[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":310},["ShallowReactive",2],{"slug-the-amazing-world-of-music-and-digital-health":3},{"post":4,"relatedPosts":173,"relatedBooks":309},{"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,"comment_status":25,"ping_status":25,"sticky":26,"template":27,"format":28,"meta":29,"categories":30,"tags":33,"project_category":46,"contact_email_category":47,"yst_prominent_words":48,"class_list":54,"better_featured_image":75,"acf":108,"yoast_meta":117,"_links":120},21042,"2018-07-03T12:57:10","2018-07-03T10:57:10",{"rendered":9},"http:\u002F\u002Fapi.medicalfuturist.com\u002F?p=21042","2022-05-25T17:48:49","2022-05-25T15:48:49","the-amazing-world-of-music-and-digital-health","publish","post","https:\u002F\u002Fmedicalfuturist.com\u002Fthe-amazing-world-of-music-and-digital-health",{"rendered":17},"The Amazing World Of Music And Digital Health",{"rendered":19,"protected":20},"\n\u003Ctable style=\"width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; background-color: #eee; border-top: 4px solid #444;\" cellpadding=\"5px\">\n\u003Ctbody>\n\u003Ctr>\n\u003Ctd style=\"width: 100%;\">\n\u003Cp style=\"color: #555;font-size: 12px;line-height: 14px\">THIS ARTICLE HAS NOT BEEN UPDATED SINCE 2018. THE INFORMATION SHARED IN THE ARTICLE WAS ACCURATE AT THE TIME OF ITS PUBLICATION, BUT IT MAY BE OUT OF DATE NOW. \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fmedicalfuturist.com\u002Fmagazine\">BROWSE OUR LATEST ARTICLES HERE\u003C\u002Fa>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003C\u002Ftr>\u003C\u002Ftbody>\u003C\u002Ftable>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>We have an easy puzzle for you! What could reduce epileptic seizures, decrease depression levels and improve cognition for Alzheimer patients without a single dose of medication? There’s no magic applied, it’s “just” the incredible healing power of music. Let us further stun you how music and musical therapy facilitate healing; and how digital health can leverage the power of silver-toned melodies.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003C!--more-->\n\n\n\n\u003Ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003Cstrong>Talking about music is like dancing about architecture – but how about its power?\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>No wonder the above quote became so popular. The keyboard is just too dull to express in black-and-white letters what music means. Rhythm, beat, smooth harmonies or rough tunes, tickling voices calling to dance or a sad saxophone inviting to remember lost girlfriends. Perhaps \u003Cstrong>the power of music illustrates better how deep down well-placed melodies struck a chord in us, humans\u003C\u002Fstrong>.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>A study in connection with \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\u002Fpmc\u002Farticles\u002FPMC1281386\u002F\">the Mozart effect\u003C\u002Fa> showed that listening to Mozart’s Sonata for two pianos in D major, K.448, reduced epileptic seizures in South Korean children. Another \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\u002Fpubmed?Db=pubmed&Cmd=ShowDetailView&TermToSearch=22035368\">research showed\u003C\u002Fa> how depression levels of 50 older adults living in Singapore were decreased significantly after having listened to their choice of music for 30 minutes per week. That’s not even an entire Beyoncé album distributed for seven days! Moreover, listening to music or singing old songs \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\u002Fpmc\u002Farticles\u002FPMC5267457\u002F\">improves cognition for Alzheimer patients\u003C\u002Fa> significantly – they wander off less frequently, and their self-esteem rises.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Dr. János Kollár, a Hungarian clinical psychologist, music therapist, trainer and assistant professor of Semmelweis University, Institute of Behavioural Sciences told The Medical Futurist how he managed to move an autistic girl out of her own, very enclosed world with the help of a keyboard synthesizer. He explained how music therapy supports the healing process and in many cases, offers the out-of-the-box healing method when nothing else brings relief.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cfigure class=\"wp-block-image alignnone size-full wp-image-21044\">\u003Cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"870\" height=\"580\" src=\"http:\u002F\u002Fmedicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2018\u002F07\u002Fmusic-and-health.jpg\" alt=\"Music and digital health\" class=\"wp-image-21044\" srcset=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2018\u002F07\u002Fmusic-and-health.jpg 870w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2018\u002F07\u002Fmusic-and-health-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2018\u002F07\u002Fmusic-and-health-512x341.jpg 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 870px) 100vw, 870px\" \u002F>\u003Cfigcaption>Source: www.health.harvard.edu\u003C\u002Ffigcaption>\u003C\u002Ffigure>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>As \u003Cstrong>technologies could boost the easy access and spread of music for therapeutic purposes, we collected the many ways, in which digital solutions could help music build its beneficial impact\u003C\u002Fstrong>.