decade\u002F\" target=\"_blank\">analysis from The Robot Report\u003C\u002Fa> pointed out, this is not all, as NVIDIA already had been working with \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.massdevice.com\u002Fasensus-nvidea-collab-ai-surgical-robotics\u002F\">Asensus Surgical\u003C\u002Fa> and \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fnvidianews.nvidia.com\u002Fnews\u002Fmedtronic-and-nvidia-collaborate-to-build-ai-platform-for-medical-devices\">Medtronic\u003C\u002Fa>.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">NVIDIA in healthcare: a focused path\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>These recent developments indicate a rather focused path for NVIDIA in healthcare. While its plans aren’t as diverse as that of \u003Ca rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fmedicalfuturist.com\u002Famazons-march-into-healthcare-a-2021-update\u002F\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon\u003C\u002Fa> or \u003Ca rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fmedicalfuturist.com\u002Fgoogles-masterplan-for-healthcare\" target=\"_blank\">Google\u003C\u002Fa>, the company hasn’t faced significant hurdles recently as it is focusing on its computing strengths. For NVIDIA, that strength has mostly revolved around AI frameworks and to aid basic research with the help of AI.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>NVIDIA envisions a major role for AI in the future of healthcare. Kimberly Powell, VP of NVIDIA, shared the company’s vision for that future with The Medical Futurist in \u003Ca rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.patreon.com\u002Fposts\u002Fbuilding-smart-37511442\" target=\"_blank\">a Patreon interview\u003C\u002Fa>. \u003Cem>“Hospitals will use AI cameras to automatically screen for elevated body temperature, use genomics sequencing to predict how lethal a virus or suspected condition could be for each patient, use AI in medical imaging for detection and predicting clinical outcomes, incorporate AI into everyday cameras and microphones to monitor and interact with patients,”\u003C\u002Fem> Powell said two years ago and her vision seems more accurate than ever.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Chr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\u002F>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>\u003Cstrong>But NVIDIA isn’t the only tech giant with a vision for healthcare. For a deeper dive into their long-term plans, we recommend our e-book, \u003Ca rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fmedicalfuturist.com\u002Ftech-giants-in-healthcare-new-e-book\u002F#\" target=\"_blank\">\u003Cem>Tech Giants In Healthcare\u003C\u002Fem>\u003C\u002Fa>, dedicated to the topic. 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Thank you.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003C\u002Ftr>\n\u003C\u002Ftbody>\n\u003C\u002Ftable>\n\u003Cp> \u003C\u002Fp>\n",{"rendered":768,"protected":20},"\u003Cp>NVIDIA was among the first companies to heavily bet on AI in healthcare, and their dedication now pays off.\u003C\u002Fp>\n",35637,{"_acf_changed":20,"footnotes":26},[102,626,103,387,627],[773,774,775,776,777,639,778,779,780,781,782,783,637,635],140,821,142,862,266,281,5039,1433,6943,569,7331,[785,644,645,646,786],947,953,[],[243,789,790,244,791,792,252,242],1783,1833,4363,1607,[794,88,110,32,111,112,33,114,660,115,400,661,795,796,797,798,799,672,800,801,802,803,804,805,670,668,806,676,677,678,807],"post-35031","tag-amazon","tag-a-i","tag-apple","tag-nvidia","tag-google-2","tag-ibm","tag-tech-giants","tag-privacy","tag-kimberly-powell","tag-microsoft","tag-clara","project_category-company","project_category-researchers",{"id":769,"alt_text":809,"caption":26,"description":26,"media_type":117,"media_details":810,"post":754,"source_url":827},"NVIDIA",{"width":274,"height":275,"file":811,"sizes":812,"image_meta":826},"2021\u002F08\u002Ftmf_article_285-01.png",{"medium":813,"large":816,"thumbnail":819,"medium_large":822,"1536x1536":823},{"file":814,"width":280,"height":281,"mime-type":128,"source_url":815},"tmf_article_285-01-370x208.png","https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2021\u002F08\u002Ftmf_article_285-01-370x208.png",{"file":817,"width":285,"height":286,"mime-type":128,"source_url":818},"tmf_article_285-01-768x432.png","https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2021\u002F08\u002Ftmf_article_285-01-768x432.png",{"file":820,"width":290,"height":290,"mime-type":128,"source_url":821},"tmf_article_285-01-150x150.png","https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2021\u002F08\u002Ftmf_article_285-01-150x150.png",{"file":817,"width":285,"height":286,"mime-type":128,"source_url":818},{"file":824,"width":295,"height":296,"mime-type":128,"source_url":825},"tmf_article_285-01-1536x864.png","https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2021\u002F08\u002Ftmf_article_285-01-1536x864.png",{"aperture":144,"credit":26,"camera":26,"caption":26,"created_timestamp":144,"copyright":26,"focal_length":144,"iso":144,"shutter_speed":144,"title":26,"orientation":144},"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2021\u002F08\u002Ftmf_article_285-01.png",{"cta_type":311,"cta_color":26,"subtitle":26,"related_books":829,"related_posts_footer":830,"related_posts":20,"key_takeaways":834},[315],[831,832,833],35019,34907,34899,[835,837],{"title":836},"\u003Cp>Mostly renowned for its powerful graphics processing unit (GPU) used in the video game industry, NVIDIA is no stranger to healthcare.