23 Trends Shaping the Near Future of Medicine
23 trends that depict the near future of medicine and healthcare. Over 50,000 copies sold in 5 languages. A lot of figures, interviews and scenarios. This is "The Guide to the Future of Medicine". Check it out: https://t.co/1iBcCX2kfI https://t.co/gyfRu23Kt9
Decode AI Health Jargon with Our Survival Guide
Navigating AI in medicine and digital health can feel like ordering a coffee at that new hipster café downtown. Here is our survival guide in the bewildering world of digital health terminology. We’re decoding the lingo, from radiomics and theranostics to...
Gary‑Rule: When Tech Issues Stay IT vs Become Digital Health
The Gary-rule helps decide whether it is a health IT or a digital health issue. If a technological issue comes up in a healthcare setting, such as the antivirus software becomes outdated or the electronic medical record system stopped working...
Explore Autonomous Ambulance Futures with a Proven Method
I did a futures wheel exercise with the Hungarian National Ambulance Service about an exciting possible milestone in the future: the ambulance fleet of a national service becoming fully autonomous by 2035. This exercise helps determine the primary and secondary consequences...
Humanoid Robot Tested in Hospital May Alleviate Staff Shortages
This is Unitree G1, a Chinese humanoid robot being tested at a hospital setting, opening drawers, restocking supplies, and moving the bed. I still have doubts about widespread use due to the Moravec paradox, but maybe healthcare professional shortages can become so...
AI Overviews Dominate Half of Health Searches, Slashing Site Traffic
A lot of medical and health-related websites have been experiencing lower visitor rates since Google introduced AI Overviews that appear at the top of search results. Simply, these try to answer the questions users have while doing searches for certain issues. Now,...
Gyms Transform Into Future Longevity Centers
Gyms are evolving to integrate services that are looking beyond near-future fitness and into longer-term benefits. The concept of longevity has gained traction in recent years, and gyms are tapping into this trend. In this article, by analysing real-life trends and examples,...
AI ROI Arrives as Billions Adopt Health Wearables
The view from my hotel room in Chamonix is quite spectacular. I spoke yesterday at a global event organized by a major pharma company. They organized it near Mt. Blanc to make the country managers literally aim higher and higher. I...
Affordable €2000 Robot Offers Elderly Care and Home Automation
This robot was designed for elderly care. It can have conversations with the user, measure blood pressure and heart rate, operate the smart elements of the house from heat to lights and do simpler tasks. It's quite the accomplishment (or claims) for...
Digital Tech Redefines Pharma Manufacturing and Distribution
This book explains how disruptive technologies and emerging trends such as robotics, artificial intelligence, 3D printing, precision medicine or patient design will impact the manufacturing and distribution of pharmaceuticals in order to prepare successfully for a better future of healthcare. Everything...
Comprehensive AI FDA‑Approved Device Database Precedes Official Release
One of the most cited scientific figures in my career. All the FDA-approved medical technologies by medical specialty in 2020, before the FDA launched its own dedicated database. The state of artificial intelligence-based FDA-approved medical devices and algorithms: an online database...
AI Reliance Undermines Clinician Skill and Accuracy
One of the biggest fears about healthcare's AI revolution is that AI can erode physicians’ expertise and their performance may drop when AI is removed. A new scoping review provides examples for that. In colonoscopy, the adenoma detection rate dropped significantly...
Robots Handle Routine Tasks, Not Replace Surgeons
Developing humanoid robots to help with mundane tasks such as sterilizing surgical devices all day is one thing. But saying these robots could "help in the operating room" sends the wrong message that they might replace surgeons, which couldn't be...
China Accelerates Health AI, Facing Hurdles and Global Lessons
China’s National Health Commission and four other authorities have issued a call for the broader application of AI in the country’s health sector. Chinese provinces and tech companies alike are already heeding to the call for health AI integration, with multiple...
Smartwatch Blood Pressure Accuracy Compared to Traditional Monitors
Will smartwatches measuring blood pressure hold up against other types of blood pressure monitors? I discuss it in this short video. https://t.co/vb09Bdo346
Will Users Trust Fitbit With Sensitive Medical Data?
How many people will trust Fitbit enough to upload their medical records to it? Google just unveiled that if they do so, its AI health coach would review the records to generate responses and recommendations. It might be a pivotal point in...
Invest Now: Top 24 Digital Health Tech Trends
AI and Digital Health are booming. In this book, we explain why now it's a good time to invest in Digital Health and give recommendations on where to invest by looking at the top 24 technological trends we find the...
