[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":322},["ShallowReactive",2],{"slug-the-role-of-medical-associations-in-the-digital-health-era":3},{"post":4,"relatedPosts":198,"relatedBooks":321},{"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":52,"contact_email_category":53,"yst_prominent_words":54,"class_list":63,"better_featured_image":90,"acf":133,"yoast_meta":142,"_links":145},22834,"2019-01-29T13:00:29","2019-01-29T11:00:29",{"rendered":9},"https:\u002F\u002Fmedicalfuturist.com\u002F","2022-05-18T18:11:58","2022-05-18T16:11:58","the-role-of-medical-associations-in-the-digital-health-era","publish","post","https:\u002F\u002Fmedicalfuturist.com\u002Fthe-role-of-medical-associations-in-the-digital-health-era",{"rendered":17},"The Role Of Medical Associations In The Digital Health Era",{"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 2019. THE INFORMATION SHARED IN THE ARTICLE WAS ACCURATE AT THE TIME OF ITS PUBLICATION, BUT IT MAY BE OUT OF DATE NOW.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>The Digital Health Implementation Playbook, released by the AMA recently, marks an essential step in the expansion of the functions of medical associations as promoters of digital health and as guides for application of disruptive solutions in the 21\u003Csup>st\u003C\u002Fsup> century. Here, we provide an overview of the development paths of medical associations from book clubs until advocacy networks – and draw up a potential way towards digitally savvy innovation hubs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003C!--more-->\n\n\n\n\u003Ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003Cstrong>From medical book clubs to knowledge societies\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Societies, associations or groups comprising of doctors, pharmacists or other representatives of the medical profession have been present since the 18th century, mainly the revolution of science and the dawn of modern medicine. John Coakley Lettsom, who founded the Medical Society of London in 1773, which invited both physicians, surgeons and apothecaries in its ranks, \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\u002Fpmc\u002Farticles\u002FPMC5277686\u002Fpdf\u002Fedinbmedj74454-0001.pdf\">said that the association should be\u003C\u002Fa> “\u003Cem>A Society of medical practitioners of various ranks who would meet together to compare their observations and compare their thoughts mutually, taking note of new discoveries at home and abroad\u003C\u002Fem>”.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>\u003Cstrong>The noble task of sharing knowledge, exchanging thoughts and the results of the latest research was the primary task of medical societies in the 18\u003Csup>th\u003C\u002Fsup>-19\u003Csup>th\u003C\u002Fsup> century as the exchange of information was way more limited than today\u003C\u002Fstrong>. That’s why in many cases, medical book clubs turned into organizations representing the medical profession. Education and setting the standards for excellence for the job – for example in the framework of recommendations or clinical practice guidelines – have remained ever since the cornerstones of medical associations.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cfigure class=\"wp-block-image alignnone size-full wp-image-22835\">\u003Cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"782\" height=\"552\" src=\"https:\u002F\u002F1712507217.rsc.cdn77.org\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2019\u002F01\u002FHistory-Of-Medicine.png\" alt=\"medical associations\" class=\"wp-image-22835\" srcset=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2019\u002F01\u002FHistory-Of-Medicine.png 782w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2019\u002F01\u002FHistory-Of-Medicine-768x542.png 768w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2019\u002F01\u002FHistory-Of-Medicine-512x361.png 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 782px) 100vw, 782px\" \u002F>\u003Cfigcaption>Source: www.gruil.com\u003C\u002Ffigcaption>\u003C\u002Ffigure>\n\n\n\n\u003Ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003Cstrong>Present-day functions of medical associations\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>\u003Cstrong>The original function of connecting colleagues for exchanging knowledge and creating a platform for discussions has been considerably widened. Beyond keeping their members informed through all means of communication – newsletters, websites, e-mails, conferences, medical associations undertook the causes of medical professionals by advocating for their rights and interests, assisting doctors in protecting the interests of their patients or helping settle their disputes.