\u003C\u002Fp>\n",{"title":838},"\u003Cp>For NVIDIA, that strength has mostly revolved around AI frameworks and to aid basic research with the help of AI.\u003C\u002Fp>\n",{"yoast_wpseo_title":840,"yoast_wpseo_metadesc":841,"yoast_wpseo_canonical":762},"NVIDIA In Healthcare: From Gaming To Medicine - The Medical Futurist","NVIDIA In Healthcare: from gaming company to renowned player on the field, NVIDIA keeps an eye on the prize and aims to step up its game in medicine.",{"self":843,"collection":848,"about":850,"author":852,"replies":854,"version-history":857,"predecessor-version":861,"wp:featuredmedia":865,"wp:attachment":868,"wp:term":871,"curies":882},[844],{"href":845,"targetHints":846},"https:\u002F\u002Fapi.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-json\u002Fwp\u002Fv2\u002Fposts\u002F35031",{"allow":847},[45],[849],{"href":165},[851],{"href":168},[853],{"embeddable":54,"href":455},[855],{"embeddable":54,"href":856},"https:\u002F\u002Fapi.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-json\u002Fwp\u002Fv2\u002Fcomments?post=35031",[858],{"count":859,"href":860},35,"https:\u002F\u002Fapi.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-json\u002Fwp\u002Fv2\u002Fposts\u002F35031\u002Frevisions",[862],{"id":863,"href":864},60421,"https:\u002F\u002Fapi.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-json\u002Fwp\u002Fv2\u002Fposts\u002F35031\u002Frevisions\u002F60421",[866],{"embeddable":54,"href":867},"https:\u002F\u002Fapi.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-json\u002Fwp\u002Fv2\u002Fmedia\u002F35637",[869],{"href":870},"https:\u002F\u002Fapi.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-json\u002Fwp\u002Fv2\u002Fmedia?parent=35031",[872,874,876,878,880],{"taxonomy":191,"embeddable":54,"href":873},"https:\u002F\u002Fapi.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-json\u002Fwp\u002Fv2\u002Fcategories?post=35031",{"taxonomy":194,"embeddable":54,"href":875},"https:\u002F\u002Fapi.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-json\u002Fwp\u002Fv2\u002Ftags?post=35031",{"taxonomy":197,"embeddable":54,"href":877},"https:\u002F\u002Fapi.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-json\u002Fwp\u002Fv2\u002Fproject_category?post=35031",{"taxonomy":200,"embeddable":54,"href":879},"https:\u002F\u002Fapi.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-json\u002Fwp\u002Fv2\u002Fcontact_email_category?post=35031",{"taxonomy":72,"embeddable":54,"href":881},"https:\u002F\u002Fapi.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-json\u002Fwp\u002Fv2\u002Fyst_prominent_words?post=35031",[883],{"name":76,"href":77,"templated":54},{"id":885,"date":886,"date_gmt":887,"guid":888,"modified":890,"modified_gmt":891,"slug":892,"status":13,"type":88,"link":893,"title":894,"content":896,"excerpt":898,"author":96,"featured_media":900,"comment_status":25,"ping_status":25,"sticky":54,"template":26,"format":98,"meta":901,"categories":902,"tags":903,"project_category":914,"contact_email_category":916,"yst_prominent_words":917,"class_list":921,"better_featured_image":934,"acf":959,"yoast_meta":970,"_links":972},46719,"2026-01-20T15:40:22","2026-01-20T14:40:22",{"rendered":889},"https:\u002F\u002Fmedicalfuturist.com\u002F?post_id=46719&_wpnonce=06f660280f&status=auto-draft&type=post","2026-01-23T11:13:24","2026-01-23T10:13:24","the-new-buzz-these-are-the-top-examples-of-digital-therapeutics","https:\u002F\u002Fmedicalfuturist.com\u002Fthe-new-buzz-these-are-the-top-examples-of-digital-therapeutics",{"rendered":895},"These Are The Top Examples Of Digital Therapeutics",{"rendered":897,"protected":20},"\n\u003Cp>Digital Therapeutics or DTx in short is one of the latest buzzwords in the digital health ecosystem. Unlike others (NFT, Metaverse just to name a few) however, we see DTx as a meaningful trend that has the capacity to bring short-term, substantial improvements in personalised healthcare. \u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Ch3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What is Digital Therapeutics?\u003C\u002Fh3>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>The definition by the \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fdtxalliance.org\u002F\">Digital Therapeutics Alliance\u003C\u002Fa>, the main professional hub is: \u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>“Digital therapeutics (DTx) deliver evidence-based therapeutic interventions that are driven by high-quality software programs to prevent, manage, or treat a medical disorder or disease. They are used independently or in concert with medications, devices, or other therapies to optimise patient care and health outcomes.