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003Cstrong>The power of music in therapy\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>The concept of music therapy has a thousand-years-old history – \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\u002Fpmc\u002Farticles\u002FPMC2287209\u002F\">\u003Cem>The Yellow Emperor’s Classic of Medicine\u003C\u002Fem>\u003C\u002Fa> from 2600 BC contained long passages about pieces of music for finding balance and cognitive-mental health. The method resurfaced many times during history. However, Western medicine has not recognized and incorporated it until the first half of the 20th century. The canonization of the method happened around that time. \u003Cstrong>\u003Cem>Music therapy means the utilization of musical instruments and other means within a therapeutic framework to achieve specific pre-determined goals individually or in a group\u003C\u002Fem>\u003C\u002Fstrong>, said Dr. Kollár.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>It’s a supportive therapy to help healing processes, first of all for patients with mental health issues, fighting addictions, but physicians use it for stress management, rehabilitation, in hospice facilities, in schools, so the list is extensive. “\u003Cem>It helps anyone experience freedom, freshness, energy – which every patient needs, so basically, music is therapeutic everywhere\u003C\u002Fem>,” added Dr. Kollár. He recounted the story how a young, death metal fan with depression listened to Beethoven’s 7\u003Csup>th\u003C\u002Fsup> symphony 4\u003Csup>th\u003C\u002Fsup> movement and how it helped him verbalize his deeply buried psychological problems with symbols and metaphors that he was unable to talk about otherwise.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cfigure class=\"wp-block-image alignnone size-full wp-image-21046\">\u003Cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"870\" height=\"559\" src=\"http:\u002F\u002Fmedicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2018\u002F07\u002Fmusic-therapy.jpg\" alt=\"Music and digital health\" class=\"wp-image-21046\" srcset=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2018\u002F07\u002Fmusic-therapy.jpg 870w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2018\u002F07\u002Fmusic-therapy-768x493.jpg 768w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2018\u002F07\u002Fmusic-therapy-512x329.jpg 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 870px) 100vw, 870px\" \u002F>\u003Cfigcaption>Source: www.ucsfbenioffchildrens.org\u003C\u002Ffigcaption>\u003C\u002Ffigure>\n\n\n\n\u003Ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003Cstrong>Where do digital technologies come into the picture?\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Live concerts, iPods, smartphones, radio & TV channels, Amazon Prime Music, Apple Music, Google Play Music, iHeartRadio, Pandora, Spotify, or SoundCloud – it seems that our options for listening to music are endless. Moreover, \u003Cstrong>digital technologies for therapeutic purposes or overall health and well-being also recognized the power of music and started to incorporate into their means\u003C\u002Fstrong>. For example, fitness trackers also identified the potential of music for motivating athletes: \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fmedicalfuturist.com\u002Ffitbit-ionic-review-bromance-pebble-smartwatch\">Fitbit Ionic can store 300 songs\u003C\u002Fa>, the \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.wareable.com\u002Frunning\u002Fthe-best-fitness-watches-with-music-playback\">Garmin Forerunner has enough room for 500 melodies\u003C\u002Fa>, etc. The entire range, however, is way more extensive than that – from music for babies until medical facilities, we found plenty of creative solutions regarding health technologies and music.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003Cstrong>Happy babies listen to music \u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>While research in this area is in its infancy, and positive effects have not yet been proven irrefutably; music is said to have all kinds of positive impact on the baby, for example, they produce a more balanced sleeping pattern with the help of music. \u003Cstrong>Some state that babies who hear the same music that was played while in the womb fall asleep faster and sleep longer than babies who did not hear any melodies\u003C\u002Fstrong>.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Currently, there are various gadgets and devices to play music safely to the unborn child. Ritmo Pregnancy provides expectant families with a simple way to safely and effectively deliver sounds. \u003Ca href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.telegraph.co.uk\u002Fnews\u002Fnewstopics\u002Fhowaboutthat\u002F7040466\u002FPregnancy-sound-system-lets-mothers-introduce-their-unborn-babies-to-music.html\">Oren Oz, a father-of-two\u003C\u002Fa> invented the Ritmo system, after his wife had struggled to play music to her unborn child during her second pregnancy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Sound Beginnings’ high-quality speakers are designed to keep the volume to a level that is safe for babies. Lullabelly is a prenatal music belt that can be used whether the expectant mother is on the go or just relaxing at home. It has a patented hands-free design, is easy to use and safe for the baby. Bellybuds are also used to deliver special music to the fetus through the belly belt with high-quality speakers. I would only advise parents not to expose the fetus to too much music or too loud sounds, here as in so many areas of life, temperance is vital.