\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>On a more macro-level, if a physician belongs to a medical society, he or she is \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.britannica.com\u002Ftopic\u002FAmerican-Medical-Association\">tapped into a broader professional network\u003C\u002Fa> whose mission is to inform members about the newest, best practices. Along these lines, the association has all the means as well as the pool to give guidance and direction to doctors and other medical professionals about the present as well as the future of their profession. Moreover, it could also provide tools to prepare for the coming changes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Also, a medical association with thousands of members is able to create large-scale collaborations and undertake large surveys. For example, \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.healthcareglobal.com\u002Ftechnology\u002Fgoogle-partners-american-medical-association-promote-data-sharing\">the American Medical Association (AMA) partnered with Google\u003C\u002Fa> to find new ways to share data within the AMA’s Healthcare Interoperability and Innovation Challenge.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cfigure class=\"wp-block-image alignnone size-full wp-image-22836\">\u003Cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"870\" height=\"692\" src=\"https:\u002F\u002F1712507217.rsc.cdn77.org\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2019\u002F01\u002FMedical-Associations.jpg\" alt=\"medical associations\" class=\"wp-image-22836\" srcset=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2019\u002F01\u002FMedical-Associations.jpg 870w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2019\u002F01\u002FMedical-Associations-768x611.jpg 768w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2019\u002F01\u002FMedical-Associations-512x407.jpg 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 870px) 100vw, 870px\" \u002F>\u003Cfigcaption>Source: www.cmajnews.com\u003C\u002Ffigcaption>\u003C\u002Ffigure>\n\n\n\n\u003Ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003Cstrong>Digital health and medical associations\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>The exponential growth in the availability of health technologies coupled with the slow change in the field of regulations and healthcare policy creates a situation in which the institution of medical associations could strengthen. \u003Cstrong>Physicians, nurses, surgeons, medical students, and other medical professionals are looking for yardsticks to smoothly take the transition from “analog” to digital healthcare systems, and medical associations have all the means to give a helping hand\u003C\u002Fstrong>. They have a structure to educate actors of the healthcare scene about the latest technological changes, how to integrate digital health achievements into practices or they might even finance specific projects in the area of digital health or health IT.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Medical associations could also provide a long-term vision about the future of healthcare and help tackle the hurdles in front of reaching a desired state of play. Thus, these societies have a huge responsibility in preparing doctors and nurses for the coming years. In the more and more complex digital, financial and scientific life, physicians could feel left alone, not to say left behind, without the efficient support of umbrella organizations.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cfigure class=\"wp-block-image alignnone size-full wp-image-22838\">\u003Cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"870\" height=\"265\" src=\"https:\u002F\u002F1712507217.rsc.cdn77.org\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2019\u002F01\u002FDoctor-Of-The-Future.jpeg\" alt=\"medical associations\" class=\"wp-image-22838\" srcset=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2019\u002F01\u002FDoctor-Of-The-Future.jpeg 870w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2019\u002F01\u002FDoctor-Of-The-Future-768x234.jpeg 768w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2019\u002F01\u002FDoctor-Of-The-Future-512x156.jpeg 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 870px) 100vw, 870px\" \u002F>\u003Cfigcaption>Source: www.doctors20.com\u003C\u002Ffigcaption>\u003C\u002Ffigure>\n\n\n\n\u003Ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003Cstrong>At the forefront of innovation\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Naturally, \u003Cstrong>medical associations can only provide efficient help if they understand digital health and the cultural transformation around it; if they can pinpoint the hurdles physicians are dealing with and can offer expertise to efficiently solve them\u003C\u002Fstrong>.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Luckily, numerous professional organizations are keeping pace with the times. The \u003Ca href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.commonwealthdoctors.org\">Commonwealth Medical Association\u003C\u002Fa> set up the \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcwcdh.org\u002F\">Commonwealth Center for Digital Health\u003C\u002Fa> and launched the institution in April 2018. With a central hub based in London, the CCDH has the goal to promote digital transformation in healthcare. In collaboration with regional centers in the Commonwealth nations, the organization supports the implementation and clinical application of digital health technologies, acts as an incubator for agile start-ups, and offers education in the area of digital health.