Apply Proven Futures Methods to Shape
Analyzing the future of medicine and healthcare, especially during the rise of digital health and artificial intelligence, should rely on established futures methods that the discipline of futures studies has been using for decades. By employing such methods, healthcare professionals,...
Daily Puzzles and Chess Sharpen the Mind
How do you keep your mind sharp? Of course, besides the usual activities such as exercises, crosswords, or good brain food. I play puzzles and chess every day, and once in a while, my wife surprises me with a puzzle box. I didn't...
AI's Role in Healthcare Explained in 100 Q&A
Introducing "100 Questions and Answers About Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare" - your essential guide to understanding the integration of AI and medicine. - Explore 100 essential questions, each offering concise yet insightful answers supported by research and real-world examples. - From the...
Four‑Tier Framework Cuts Through AI Healthcare Hype
It’s incredibly hard to see through the current AI hype in healthcare. To facilitate that, I have mapped the rapidly expanding universe of AI use cases in healthcare from early-stage “on the horizon” innovations to “safe bets” that are already backed...
Dental Robots Face Trust Hurdle, Acceptance Possible
It seems inevitable that medical robots will be used across the healthcare spectrum: from taking blood samples and moving medications around in a hospital to surgeries and pharmacy automations. But can dentistry be the next? A medical specialty in which...
Robotic Surgery Expands Into AI-Enhanced Precision
Robots’ potentials have been a fascination for humans and have even led to a booming field of robot-assisted surgery. Surgical robots assist surgeons in performing accurate, minimally invasive procedures that are beneficial for patients’ recovery. The assistance of robots extend beyond incisions...
AI Pre-Visit Chat Delivers Concise Summaries for Doctors
A very important prospective (!) study from Google and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center about using AI before a new ambulatory primary care visit. The patient talks with a conversational AI that will summarize every important detail for the physician by...
AI Robotics Make Patients the New Point of Care
From skin checking applications and AI to remote care devices and robotics, the field is going through a paradigm shift making patients more and more the point of care. Smart algorithms will soon diagnose skin cancer, dermatologists consult patients online, and...
Global Map Reveals Rapid Growth of Medical Drone Projects
The Global Map of Medical Drone Projects And Trials We analyzed the state of medical drones worldwide. To achieve that, we had to dive into the global literature and announcements to find all of these exciting projects that involved the use...
Digital Health Device Evolution: Past Decade, Next Ten Years
A 25-page executive overview of how six major categories of digital health devices evolved, and what their trajectories tell us about the future. If you want to understand the past decade of wearable evolution and the next decade of healthcare innovation,...
Weekly AI and Health Tech Trends for Clinicians
Every week, I track the signals that show where medicine is really going from the latest AI breakthroughs and digital health tools to the cultural shifts redefining patient care. The Medical Futurist Newsletter brings you: ✅ Curated insights on the most impactful...
From Human Review to Full Automation: AI’s Oncology Journey
Today, I gave a virtual talk to a leading pharma company's team about the future of oncology. As they asked me to focus on AI's role in that, I'll describe real-life and some hypothetical examples of how the 5 levels...
Smartphone Ultrasound May Aid Spine Diagnosis, If Cost‑Effective
Smartphone-connected ultrasound devices could bring an interesting new layer to spinal diagnostics. A system like SpineUs combines a handheld ultrasound scanner with tracking software and AI-based reconstruction to create 3D visualizations of the spine’s surface in near real time. According to Verdure...
Lancet Study Validates Digital Stethoscopes for Primary Care
In early 2026, The Lancet published the TRICORDER study, a pragmatic, real-world evaluation involving 205 primary care practices and about 1.5 million patients, proving that digital stethoscopes have a place in care. For clinicians seeking practice-ready digital transformation, this device could...
Choose the Right Futures Wheel or Scenario Method
Do a futures wheel or scenario analysis exercise with your team the next time you are thinking about the future. In this paper, we describe how to do that and which method to choose. It's available in JMIR: https://t.co/BUP5MVqnks https://t.co/0UofN0ZGIM
Muse Athena Promises Brain‑Synced Sleep and Mental Fitness
When, almost a decade ago, I first used the Muse headband to meditate, I liked the idea, and I had no doubt that the device could deliver what the company said it could, but I had a mixed experience meditating...
Digital Tourniquets Could Soon Become First‑aid Essentials
Maybe it's not new, but that's the first time I saw a digital tourniquet. It is designed to help anyone quickly stop the bleeding. No training required. Just tighten, press, and save a life. This is the line companies like XMetix...