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cfigure class=\"wp-block-image alignnone size-full wp-image-21047\">\u003Cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"870\" height=\"653\" src=\"http:\u002F\u002Fmedicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2018\u002F07\u002Fhappy-baby-listens-to-music.jpg\" alt=\"Music and digital health\" class=\"wp-image-21047\" srcset=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2018\u002F07\u002Fhappy-baby-listens-to-music.jpg 870w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2018\u002F07\u002Fhappy-baby-listens-to-music-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2018\u002F07\u002Fhappy-baby-listens-to-music-512x384.jpg 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 870px) 100vw, 870px\" \u002F>\u003Cfigcaption>Source: www.babygogo.in\u003C\u002Ffigcaption>\u003C\u002Ffigure>\n\n\n\n\u003Ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003Cstrong>Music cleans the soul, releases stress and maintains mental health\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>The healing power of music is an integral part of \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fmedicalfuturist.com\u002Fimprove-mental-health-with-technology\">mental hygiene and stress management tools\u003C\u002Fa>. It changes the mood, makes stress release easier, diverts attention from pain-points, and makes even sleep better and more relaxing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>The \u003Ca href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.choosemuse.com\u002F\">Muse headband\u003C\u002Fa>, a brain-sensing device, teaches you how to meditate well through music. It uses breathing exercises to the sound of waves (neutral), storms (bad) and tweeting birds (good) which indicate how focused and calm you are. The \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.calm.com\u002F\">Calm app\u003C\u002Fa> also uses beautiful music and calming scenes to guide the user through meditation. The Soulight app, a “mobile wellbeing companion” helps boost emotional health, prevent anxiety and alleviate depression with music therapy, mindfulness, and positive psychology. \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.mindrazr.com\u002F\">MindRazr\u003C\u002Fa> also harnesses the power of music to improve overall health and well-being.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Nevertheless, music does not only work as a soothing tool; it can boost your concentration, too. The \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.focusatwill.com\u002F\">Focus@Will music service\u003C\u002Fa> proves that. The Los Angeles-based company determines your personality type through a couple of test questions; then offers the appropriate music genre to improve your focus. Based on their survey of 22,000 active users, focus time increased more than 200-400 percent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cfigure class=\"wp-block-image alignnone size-full wp-image-21045\">\u003Cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"870\" height=\"612\" src=\"http:\u002F\u002Fmedicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2018\u002F07\u002Fthe-sound-of-productivity.jpg\" alt=\"Music and digital health\" class=\"wp-image-21045\" srcset=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2018\u002F07\u002Fthe-sound-of-productivity.jpg 870w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2018\u002F07\u002Fthe-sound-of-productivity-768x540.jpg 768w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2018\u002F07\u002Fthe-sound-of-productivity-512x360.jpg 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 870px) 100vw, 870px\" \u002F>\u003Cfigcaption>Source: www.businesshealthy.org\u003C\u002Ffigcaption>\u003C\u002Ffigure>\n\n\n\n\u003Ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003Cstrong>Patients heal better and need less pain medication with music\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Dr. Kollar explained that in Germany, there are certain hospitals where the patient can decide before a major operation whether or not he wants to listen to music during the procedure. It doesn’t matter whether the intervention requires anesthesia or not, music has positive postoperative effects: the patient needs less medication and healing is faster.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Several studies have proven the efficiency of music during operation. For example, \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\u002Fpubmed\u002F15816586\">researchers divided 75 patients undergoing open hernia repair into three groups\u003C\u002Fa>: intraoperative music, postoperative music, and silence (control group). They assessed stress response during and after surgery and found that in case patients who listened to music during or after surgery, their stress levels decreased – they needed significantly fewer painkillers and experienced less anxiety.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Surgery is not the only field where music helps ease patients’ situations. \u003Ca href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.healthcarebusinesstech.com\u002Fmusic-patients-staff\u002F\">Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh decided to see\u003C\u002Fa> if providing patients with the comfort of familiar music could help. It did. Patients on mechanical ventilation were allowed to listen to music of their choosing every other day for 60 minutes. On days patients listened to music, they demonstrated significant decreases in respiratory rate, heart rate, anxiety and shortness of breath compared to non-music days.