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>The \u003Ca href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.bundesaerztekammer.de\u002F\">German Medical Association\u003C\u002Fa> has uplifted former restrictions for doctors to provide telemedical services to patients in the summer of 2018. The move promotes the expansion of telemedicine and, in a broader sense, digital health. Also, the \u003Ca href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.ima-india.org\u002Fima\u002F\">Indian Medical Association\u003C\u002Fa> is \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Feconomictimes.indiatimes.com\u002Findustry\u002Fhealthcare\u002Fbiotech\u002Fhealthcare\u002Findian-medical-association-drawing-up-digital-code-of-conduct\u002Farticleshow\u002F46952496.cms\">drawing up a digital code of conduct for doctors\u003C\u002Fa> to help them maintain the profession’s code of ethics as a growing number of portals connect them with patients.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cfigure class=\"wp-block-image alignnone size-full wp-image-22839\">\u003Cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"870\" height=\"429\" src=\"https:\u002F\u002F1712507217.rsc.cdn77.org\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2019\u002F01\u002FDoctor-Patient-Conversation.jpg\" alt=\"medical associations\" class=\"wp-image-22839\" srcset=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2019\u002F01\u002FDoctor-Patient-Conversation.jpg 870w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2019\u002F01\u002FDoctor-Patient-Conversation-768x378.jpg 768w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2019\u002F01\u002FDoctor-Patient-Conversation-512x252.jpg 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 870px) 100vw, 870px\" \u002F>\u003Cfigcaption>Source: www.theconversation.com\u003C\u002Ffigcaption>\u003C\u002Ffigure>\n\n\n\n\u003Ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003Cstrong>The AMA and its Digital Health Implementation Playbook\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>The AMA, founded in 1847 and having about 240,000 members, invested considerable time and energy into guiding physicians in the US towards digital health. \u003Cstrong>One of the latest examples is the publishing of the \u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003Cstrong>\u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.ama-assn.org\u002Famaone\u002Fama-digital-health-implementation-playbook\">Digital Health Implementation Playbook\u003C\u002Fa>\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003Cstrong>, a step-by-step guide on how to integrate digital tools into practice in general and telehealth services in particular\u003C\u002Fstrong>.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Michael Hodgkins, Chief Medical Information Officer at the AMA, told The Medical Futurist that the road to the Playbook started with a survey in 2016 among physicians looking for what level of enthusiasm and what concerns they had for digital health solutions. It turned out that although excitement was quite high, the adoption levels remained lower than expected and the concerns were cemented around four issues: the lack of scientific evidence, payment and reimbursement issues, privacy and security concerns and how to integrate tools into clinical practice.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>With the results of the survey in mind, \u003Cstrong>the AMA launched a network called \u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003Cstrong>\u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fxcertia.org\u002F\">XCERTIA\u003C\u002Fa>\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003Cstrong> to develop guidelines and standards for e-health and the \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Finnovationmatch.ama-assn.org\u002F\">Physician Innovation Network\u003C\u002Fa>\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003Cstrong>. The latter is a virtual place for physicians and entrepreneurs to engage in conversation about their innovations, to test prototypes and even pilot them. The Digital Health Implementation Playbook is the most recent tool of the AMA, a living document guiding physicians through the difficulties of the adoption of new technologies\u003C\u002Fstrong>. While the Playbook is the result of 80 interviews and working sessions with different healthcare professionals, consumers and others on how to best implement digital health solutions in practice, the AMA is still continuously looking for feedback to improve it. The association also asked The Medical Futurist Institute for its comments and recommendations – and we were honored to provide it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cfigure class=\"wp-block-image alignnone size-full wp-image-22840\">\u003Cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"870\" height=\"489\" src=\"https:\u002F\u002F1712507217.rsc.cdn77.org\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2019\u002F01\u002FDigital-Health-Implementation-Playbook.jpg\" alt=\"medical