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>In everyday English: DTx delivers evidence-based, clinically backed solutions to manage and\u002For improve health conditions via software and\u002For other digital health technologies. \u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>You can download the latest, official DTx Value Assessment & Integration Guide \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fdtxalliance.org\u002Fadvancing-dtx\u002Fdtx-value-guide\u002F\">here\u003C\u002Fa>. \u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Ch3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What is it good for? \u003C\u002Fh3>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>The number of existing DTx solutions is constantly on the rise, the Alliance has a \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fdtxalliance.org\u002Funderstanding-dtx\u002Fproduct-library\u002F\">product library\u003C\u002Fa>, but even they admit that the inventory is not complete. As of now, there are several healthcare segments that seem to utilise the potential the most, diabetes care and mental health apps are well represented among the applications, some of which are like certain drugs: subscription-only.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\">\u003Cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"430\" src=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2018\u002F01\u002Fdigital-pharmacy-768x430.png\" alt=\"Digital Health Mergers\" class=\"wp-image-16958\" srcset=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2018\u002F01\u002Fdigital-pharmacy-768x430.png 768w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2018\u002F01\u002Fdigital-pharmacy-370x208.png 370w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2018\u002F01\u002Fdigital-pharmacy-512x287.png 512w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2018\u002F01\u002Fdigital-pharmacy-446x250.png 446w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2018\u002F01\u002Fdigital-pharmacy.png 870w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \u002F>\u003C\u002Ffigure>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Apart from these ‘established’ segments, we have seen some promising new ventures in the field, worth keeping an eye on.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Ch3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Why is it good?\u003C\u002Fh3>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>DTx solutions are typically delivered through smartphone apps. In other words, via \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.psychiatrictimes.com\u002Fview\u002Ffrom-theory-to-real-world-practice-clinical-integration-of-digital-therapeutics\">a channel pretty much everyone has access to\u003C\u002Fa>. Not only is that important, because accessibility is one of the key factors for any new solution to become widely used, but also because it allows a certain kind of privacy, bringing treatments to the patients’ homes, removing stigmas typically connected to a number of therapies, either in substance abuse care or in mental health.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Ch3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Summarising the basics, let’s see a few exciting, real-life examples\u003C\u002Fh3>\n\n\n\n\u003Ch4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">1. Atopic Dermatitis (eczema) treatment\u003C\u002Fh4>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Digital therapeutics firm \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fsidekickhealth.com\u002F\">Sidekick Health \u003C\u002Fa>has joined forces with pharma giant Pfizer to launch a digital therapeutics solution for Atopic Dermatitis (AD). We briefly introduced their solution on our Patreon page, you will find the \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.patreon.com\u002Fposts\u002F67510798\">interview with co-founder Sam Oddsson here\u003C\u002Fa>. \u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>This partnership meets three important criteria that can hugely support it to become successful: \u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003Cli>a digital health firm partnering up with a pharma company \u003C\u002Fli>\n\n\n\n\u003Cli>focusing on digital therapeutics\u003C\u002Fli>\n\n\n\n\u003Cli>dedicated to a niche area, atopic dermatitis\u003C\u002Fli>\n\u003C\u002Ful>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>As mentioned a zillion times on these pages earlier, targeting niche areas with well-defined solutions is typically much more viable than trying to shoot for the full width of the healthcare spectrum.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Results are promising here, patients also using the app besides their regular treatment regime reported significant reduction of symptoms and improved adherence to treatments and preventive measures.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Ch4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">2. Cancer treatment\u003C\u002Fh4>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>A \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fendpts.com\u002Fpfizers-dtx-partner-is-back-this-time-in-a-new-collab-with-eli-lilly\u002F\">very recent development\u003C\u002Fa> from Sidekick is a new partnership just announced, they teamed up with Eli Lilly to provide support for Lilly’s oncology treatment programs, targeting key pain points of breast cancer treatments. The collaboration will be launched in July 2022 in Germany, with potentially other countries following. \u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>And what are the key pain points? Pain, nausea, anxiety, lack of understanding of the treatment, and lack of adherence to treatment. Also, very often, the feeling of being alone, not being fully connected with the care team.