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cfigure class=\"wp-block-image alignnone size-full wp-image-21048\">\u003Cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"870\" height=\"489\" src=\"http:\u002F\u002Fmedicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2018\u002F07\u002Fbrain-surgery.jpg\" alt=\"Music and digital health\" class=\"wp-image-21048\" srcset=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2018\u002F07\u002Fbrain-surgery.jpg 870w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2018\u002F07\u002Fbrain-surgery-370x208.jpg 370w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2018\u002F07\u002Fbrain-surgery-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2018\u002F07\u002Fbrain-surgery-512x288.jpg 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 870px) 100vw, 870px\" \u002F>\u003Cfigcaption>Source: www.theglobeandmail.com\u003C\u002Ffigcaption>\u003C\u002Ffigure>\n\n\n\n\u003Ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003Cstrong>Calming sounds instead of screaming alarms for hospital staff\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Hospitals and other medical facilities are surrounded by the cacophony of constant beeps and alarms – most of them keeping the nurses constantly busy checking patient rooms. Often, the signals are false, which ends up causing “alarm fatigue,” as \u003Ca href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fcommunity.advanceweb.com\u002Fblogs\u002Fnurses3\u002Farchive\u002F2013\u002F05\u002F22\u002F3-ways-technology-can-help-nurses-spend-more-time-at-patients-bedside.aspx\">this article\u003C\u002Fa> refers to it. While we are a long way from designing a smart alarm system, one company decided to turn the disturbing noises into enchanting music.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>The audio branding studio \u003Ca href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.manmademusic.com\u002F\">Man Made Music\u003C\u002Fa> designed a new system taking a novel approach to the monitoring of patients’ vital signs, like heart rate, blood pressure, and blood oxygen saturation, with pleasant-sounding melodies instead of alarms. The idea is that \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.fastcodesign.com\u002F90171905\u002Fhospital-sound-design-can-be-deadly\">a doctor can learn, with little training, to detect if a patient’s vitals are normal\u003C\u002Fa> – and when they’re not based on this musical representation of the data. The approach helps both patients and medical staff wearing off the effects of screaming alarms.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cfigure class=\"wp-block-image alignnone size-full wp-image-21049\">\u003Cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"870\" height=\"489\" src=\"http:\u002F\u002Fmedicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2018\u002F07\u002Falarm-fatigue-ucsf-nursing.jpg\" alt=\"Music and digital health\" class=\"wp-image-21049\" srcset=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2018\u002F07\u002Falarm-fatigue-ucsf-nursing.jpg 870w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2018\u002F07\u002Falarm-fatigue-ucsf-nursing-370x208.jpg 370w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2018\u002F07\u002Falarm-fatigue-ucsf-nursing-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2018\u002F07\u002Falarm-fatigue-ucsf-nursing-512x288.jpg 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 870px) 100vw, 870px\" \u002F>\u003Cfigcaption>Source: www.ucsf.edu\u003C\u002Ffigcaption>\u003C\u002Ffigure>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>The benefits of music are endless in healthcare, and the future might hold strange options to music therapy, and to experience sounds in other dimensions. Neil Harbisson, \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.theguardian.com\u002Fartanddesign\u002F2014\u002Fmay\u002F06\u002Fneil-harbisson-worlds-first-cyborg-artist\">one of the world’s first cyborgs, can hear images and paint sounds\u003C\u002Fa> due to an implant countering a rare form of color blindness. He believes Amy Winehouse is red and pink, while the telephone ring sounds green. It’s a useful trait – beyond helping him see colors, it makes talking about music easier, too, after all.\u003C\u002Fp>\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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Let us further stun you how music and musical therapy facilitate healing; and how digital health can leverage the power of silver-toned melodies.