associations\" class=\"wp-image-22840\" srcset=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2019\u002F01\u002FDigital-Health-Implementation-Playbook.jpg 870w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2019\u002F01\u002FDigital-Health-Implementation-Playbook-370x208.jpg 370w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2019\u002F01\u002FDigital-Health-Implementation-Playbook-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2019\u002F01\u002FDigital-Health-Implementation-Playbook-512x288.jpg 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 870px) 100vw, 870px\" \u002F>\u003Cfigcaption>Source: www.ehrintelligence.com\u003C\u002Ffigcaption>\u003C\u002Ffigure>\n\n\n\n\u003Ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003Cstrong>The digital way\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003Cstrong> forward?\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Concerning the role of medical associations in the 21\u003Csup>st\u003C\u002Fsup> century, Hodgkins said that there’s an ongoing discussion within the organization how to best fulfill the mission, which is really to advance the science and art of care for the public benefit. \u003Cem>We’re developing more tools to interact as an association, and we also focus on the need to create new models of care and to help physicians transition to these new models of care\u003C\u002Fem>, he explained.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>\u003Cstrong>Going forward, there will be more and more effort on the part of the AMA in pursuing how to get the most effective solutions in the hands of physicians and patients – with the expectation that we can improve patient care and patient satisfaction as well as ameliorate the problem of physician burnout\u003C\u002Fstrong>. \u003Cem>We’re not gonna be able to do that without finding ways to successfully use these digital tools\u003C\u002Fem>, he concluded. The Medical Futurist agrees: \u003Cstrong>medical associations all around the world should recognize the immense potential in digital instruments to solve the imminent human resources crisis in healthcare and to offer patients the highest level of care in more efficient ways\u003C\u002Fstrong> while doing everything in their power to guide physicians towards digital health.\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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Thank you.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003C\u002Ftr>\n\u003C\u002Ftbody>\n\u003C\u002Ftable>\n\u003Cp> \u003C\u002Fp>\n",false,{"rendered":22,"protected":20},"\u003Cp>The Digital Health Implementation Playbook, released by the AMA recently, marks an essential step in the expansion of the functions of medical associations as promoters of digital health and as guides for application of disruptive solutions in the 21st century. 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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>Verne imagined sensitive mirrors connected by wire as devices for telecommunication, a German technologist, Hugo Gernsback went for the “teledactyle” allowing doctors to not only see their patients through a view screen but also to touch them from miles away with spindly robot arms. These concepts help us understand the development curve of telemedicine and what we could expect in the future.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003C!--more-->\n\n\n\n\u003Ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003Cstrong>Verne imagined landing on the Moon\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Past visionaries have always been very imaginative when it came to pushing the outermost boundaries of humankind even further off the usual. One of the most genius thinkers was French writer and father of science fiction, Jules Verne. He mentioned one hundred and eight sci-fi concepts and inventions in his vast oeuvre – \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fmult-kor.hu\u002Fa-20-szazad-szamos-talalmanyat-elore-megjosolta-jules-verne-20180208\">seventy was already realized\u003C\u002Fa>: the spaceship, the television, the machine gun, air conditioning or the atomic bomb.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>He fantasized about a colossal submarine powered by electricity crisscrossing the oceans, the Nautilus, decades before the modern submarine was built. \u003Cstrong>He drew up the concept of space travel in his tale \u003Cem>From The Earth To The Moon\u003C\u002Fem>. Not only that but he also gave calculations and described the entire process: a capsule called “projectile” is fired off into space. \u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003Cstrong>\u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fbureautijdenruimte.nl\u002Fschoolofforesight\u002Fnl\u002F2012\u002F11\u002F21\u002Fvisionaries-of-the-future-jules-verne-2\u002F\">He guessed it would be the Americans who’d do it and foretold the place of launch right within 50 miles\u003C\u002Fa>\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003Cstrong>: a facility in South Florida\u003C\u002Fstrong>. Also, he imagined the capsule to splash down in the ocean and to be recovered from the sea.