Six Tailored Keynote Narratives Shaping Healthcare's Future
This conference season, I work with six keynote narratives. I still customize each for every single event and audience, but the narratives (that I work on with a dedicated team for months) help tell a powerful story. Here they are: 01 How to Predict The Future of Healthcare (the big picture about healthcare's technological and cultural transformation) 02 Healthcare Needs a Trip to Mars (the focus is on the patient perspective) 03 Your AI Prescription (everything about healthcare AI) 04 How Will Generative AI Upgrade Healthcare (everything about generative AI) 05 Your Map to the Future (futures thinking in practical terms and examples) 06 The Evolution of Digital Health (an objective overview of digital health's key trends) More on this with examples and video: https://t.co/QZJKgOdVUj
Robotic Phlebotomy Achieves 94% Success, Low Complications
I've been following Vitestro for years. They have been developing robotic devices to collect patients' blood samples. They have big news now as the results of a multicenter ADOPT clinical trial have been published in Clinical Chemistry. That is the...
Preparing Trust for Hospital Telemedicine Robots Amid Physician Shortages
Imagine being a physician sitting in front of a laptop webcam while roaming around in a hospital as a telemedicine robot. What a cultural shock it would be! But now North Carolina hospitals are deploying the OhmniCare Telehealth Robot to facilitate...
AR‑Enhanced Ultrasound Projects Anatomy Directly Onto Patients
What is the point of using augmented reality and ultrasound imaging together? Instead of interpreting flat, abstract images on a screen, clinicians can see anatomy overlaid directly onto the patient’s body in real time. If they learn how to exploit this...
Disney's HoloTile Stalls, Leaving Therapeutic Potential Untapped
From time to time, I revisit some technologies that seemed to be exciting to see whether there is any news or updates about them. And sometimes it's heartbreaking to see nothing. Just like in the case of Disney's HoloTile floor...
Patient Scholars Must Coauthor Future Health Research
Publishing with patient scholars should be a requirement in a scientist's career. In this paper, The Evolution of Patient Empowerment and Its Impact on Health Care’s Future, we did exactly that. "𝐴𝑠 𝑤𝑒 𝑙𝑜𝑜𝑘 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑢𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒, 𝑤𝑒 𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑖𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑢𝑒𝑑...
China's AI Hospital Makes Patients the Care Hub
China just defined what an AI Hospital is! It is a new type of smart healthcare model in which AI is embedded into the system itself, linking offline medical expertise with the broader reach of online services to deliver more...
Future Healthcare: Unseen Jobs Emerging by 2040
From Organ Designers To Telesurgery VR Planners: Healthcare Jobs In 2040 https://t.co/rsVU8Ce7d1 Healthcare’s rapid transformation guarantees the emergence of entirely new, currently unimaginable roles within the next few decades. Looking ahead and envisioning these potential roles, particularly where distinct fields intersect, offers...
Simple Ideas Spark Surprising Breakthroughs in Healthcare
Every now and then, remarkable breakthroughs come with a dash of ‘why didn’t I think of that?’ ingenuity. From reimagined everyday objects to solutions inspired by the natural world, these innovations prove that effective healthcare doesn’t always need to be...
Foam Rolling: Simple Habit to Boost Recovery and Prevent Injuries
It doesn't matter that I have spent thousands of hours on a range of longevity efforts to try to expand my life and healthspan; people always ask to just pinpoint one habit that will definitely help them. One of those hot...
Startup Pitches Brainless Human Clones for Organ Harvesting
Big news about a startup called R3 Bio that plans to create brainless human clones for the sole purpose of harvesting organs when people need them. They are just pitching the idea to investors now, but it is pretty wild (if...
Tech Revolution Will Redefine Some Medical Specialties More Than Others
Every medical specialty will transform differently due to the technological revolution. In certain fields, such as nursing, psychiatry, obstetrics and gynecology, innovation will have much less impact than on dentistry, cardiology or pathology. In this e-book, we specify in detail how...
AI Turns Patients Into Self‑Diagnosing Symptom Spirals
The ChatGPT Symptom Spiral: when ChatGPT tries to convince you that something is wrong with your medical record or lab results. We have to get used to dealing with patients getting into such troubles, because patients have always tried to...
AI Won’t Replace Radiologists; Demand Is Rising
Do you remember how many high-profile investors predicted that radiology would become obsolete in a few years due to the rise of AI? Yet, today, more radiologists are needed than ever. Jensen Huang, NVIDIA CEO, explains why: https://t.co/d4lpdMGJhO
Expensive AR Headsets Offer No Clear Advantage over Smartphones
The story is wonderful: a UK hospital is using augmented reality during pre-surgical consultations to let patients view anatomically precise 3D models through a headset and see what might be happening inside their bodies. But is it really the way forward? There...