Small Language Models Offer Efficient, Transparent Healthcare AI
Small language models (SLMs) are gaining attention in the generative AI field. SLMs are trained on relatively small amounts of data and have a relatively small number of parameters. SLM can be more practical than large language models as they are...
Pebble Smartwatch Sleep Tracking Revealed Health Tech’s Future
What was the first health sensor you ever used that proved to you how health management would change with such technologies? My core experience was when the Pebble smartwatch (that came out after a successful crowdfunding campaign) measured my sleep and...
Mixed Reality Revolutionizes Anatomy Learning, Yet Remains Costly
I remember what it was like to study the heart from textbooks and medical atlases. This video demonstrates how different the experience could be with mixed reality. It could lead to a new level of understanding of anatomy and pathology. The...
Top Medical Specialties Poised to Thrive with AI
While every medical specialty will benefit from digital health and AI, some will especially thrive thanks to these innovations. Here, I listed the top medical specialties with the biggest potential for development in the future. Read on: https://t.co/KhId1Okqf2 https://t.co/rgvsDAjS1q
Ten Near‑Term AI Predictions Shaping Healthcare
I've written so much about various details of healthcare's AI revolution that it was time to come up with a high-level overview of what we can certainly expect from AI in the next few years. 10 predictions, coming from four...
Smart Pills: Diagnostics Now, Autonomous Therapy Still Years Away
IEEE has a very technical overview of ingestible electronics and tomorrow's smart pills that could one day deliver drugs and take biopsies. To "take actions based on its findings" is a bit too far-fetched for now. What can these technologies definitely...
2026’s Top 100 Digital Health & AI Innovators Unveiled
I’m proud to introduce 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐌𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐅𝐮𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐭’𝐬 𝟏𝟎𝟎 𝐃𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐀𝐈 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔! The digital health and AI fields are saturated with hype, and distinguishing the promising players from the noise is a challenge. The annual list is our...
Big Tech Accelerates Into Healthcare With Partnerships
Big tech companies like Amazon, Google/Alphabet, Apple, NVIDIA and Microsoft are taking their move into healthcare and medicine seriously. They are developing new, health-related features on their platforms. They are also teaming up with research institutions and developers to create new...
Switching to Syai CGM for Easier Glucose Monitoring
I just started testing a new continuous glucose monitor (CGM) device from Syai. I tried Abbott Freestyle Libre 2 and Sibionics before, but the need for the reader with Libre was a pain in the process, and the Sibionics app is...
China’s Health AI App Hits 100 Million Users Worldwide
The world’s largest health-focused AI app is from China now, with over 100 million (!) users. Ant Group just released this number and more details of what their plans are with the app. "Among its new users, 52% came from third-tier cities...
Bandages Evolve: From Passive Cover to Active Healing
Bandages have been a central component of wound healing for centuries. In the digital health era, the wound healing process will transform the role of bandages from a passive to an active one. We dive into the current and future innovations of...
Emerging Tech Will Revolutionize Pharma Manufacturing and Distribution
This book explains how disruptive technologies and emerging trends such as robotics, artificial intelligence, 3D printing, precision medicine or patient design will impact the manufacturing and distribution of pharmaceuticals in order to prepare successfully for a better future of healthcare. It's...
AI Dr. CaBot Outperforms Physicians in Diagnosis, Generates Expert Presentations
In a new study, authors created a physician-validated benchmark spanning 10 text-based and multimodal tasks, against which they evaluated leading large language models (LLMs). "Then, we developed “Dr. CaBot,” an AI discussant designed to produce written and slide-based video presentations...
Apple Watch Detects Hypertension with 69% Accuracy
A lot of people don't even know they have high blood pressure, while over 200 million people wear an Apple Watch. The bridge between the two is whether an Apple Watch can properly detect hypertension. A new JAMA study aimed...
Future Docs Must Master Digital Health and AI
I'll give a presentation today to medical students at Semmelweis Medical School about the rise of digital health and AI, as part of the 𝐷𝑖𝑠𝑟𝑢𝑝𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑇𝑒𝑐ℎ𝑛𝑜𝑙𝑜𝑔𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝑀𝑒𝑑𝑖𝑐𝑖𝑛𝑒 course that I co-launched. 𝐈𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐦𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐰𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞...
Koushicare Device Offers Relief for Dry Eye
Can you guess what this device is for? It is made by Koushicare, and it helps people with dry eye. https://t.co/FilgMQ1JEy