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Regarding communication technology, Verne predicted that news would be read out to people instead of written down in newspapers, and in his article \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.goodreads.com\u002Fbook\u002Fshow\u002F78735.In_the_Year_2889\">\u003Cem>In the Year 2889\u003C\u002Fem>\u003C\u002Fa>, he described the “phonotelephote”—a \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fnews.nationalgeographic.com\u002Fnews\u002F2011\u002F02\u002Fpictures\u002F110208-jules-verne-google-doodle-183rd-birthday-anniversary\u002F\">forerunner to today’s video conferencing technologies\u003C\u002Fa>. The device allowed “the transmission of images using sensitive mirrors connected by wires,” Verne wrote. He was the first to daydream about conference calls – and thus the technology enabling telemedicine.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cdiv class=\"wp-block-image wp-image-22459\">\u003Cfigure class=\"aligncenter\">\u003Cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"283\" src=\"https:\u002F\u002F1712507217.rsc.cdn77.org\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2018\u002F11\u002FDiagram-of-the-interior-of-Vernes-projectile.jpg\" alt=\"telemedicine\" class=\"wp-image-22459\" srcset=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2018\u002F11\u002FDiagram-of-the-interior-of-Vernes-projectile.jpg 600w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2018\u002F11\u002FDiagram-of-the-interior-of-Vernes-projectile-512x241.jpg 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \u002F>\u003Cfigcaption>Diagram of the interior of Verne’s “projectile”. Source: https:\u002F\u002Fscifi.stackexchange.com\u002F\u003C\u002Ffigcaption>\u003C\u002Ffigure>\u003C\u002Fdiv>\n\n\n\n\u003Ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003Cstrong>The teledactyle is ready for patients\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>The one who translated the idea of the “phonotelephote” into medicine was called Hugo Gernsback. At the dawn of the radio age, \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.smithsonianmag.com\u002Fhistory\u002Ftelemedicine-predicted-in-1925-124140942\u002F\">in 1925, the never-resting German technologist invented the concept of the “teledactyle”\u003C\u002Fa> that \u003Cstrong>would allow doctors not only to see their patients through a view screen but also touch them from miles away with spindly robot arms. As Gernsback explained it, the device would have made it possible to “feel at a distance”. He basically described the function and aim of telemedicine – going a “tiny bit” further than technology would allow it today\u003C\u002Fstrong>.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>He wrote that “\u003Cem>The doctor of the future, by means of this instrument, will be able to feel his patient, as it were, at a distance. The doctor manipulates his controls, which are then manipulated at the patient’s room in exactly the same manner. The doctor sees what is going on in the patient’s room by means of a television screen. Every move that the doctor makes with the controls is duplicated by radio at a distance. Whenever the patient’s teledactyle meets with resistance, the doctor’s distant controls meet with the same resistance. The distant controls are sensitive to sound and heat, all important to the future diagnosis\u003C\u002Fem>.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Thus, the “teledactyle” was actually much more than telemedicine today – sensing the patient not only through vision and hearing, but also touch. Humanity is unfortunately not as advanced as several decades ago futurists thought it would be, but who knows, maybe we’ll get there at some point. Just look at the concept of the \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcutecircuit.com\u002Fthe-hug-shirt\u002F\">Hug Shirt\u003C\u002Fa>! It allows people to send hugs over distance – just like a text message. It can feel the strength, duration, and location of the touch, skin warmth, and the heart rate of the sender. The actuators then recreate the same touch sensation on the shirt worn by the distant loved.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cfigure class=\"wp-block-image alignnone size-full wp-image-22460\">\u003Cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"740\" height=\"417\" src=\"https:\u002F\u002F1712507217.rsc.cdn77.org\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2018\u002F11\u002FTeledactyle.jpg\" alt=\"telemedicine\" class=\"wp-image-22460\" srcset=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2018\u002F11\u002FTeledactyle.jpg 740w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2018\u002F11\u002FTeledactyle-370x208.jpg 370w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2018\u002F11\u002FTeledactyle-512x289.jpg 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 740px) 100vw, 740px\" \u002F>\u003Cfigcaption>Source: www.labr-mg.org.br\u003C\u002Ffigcaption>\u003C\u002Ffigure>\n\n\n\n\u003Ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003Cstrong>NASA and the Erl-King\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>It is evident that the demand for effective home-based care has been around for centuries. The tragic ballad by the German poet, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.poemhunter.com\u002Fpoem\u002Fthe-erl-king\u002F\">The Erl-King\u003C\u002Fa>, would not have been written if telemedicine had been around. According to the story, a dad gallops through dark forests in the night to bring his son to the doctor. The little boy is hallucinating due to fever, most likely, and imagines the Erl-King calling him. It’s a hauntingly beautiful poem – but wouldn’t it be much better if the boy could have stayed at home and received medication without the need to go anywhere?