\u003C\u002Fp>\n",6,21043,"closed",true,"","standard",{"_acf_changed":20,"footnotes":27},[31,32],521,499,[34,35,36,37,38,39,40,41,42,43,44,45],207,923,246,960,313,328,355,453,545,630,206,894,[],[],[49,50,51,52,53],1571,1631,1723,1729,1883,[55,14,56,57,58,59,60,61,62,63,64,65,66,67,68,69,70,71,72,73,74],"post-21042","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-future-medicine","category-healthcare-design","tag-digital-health","tag-health-apps","tag-future","tag-music-therapy","tag-medicine","tag-music-2","tag-personalized-medicine","tag-wearables-2","tag-sensors","tag-digital-technology","tag-digital","tag-mental-health",{"id":24,"alt_text":76,"caption":27,"description":27,"media_type":77,"media_details":78,"post":5,"source_url":107},"Music and digital health","image",{"width":79,"height":80,"file":81,"sizes":82,"image_meta":104},870,489,"2018\u002F07\u002Fmusic-and-digital-health.png",{"medium":83,"large":89,"thumbnail":94,"medium_large":98,"large_old_512x288":99},{"file":84,"width":85,"height":86,"mime-type":87,"source_url":88},"music-and-digital-health-370x208.png",370,208,"image\u002Fpng","https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2018\u002F07\u002Fmusic-and-digital-health-370x208.png",{"file":90,"width":91,"height":92,"mime-type":87,"source_url":93},"music-and-digital-health-768x432.png",768,432,"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2018\u002F07\u002Fmusic-and-digital-health-768x432.png",{"file":95,"width":96,"height":96,"mime-type":87,"source_url":97},"music-and-digital-health-150x150.png",150,"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2018\u002F07\u002Fmusic-and-digital-health-150x150.png",{"file":90,"width":91,"height":92,"mime-type":87,"source_url":93},{"file":100,"width":101,"height":102,"mime-type":87,"source_url":103},"music-and-digital-health-512x288.png",512,288,"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2018\u002F07\u002Fmusic-and-digital-health-512x288.png",{"aperture":105,"credit":27,"camera":27,"caption":27,"created_timestamp":105,"copyright":27,"focal_length":105,"iso":105,"shutter_speed":105,"title":27,"orientation":105,"keywords":106},"0",[],"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2018\u002F07\u002Fmusic-and-digital-health.png",{"related_posts":109,"related_posts_footer":113,"cta_type":27,"cta_color":27,"subtitle":27,"related_books":20},[110,111,112],17731,17801,17139,[114,115,116],13296,11325,16292,{"yoast_wpseo_title":118,"yoast_wpseo_metadesc":119,"yoast_wpseo_canonical":15},"The Amazing World Of Music And Digital Health - The Medical Futurist","Music has incredible healing power. 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THE INFORMATION SHARED IN THE ARTICLE WAS ACCURATE AT THE TIME OF ITS PUBLICATION, BUT IT MAY BE OUT OF DATE NOW. \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fmedicalfuturist.com\u002Fmagazine\">BROWSE OUR LATEST ARTICLES HERE\u003C\u002Fa>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003C\u002Ftr>\u003C\u002Ftbody>\u003C\u002Ftable>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>With the fast advancement of digital technologies and the allure of entrepreneurial lifestyle, plenty of people in different professions turn to coding thinking that the future will require even more IT skills than today. Although I do not question the importance of digital literacy in general, I believe medical professionals should rather master soft skills and acquire a futurist mindset than go for coding if they truly want to prepare for the coming decades.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003C!--more-->\n\n\n\n\u003Ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003Cstrong>Automation, A.I., and robotics turn the job market upside down\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>At the dawn of the \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.weforum.org\u002Fpages\u002Fthe-fourth-industrial-revolution-by-klaus-schwab\u002F\">Fourth Industrial Revolution\u003C\u002Fa>, automation and digitization of our worlds and workplace are continuing, changing the job market, the nature of many jobs and even the concept of what it means to be working. Many fear that robots and automation will take their jobs without alternatives. The phenomenon is not new: in the 19\u003Csup>th\u003C\u002Fsup> century, members of the Luddite movement – textile workers and weavers – destroyed weaving machinery in protest and fear that machines would take their place in their industry.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Lately, the same fears emerge in healthcare about \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fmedicalfuturist.com\u002Fthe-future-of-radiology-and-ai\u002F\">artificial intelligence taking the jobs of radiologists\u003C\u002Fa>, robots surpassing the skills of surgeons, or \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.forbes.com\u002Fsites\u002Fbernardmarr\u002F2016\u002F04\u002F25\u002Fsurprisingly-these-10-professional-jobs-are-under-threat-from-big-data\u002F#322bade7426b\">taking jobs in pharma\u003C\u002Fa>. A renowned voice in tech, Kai-Fu Lee, founder of venture capital firm Sinovation Ventures \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.cnbc.com\u002F2017\u002F04\u002F27\u002Fkai-fu-lee-robots-will-replace-half-of-all-jobs.html\">told CNBC that\u003C\u002Fa> A.I. will be bigger than all other tech revolutions, and robots are likely to replace 50 percent of all jobs in the next decade. \u003Ca href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.bbc.com\u002Fnews\u002Ftechnology-30290540\">Stephen Hawking even said that\u003C\u002Fa> the development of full A.I. could spell the end of the human race. Elon Musk agreed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cfigure class=\"wp-block-image\">\u003Cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"870\" height=\"489\" src=\"https:\u002F\u002F1712507217.rsc.cdn77.org\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2017\u002F09\u002Fcognitive-computing.png\" alt=\"empathy\" class=\"wp-image-16293\" srcset=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2017\u002F09\u002Fcognitive-computing.png 870w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2017\u002F09\u002Fcognitive-computing-370x208.png 370w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2017\u002F09\u002Fcognitive-computing-768x432.png 768w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2017\u002F09\u002Fcognitive-computing-512x288.png 512w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2017\u002F09\u002Fcognitive-computing-444x250.png 444w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 870px) 100vw, 870px\" \u002F>\u003C\u002Ffigure>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003Cstrong>Is basic income tax the solution? Or turning to coding?