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>This is not the only DTx solution to support cancer treatments, \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fkaikuhealth.com\u002F\">Kaiku Health\u003C\u002Fa> has a CE-marked, MDD class IIa class application, that is currently used for 25 different cancer types, in several countries, including Germany, Switzerland, the Netherlands and Finland among others.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Ch4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">3. DTX targeting behavioural health conditions\u003C\u002Fh4>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>The first application of New York-based \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.happifyhealth.com\u002Fdigital-therapeutics\">Happify \u003C\u002Fa>we became aware of a while ago was called Ensemble, and it was designed to use app-based exercises to help change negative thinking patterns and develop healthy habits.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>The company has developed a new DTx app, called Basis since then, the latter is a non-prescription tool for managing symptoms of stress, anxiety and depression. \u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Again, both of the above solutions target specific problems, have a well-defined target audience, and neither of them tries to solve all existing health conditions at once. \u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\">\u003Cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2020\u002F06\u002F179_tmf-01-768x432.png\" alt=\"Lifestyle medicine DTx app mental meditation\" class=\"wp-image-28791\" srcset=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2020\u002F06\u002F179_tmf-01-768x432.png 768w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2020\u002F06\u002F179_tmf-01-370x208.png 370w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2020\u002F06\u002F179_tmf-01-1536x864.png 1536w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2020\u002F06\u002F179_tmf-01.png 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \u002F>\u003C\u002Ffigure>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>The company obviously tries to build a castle around these cores, offering condition-specific communities, A.I. based and\u002For live health coaching, and also a Wellness app, that has a wider scope than what we typically like, at first glance trying to unify all the above in one application intended for a more general audience.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Ch4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">4. DTx for sleep-wake disorders and substance abuse\u003C\u002Fh4>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Pear Therapeutics has developed a prescription-only DTx application called \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fpeartherapeutics.com\u002Fproducts\u002Fsomryst\u002F\">Somryst \u003C\u002Fa>for insomnia treatment for above-22 patients. The solution has a strict list of use limitations, both in health conditions and also in job descriptions, as the early stage might increase sleepiness, definitely not recommended in a good number of professions, from truck drivers to operators of heavy machinery. \u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>The app works via a method of sleep restriction and consolidation, limiting the time a patient spends in bed to match the amount of time they sleep. It is backed by a clinician-facing dashboard, where healthcare professionals can follow the patients’ use of the app, the severity of their symptoms, and their sleep metrics. \u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>The company has \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fpeartherapeutics.com\u002Fproducts\u002Freset-reset-o\u002F\">other prescription-only DTx solutions\u003C\u002Fa>, called reSET and reSET-O, targeting substance use disorders and Opioid Use Disorders via cognitive behavioural therapy, both used in outpatient treatments supervised by clinicians.  \u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Also in the pipeline is another important development, \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.mobihealthnews.com\u002Fnews\u002Fpear-scores-breakthrough-device-designation-digital-therapeutic-aimed-alcohol-use-disorder\">reSET-A\u003C\u002Fa>, a tool designed to target alcohol addiction, that has received Breakthrough Device Designations from FDA last fall, still waiting for full clearance. \u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Ch4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">5. Chronic Pain Treatments\u003C\u002Fh4>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Last, but not least, also an exciting use of DTx tools can be found in chronic pain treatment, where VR was proved to be pretty efficient in easing symptoms, so much so that it also received FDA authorisation. \u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>There are several existing solutions, like \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.theverge.com\u002F2021\u002F11\u002F16\u002F22785609\u002Fvr-chronic-pain-fda\">RelieVRx \u003C\u002Fa>or \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fdtxalliance.org\u002Fproducts\u002Fhellobetter-chronicpain\u002F\">HelloBetter\u003C\u002Fa>, both