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Alternative ways were sought to solve these burning issues from the dawn of technological advancement – and that’s where telemedicine jumps in. \u003Cstrong>Already an \u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003Cstrong>\u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\u002Fbooks\u002FNBK207141\u002F\">1879 article in the \u003Cem>Lancet\u003C\u002Fem> talked about using the telephone\u003C\u002Fa>\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003Cstrong> to reduce unnecessary office visits. Every invention was tried at how it fits the medical arena. For example, since the 1920s, the radio has been used to give medical advice to clinics on ships. Later on, in the 1950s, \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fblog.evisit.com\u002Fhistory-telemedicine-infographic\">medical personnel started doing experiments with closed-circuit television\u003C\u002Fa>\u003C\u002Fstrong>. Probably one of the earliest and most famous uses of hospital-based telemedicine was in the late 1950s and early 1960s when a closed-circuit television link was established between the Nebraska Psychiatric Institute and Norfolk State Hospital for psychiatric consultations.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Nevertheless, many technologies had to be perfected to make telemedicine possible on a wide scale. Thus, it is absolutely not surprising that space research was the area where the method developed fully. In the 1970s, NASA first began performing physiologic monitoring over distance. Then further developed this technology with a pilot with the Papago Indians, \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\u002Fpubmed\u002F17697507\">the Space Technology Applied to Rural Papago Advanced Health Care (STARPAHC) project\u003C\u002Fa> – and truly demonstrated the feasibility of a consortium of public and private partners working together to provide medical care to remote populations via telecommunication.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cfigure class=\"wp-block-image alignnone wp-image-22461\">\u003Cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"714\" height=\"493\" src=\"https:\u002F\u002F1712507217.rsc.cdn77.org\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2018\u002F11\u002FErlkoenig_Schwind.jpg\" alt=\"telemedicine\" class=\"wp-image-22461\" srcset=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2018\u002F11\u002FErlkoenig_Schwind.jpg 714w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2018\u002F11\u002FErlkoenig_Schwind-512x354.jpg 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 714px) 100vw, 714px\" \u002F>\u003Cfigcaption>Moritz von Schwind: Erlkönig. Illustration.\u003C\u002Ffigcaption>\u003C\u002Ffigure>\n\n\n\n\u003Ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003Cstrong>Defibrillation on the phone, eVisits and the point of care\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>June 25, 1989, \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.jstor.org\u002Fstable\u002F3426935?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents\">marked a real breakthrough in telemedicine\u003C\u002Fa>. That was \u003Cstrong>the first time a patient was successfully defibrillated by telephone – and that was just a beginning of the myriads of ways how phones could play a role in telemedicine.\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003Cstrong> The advancement of telecommunication technologies brought new forms of patient-doctor remote communication all the time\u003C\u002Fstrong>. With the appearance of the World Wide Web, sending electronic messages became the new norm of exchanging information. Afterward, video chat programs such as Skype appeared. The practice of telemedicine spread around, and soon humanity woke up to the fact that eVisits are possible on our smartphones.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>You don’t need to go to a hospital or any other healthcare facility, you can be anywhere on the planet. That’s the main difference in how earlier visions pictured telemedicine and how it finally evolved. The “teledactyle” imagines the patient in a medical setting, so they imagined the point-of-care remaining mainly the hospital room – or perhaps the home of the bedridden patient. Thus, there is no mobility here: everyone from the patient until the doctor – even the nurse in the background – stays in their lane. Moreover, Gernsback’s vision shows no change in the medical methods: the patient is examined with touch, sound, and a “remote stethoscope”.