\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>As the fears of losing the battle against new technologies grow exponentially, alternatives on the individual and social level already surfaced. The \u003Ca href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.businessinsider.com\u002Fpolicy-responses-to-automation-and-robots-taking-jobs-2017-4\">most popular policy-level concept\u003C\u002Fa> is the introduction of the universal basic income, in which case the government would give everyone just enough money to live on while creating incentives for individuals to take risks, start businesses, change jobs, return to school or try a new career. Another idea is the negative income tax, where the state would give the poor money the same way as in the case of taxing rich people; but \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.youtube.com\u002Fwatch?v=nccryZOcrUg\">Bill Gates would tax robots\u003C\u002Fa> and some \u003Ca href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.businessinsider.com\u002Fpolicy-responses-to-automation-and-robots-taking-jobs-2017-4\">economists think the solution lies at the heart of governments creating more jobs\u003C\u002Fa>.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>While these responses for the challenges of automation and digital technologies are only ideas at the moment – except for the \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.theguardian.com\u002Fsociety\u002F2017\u002Ffeb\u002F19\u002Fbasic-income-finland-low-wages-fewer-jobs\">national-scale experiment of Finland with universal basic income\u003C\u002Fa> -, it is natural that people are making steps to secure their own futures. No wonder that so many are considering to give up their current profession and try their luck in programming, coding, and entrepreneurship in general. As it seems that the hottest professions of the day are those dealing with \u003Ca href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.businessinsider.com\u002Fskills-that-can-get-you-hired-2016-10\">data science, coding and computing\u003C\u002Fa>. While many think that it might even be the case in healthcare, I believe that if someone truly pictures himself or herself among medical professionals in the future, other skills, such as the futurist mindset and social skills coupled with sound digital literacy might be more important than coding or entrepreneurial spirit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cfigure class=\"wp-block-image\">\u003Cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"870\" height=\"489\" src=\"https:\u002F\u002F1712507217.rsc.cdn77.org\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2017\u002F09\u002Fcoding.jpg\" alt=\"Empathy\" class=\"wp-image-16296\" srcset=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2017\u002F09\u002Fcoding.jpg 870w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2017\u002F09\u002Fcoding-370x208.jpg 370w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2017\u002F09\u002Fcoding-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2017\u002F09\u002Fcoding-512x288.jpg 512w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2017\u002F09\u002Fcoding-444x250.jpg 444w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 870px) 100vw, 870px\" \u002F>\u003C\u002Ffigure>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003Cstrong>The importance of the futurist mindset\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>I’m not saying that everyone should get a crystal ball and concentrate strongly on what it is trying to say. Yet, it is important to look ahead and continuously monitor the current trends with a notion of how it might affect one’s job, family or environment in general. Personal computers, laptops are only around for a couple of decades, not to speak about the wonder called world wide web! In the 1950s, no one would have thought that a little bit more than 60 years later, the most pursued jobs and skills will be those of the data scientists and coders.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Many jobs that might be around in healthcare in a couple of years, do not exist yet. What if we will have robot companion technicians soon? What about \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fmedicalfuturist.com\u002Fnew-jobs-future-healthcare-medicine-part-ii\u002F\">gamification specialists or AR\u002FVR operation planners\u003C\u002Fa>? While they all might be possible, you cannot really prepare for them only by studying more coding or data science. What everyone needs to understand is that the most important is to familiarize with the latest technologies and prepare for the changes in time. We have to have meaningful conversations about how such changes affect people and the future generations. For example, \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fmedicalfuturist.com\u002Fkid-will-play-friends-learn-vr-teachers\u002F\">the generation born today will play with AI friends and have VR teachers\u003C\u002Fa>. That might come with a completely different view on the worlds as ours today, so we need to be open, mindful and curious. Just as a futurist!