Key Technologies Driving Pharma’s Future Landscape
After giving hundreds of keynotes to the top 30 pharmaceutical companies all around the world, I thought I would write my conclusions and predictions about the future of the industry. This is "Technologies Shaping the Future of Pharma". It serves as a collection of relevant examples, best practices and exciting ideas that can help any pharmaceutical company prepare for change. Check it out on Leanpub: https://t.co/cUmuKDgzCH
Physician Awareness Crucial for AI Scribe Adoption
Four Scenarios of AI Scribe Adoption in Healthcare https://t.co/evxOH6WL5Z In my newest analysis, I turned to an established futures method, scenario analysis, to gain some insights about how we might want to think about the near future of AI scribes in...
Awake Brain Stimulation Replicates Deep Sleep Benefits
In the future, could we get some benefits of sleep WITHOUT sleeping? Animal studies suggest so. Because it seems that stimulating specific brain activity in awake mice leads to some of the same effects as deep sleep, including a boost in...
Chinese Doctors Embrace AI Prescribing, Keep Final Say
In a study, authors asked 2708 physicians throughout China to interrogate their opinions on drug-prescribing AI. There seems to be a wide acceptance of conditional autonomous drug-prescribing AI. But only in a way that the physician remains the gatekeeper in the...
Healthcare AI Will Augment, Not Replace, Clinicians
If you had to make 10 near-term predictions about the future of healthcare AI, what would those be? Here is my attempt to separate the signal from the noise. Briefly, here are mine: 1) The future of large language models (LLMs) is multimodal 2)...
FDA Grants Breakthrough Status to Preterm Skin‑to‑Skin Wearable
A few months ago, the CEO of the company, Alon Metrikin-Gold, just shared that the FDA has granted "Skincubator" a so-called Breakthrough Device Designation (BDD)! They have developed a wearable device designed to enable immediate, prolonged, skin-to-skin care for the tiniest...
Patch‑size Stethoscope Enables Continuous Cardio‑Respiratory Monitoring
A wearable stethoscope? Stethoscopes have gone through an exciting evolution: first a wooden tube, then the stethoscope everyone knows today, and now the digital devices with built-in ECG and AI analysis. But how about wearing them as a patch for...
Context Engineering Gains Spotlight in BMJ Digital Health
I've been talking about the importance of context engineering for a year (even in my new digital course). Besides prompt engineering, the ability to work efficiently with large language models, context engineering goes one step further. It selects and structures...
Bronze Fetal Sculptures Turn Hospital Entrance Into Miracle
"Imagine this being the entrance to the hospital where you first saw your baby’s heartbeat… and nine months later, where you became a mom." It's a series of 14 bronze sculptures by the artist Damien Hirst situated outside the Sidra Medical...
Regulators Should Oversee AI Prescribing Companies, Not Products
When will regulators allow AI to prescribe medications? This is a key question in today's AI era and it's going to happen due to worldwide doctor shortages and a growing number of patient needs, not because anyone would choose an...
Tech Giants Need Hospitals; Mayo‑Microsoft AI Proves It
I'm trying to avoid saying I said so, but many years ago, when the first tech giants showed interest in healthcare, I described how they couldn't succeed without the help of healthcare institutions, and at the same time, how those...
Blood DNA Test Can Spare Millions From Unnecessary Chemotherapy
The dream I pursued during my PhD in genomics was to use blood tests to determine whether patients would respond to extensive and expensive therapies before even starting them. We demonstrated this in autoimmune conditions and biological therapies. Now the same...
Future of Wearables: AI, Continuous Monitoring, Miniaturization
The Evolution of Digital Health Devices https://t.co/4WYg9DEZVI This short, executive-style e-book explores the transformation of fitness trackers, ECGs, blood pressure monitors, stethoscopes, sleep trackers and smart rings. Through clear timelines and practical insights, it reveals the trends shaping the next decade...
Multimodal LLMs: One Conversational Interface for Doctors
Multimodal large language models will become the ultimate interface between physicians and a range of AI-based solutions. Why? 1) We cannot expect physicians to learn to use a bunch of different AI models. 2) We can expect them to learn to use...
Digital Blood Testing: Emerging Tech Redefines Biomarker Detection
What Is Digital Blood Testing? Digital blood testing is a relatively new concept that involves alternative, technologically-enhanced ways to test for biomarkers that typically rely on blood sampling. There are already practical examples of digital blood testing, and new research indicates a...