using principles of cognitive behavioural therapy to ease chronic pain. \u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>\u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.appliedvr.io\u002F\">AppliedVR\u003C\u002Fa>, the developer of the \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.relievrx.com\u002F\">former app\u003C\u002Fa> has a number of other applications in the \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.appliedvr.io\u002Fpipeline\">pipeline\u003C\u002Fa>, furthest along the process is their application targeting chronic back pain management, but others are also in progress, including opioid-sparing treatments for a number of conditions and also others that target general pain and\u002For anxiety management for certain conditions. \u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Ch3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">This is not all of course\u003C\u002Fh3>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Even looking around in the – far from offering a complete view – \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fdtxalliance.org\u002Funderstanding-dtx\u002Fproduct-library\u002F\">product library\u003C\u002Fa> of the DTx Alliance, you will see that there are other existing and exciting solutions, targeting a wide range of symptoms from ADHD in kids to asthma and migraine and many others in adults. \u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>The important next question is how fast and easy these can infiltrate normal, everyday care and medical practice. 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Evolution of Digital Health Devices: New Executive Summary!",{"rendered":1027,"protected":20},"\n\u003Cp>Digital health is evolving faster than ever, yet the way we share and consume knowledge about it has not kept pace. Long e-books about the topic often demand more time and attention than most professionals can afford. People want clarity and practical insights. They want to understand a topic deeply, but without wading through 100 pages to find what matters.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>\u003Cstrong>That is why we are launching a new era of short, executive-style e-books at The Medical Futurist\u003C\u002Fstrong>!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>These editions are designed to be concise, visual, data-driven, and immediately useful. Each one explores a single topic with the precision of a briefing document and the depth of a curated research synthesis. More charts, more infographics, more timelines, more practical takeaways.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cblockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n\u003Cp>\u003Cstrong>Our goal is to help healthcare leaders, clinicians, technologists, and policymakers understand the future faster.\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003C\u002Fblockquote>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Our goal is to help healthcare leaders, clinicians, technologists, and policymakers understand the future faster.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\u003Cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2025\u002F12\u002FThe-Evolution-of-Digital-Health-Devices-_-Cover-768x432.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-59605\" srcset=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2025\u002F12\u002FThe-Evolution-of-Digital-Health-Devices-_-Cover-768x432.png 768w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2025\u002F12\u002FThe-Evolution-of-Digital-Health-Devices-_-Cover-370x208.png 370w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2025\u002F12\u002FThe-Evolution-of-Digital-Health-Devices-_-Cover-1536x865.png 1536w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2025\u002F12\u002FThe-Evolution-of-Digital-Health-Devices-_-Cover-2048x1153.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \u002F>\u003C\u002Ffigure>\n\n\n\n\u003Ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Why the \u003Cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Evolution\u003C\u002Fspan> of Digital Health Devices?\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>If there is one domain that tells the entire story of the digital health transformation, \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fleanpub.com\u002Ftheevolutionofdigitalhealthdevices\">it is the evolution of wearable and sensor technologies\u003C\u002Fa>. Wearables once belonged to niche hobbyists. Today, over a billion people use them, and their capabilities rival clinical tools:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003Cli>Wrist-worn ECGs detect atrial fibrillation\u003C\u002Fli>\n\n\n\n\u003Cli>Optical sensors estimate blood pressure\u003C\u002Fli>\n\n\n\n\u003Cli>Smart rings track HRV, sleep stages, stress and readiness\u003C\u002Fli>\n\n\n\n\u003Cli>Digital stethoscopes analyse heart and lung sounds with AI\u003C\u002Fli>\n\n\n\n\u003Cli>Glucose sensors unlock continuous metabolic data\u003C\u002Fli>\n\u003C\u002Ful>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>By analysing how these devices evolved—from early prototypes to today’s AI-supported, medically relevant instruments, we can understand where the next breakthroughs will emerge. 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