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cfigure class=\"wp-block-image\">\u003Cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"870\" height=\"486\" src=\"https:\u002F\u002F1712507217.rsc.cdn77.org\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2017\u002F09\u002Fprint.jpg\" alt=\"Empathy\" class=\"wp-image-16297\" srcset=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2017\u002F09\u002Fprint.jpg 870w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2017\u002F09\u002Fprint-370x208.jpg 370w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2017\u002F09\u002Fprint-768x429.jpg 768w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2017\u002F09\u002Fprint-512x286.jpg 512w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2017\u002F09\u002Fprint-447x250.jpg 447w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 870px) 100vw, 870px\" \u002F>\u003C\u002Ffigure>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003Cstrong>Social skills and empathy\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>In healthcare, soft skills such as empathy – and the jobs connected with it will be valued more and more in the future. It makes complete sense. Automation, robots and artificial intelligence will perform certain cognitive tasks brilliantly to the extent that humans will not be able to compete. Where could humans have a chance? At the so-called soft skills: creativity, empathy, compassion and paying attention to each other. Although artificial intelligence will perform diagnostic tasks or robots might be able to do surgeries, but could they talk to a patient with empathy about the risks and consequences of an operation?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Moreover, as digital health simplifies administration and cuts down on monotonous tasks, the workload of doctors and nurses will be reduced, so they will be able to concentrate on what really matters – healing the patient and guiding him through the entire process with care. I think, eventually, AI would be able to mimic even such soft skills but as we are social beings, we will always need the human touch.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>The shift towards jobs requiring soft skills already shows in the numbers. The US Bureau of Labor Statistics predicts that while jobs for doctors and surgeons will \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.bls.gov\u002Fooh\u002Fhealthcare\u002Fphysicians-and-surgeons.htm\">rise\u003C\u002Fa> by 14 per cent between 2014 and 2024, the top three direct-care jobs – personal-care aide, home-health aide, and nursing assistant – are expected to grow by 26 per cent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>However, as Livia Gershon writes \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Faeon.co\u002Fessays\u002Fthe-key-to-jobs-in-the-future-is-not-college-but-compassion\">here\u003C\u002Fa>, we seriously need to rethink our perspective towards jobs requiring social skills; as they are usually underpaid and undervalued. As care work and other types of labor containing mainly soft skills cannot contribute to the GDP growth as effectively as other types, the global economic system cannot value it appropriately. However, as the age of artificial intelligence and robots is coming, soft skills become much more valued and those who plan to enter the social care sector now will reap the benefit of it – not to speak about patients and society in general!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cfigure class=\"wp-block-image\">\u003Cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"870\" height=\"653\" src=\"https:\u002F\u002F1712507217.rsc.cdn77.org\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2017\u002F09\u002Fchildcare.jpg\" alt=\"Empathy\" class=\"wp-image-16299\" srcset=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2017\u002F09\u002Fchildcare.jpg 870w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2017\u002F09\u002Fchildcare-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2017\u002F09\u002Fchildcare-512x384.jpg 512w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2017\u002F09\u002Fchildcare-333x250.jpg 333w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 870px) 100vw, 870px\" \u002F>\u003C\u002Ffigure>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003Cstrong>Digital literacy\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Although I argue against medical professionals massively going into coding and programming in general, I am certainly not against digital technology and digital literacy. On the contrary! I believe that it is way more important than many other skills in today’s digital world. I only think that it is more relevant to interact and use technology than to understand it down to the tiniest detail. Especially for medical professionals.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Although in the future, it also might change what digital literacy means. Plenty of schools started to incorporate the basics of computer science, coding and programming into their courses. For example, former US President Barack Obama announced a ‘computer science for all’ program for elementary and high schools in the United States. And while I’m all for STEM education, I would be happy to see schools focusing more on voluntary work in helping the elderly or other groups of people in need, as what kids learn there might be more valuable than Python in the future.