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cfigure class=\"wp-block-image alignnone wp-image-22462\">\u003Cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"670\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\u002F\u002F1712507217.rsc.cdn77.org\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2018\u002F11\u002FDoctor-With-Smartphone.jpg\" alt=\"telemedicine\" class=\"wp-image-22462\" srcset=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2018\u002F11\u002FDoctor-With-Smartphone.jpg 670w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2018\u002F11\u002FDoctor-With-Smartphone-512x275.jpg 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 670px) 100vw, 670px\" \u002F>\u003Cfigcaption>www.foley.com\u003C\u002Ffigcaption>\u003C\u002Ffigure>\n\n\n\n\u003Ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003Cstrong>Telemedicine will disappear, personal visits will gain higher value\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>In the end, \u003Cstrong>telemedicine materialized quite differently as the “teledactyle” predicted it, and we should recognize how much human behavior changed and how the meaning of “medical care settings” transformed\u003C\u002Fstrong>. We are not bound by hospital rooms – either physically, or mentally. Telemedicine is mostly about receiving medical care through phone, video or chat anywhere in the whole wide world. Moreover, with the prevalence of trackers, wearables and health sensors, the measurement of data, as well as the retrieval of archived data with the help of the EMRs, is possible – thus the traditional examination methods are on their way out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>At the same time, telemedicine is soaring, and the phenomenon will most likely not slow down in the future. It is projected that it will \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fblog.evisit.com\u002Fhistory-telemedicine-infographic\">evolve into a $34 billion industry by 2020\u003C\u002Fa> and further integrates into healthcare becoming a crucial part of everyday medicine. In the future, the telemedical process is most likely to be a lot more efficient. Thus, the patient will be the point of care turning to the physician via any kind of platform sharing text, sound or video. A lot of background information will already be available to the doctor even in the case of new patients as the medical professional could retrieve archived health data and patients can share their own health information received through portable health technologies.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>As telemedicine means a viable medical option and \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fmedicalfuturist.com\u002Fcould-a-i-solve-the-human-resources-crisis-in-healthcare\">the human resources crisis in healthcare\u003C\u002Fa> doesn’t seem to abate before long, the method will become more widespread than ever. After a while, the “telemedicine” expression will likely to disappear, even. \u003Cstrong>As the majority of cases will go down due to telemedical methods, people will consider telemedical visits the norm, and the personal visit a highly valued, rare asset due to the shortage of medical professionals\u003C\u002Fstrong>.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Ch3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Learn more about the technological future of medical specialties from \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fleanpub.com\u002Ffuture-of-medical-specialties\">our latest e-book\u003C\u002Fa>!\u003C\u002Fh3>\n\n\n\n\u003Cfigure class=\"wp-block-image\">\u003Ca class=\"img\" href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fleanpub.com\u002Ffuture-of-medical-specialties\">\u003Cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" src=\"https:\u002F\u002F1712507217.rsc.cdn77.org\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2019\u002F05\u002F0415_tmfs_mockup.png\" alt=\"future of medical specialties\" class=\"wp-image-23819\"\u002F\u003C\u002Fa srcset=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2019\u002F05\u002F0415_tmfs_mockup.png 1920w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2019\u002F05\u002F0415_tmfs_mockup-370x208.png 370w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2019\u002F05\u002F0415_tmfs_mockup-768x432.png 768w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2019\u002F05\u002F0415_tmfs_mockup-1536x864.png 1536w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2019\u002F05\u002F0415_tmfs_mockup-2048x1152.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \u002F>\u003C\u002Fa>\u003C\u002Ffigure>\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",{"rendered":212,"protected":20},"\u003Cp>Verne imagined sensitive mirrors connected by wire as devices for telecommunication, a German technologist, Hugo Gernsback went for the “teledactyle” allowing doctors to not only see their patients through a view screen but also to touch them from miles away with spindly robot arms. 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