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cfigure class=\"wp-block-image\">\u003Cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"870\" height=\"580\" src=\"https:\u002F\u002F1712507217.rsc.cdn77.org\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2017\u002F09\u002Fsocial-skills-school.jpg\" alt=\"Empathy\" class=\"wp-image-16300\" srcset=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2017\u002F09\u002Fsocial-skills-school.jpg 870w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2017\u002F09\u002Fsocial-skills-school-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2017\u002F09\u002Fsocial-skills-school-512x341.jpg 512w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2017\u002F09\u002Fsocial-skills-school-375x250.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 870px) 100vw, 870px\" \u002F>\u003C\u002Ffigure>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>While acquiring new skills related to digital technologies, of course, makes sense, in healthcare, it might make even more sense to focus on skills we should have been good at but the nature of our profession didn’t allow it. With disruptive technologies, physicians would finally have time to focus on the patient, deal with challenging decisions and enjoy their profession again.\u003C\u002Fp>\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>. A community of empowered patients, future-oriented healthcare professionals, concerned health policymakers, sensible health tech developers, and enthusiastic medical students. If there were ever a time to join us, it is now. Every contribution, however big or small, powers our research and sustains our future.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.patreon.com\u002Fthemedicalfuturist\">\u003Cstrong style=\"background-color: #e71d3299; color: #000;\">Click here to support The Medical Futurist from as little as $3\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fa> – it only takes a minute. Thank you.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003C\u002Ftr>\n\u003C\u002Ftbody>\n\u003C\u002Ftable>\n\u003Cp> \u003C\u002Fp>\n",{"rendered":188,"protected":20},"\u003Cp>With the fast advancement of digital technologies and the allure of entrepreneurial lifestyle, plenty of people in different professions turn to coding thinking that the future will require even more IT skills than today. Although I do not question the importance of digital literacy in general, I believe medical professionals should rather master soft skills and acquire a futurist mindset than go for coding if they truly want to prepare for the coming decades.\u003C\u002Fp>\n",16301,{"_acf_changed":20,"footnotes":27},[31],[193,194,195,196,197,198,199,200,201,36,202,203,204],520,693,728,134,729,137,730,144,731,275,289,377,[],[],[53,208,209,210,211,212,213],2675,4913,1681,1715,1737,1739,[215,14,56,57,58,59,60,61,216,217,218,219,220,221,222,223,224,65,225,226,227],"post-16292","tag-gc2","tag-it","tag-empathy","tag-ai","tag-social-skills","tag-algorithm","tag-coding","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-job-market","tag-healthcare","tag-innovation","tag-robotics-2",{"id":189,"alt_text":229,"caption":230,"description":27,"media_type":77,"media_details":231,"post":116,"source_url":255},"Empathy","Source: www.scoop.it",{"width":79,"height":80,"file":232,"sizes":233,"image_meta":253},"2017\u002F09\u002Fempathy-not-coding.jpg",{"medium":234,"large":238,"thumbnail":241,"medium_large":244,"large_old_512x288":245,"medium_old_444x250":248},{"file":235,"width":85,"height":86,"mime-type":236,"source_url":237},"empathy-not-coding-370x208.jpg","image\u002Fjpeg","https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2017\u002F09\u002Fempathy-not-coding-370x208.jpg",{"file":239,"width":91,"height":92,"mime-type":236,"source_url":240},"empathy-not-coding-768x432.jpg","https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2017\u002F09\u002Fempathy-not-coding-768x432.jpg",{"file":242,"width":96,"height":96,"mime-type":236,"source_url":243},"empathy-not-coding-150x150.jpg","https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2017\u002F09\u002Fempathy-not-coding-150x150.jpg",{"file":239,"width":91,"height":92,"mime-type":236,"source_url":240},{"file":246,"width":101,"height":102,"mime-type":236,"source_url":247},"empathy-not-coding-512x288.jpg","https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2017\u002F09\u002Fempathy-not-coding-512x288.jpg",{"file":249,"width":250,"height":251,"mime-type":236,"source_url":252},"empathy-not-coding-444x250.jpg",444,250,"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2017\u002F09\u002Fempathy-not-coding-444x250.jpg",{"aperture":105,"credit":27,"camera":27,"caption":27,"created_timestamp":105,"copyright":27,"focal_length":105,"iso":105,"shutter_speed":105,"title":27,"orientation":105,"keywords":254},[],"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2017\u002F09\u002Fempathy-not-coding.jpg",{"related_posts":257,"related_posts_footer":261,"cta_type":27,"cta_color":27,"subtitle":27,"related_books":20},[258,259,260],16375,23464,17898,[262,263,264],22321,21271,20965,{"yoast_wpseo_title":266,"yoast_wpseo_metadesc":267,"yoast_wpseo_canonical":182},"The Future Is About Empathy, Not Coding - 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