The 10 Most Controversial Digital Health Stories – This And More News In Digital Health This Week
Bertalan Meskó, MD, PhD
The Medical Futurist, Author of Your Map to the Future, Global Keynote Speaker, and Futurist Researcher
The concept of digital twins would allow medical professionals to try different treatment methods to see how they play out without actual, real-life consequences. We could have a digital twin of a hospital, a patient, or even medical devices and drugs, how to allocate the workforce, which treatment to run on a patient, and so on. We summarized the concept in this article.
We also collected seven digital health devices that all have a place in the bag of the 21st-century doctor, from pocket-sized ECGs to Star Trek-like tricorders.
?This device can provide continuous monitoring of electrolyte levels in saliva. Blood draws are currently routine practice for premature infants to monitor for signs of dehydration.
"The new pacifier uses microfluidic channels to draw saliva inside, and then sensors within the device measure sodium and potassium ion concentrations and transmit the data wirelessly to a caregiver through Bluetooth."
Out of the blue: Scientists have injected the first human patient with a new cancer-killing virus, known as Vaxinia, that has seen successful tests in animals.
"However, the success of these viruses has been very limited, to say the least. This time around, though, the scientists have engineered the cancer-killing virus to not only harm cancer cells, but also to make them more recognizable to the body’s immune system. Researchers hope that this will help make the body’s response stronger, allowing it to fight back better."
The industry is changing with the speed of light, and the largest tech companies put significant effort (and billions of dollars) to make sure they will have a share in the future of this lucrative sector.
We have been analysing their progress for a long time now. These past two years were not short of big failures (let’s just think of the IBM Watson fiasco) and success stories (like Google/Alphabet and A.I), so it was time for a major update.
Study shows that A.I. can identify self-reported race from medical images that contain no indications of race detectable by human experts.
We simply don't know how A.I. can do this using only X-rays, CT scans, and mammograms.
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The concept of having a “twin” was already employed by NASA: they had replicas of their spacecrafts down here on Earth while the actual ones were in space. This allowed engineers to locate better and solve any technical problems that emerged up in space.
So imagine this, but digitalised. We could have a digital twin of a hospital, a patient, or even medical devices and drugs, where we could allocate the workforce of the hospital, run a treatment on a patient, and so on.
Another FDA approval for an artificial intelligence-based algorithm this time from RapidAI, designed to automatically identify a suspected central pulmonary embolism.
It delivers real-time notifications to physicians so that patients can be triaged faster and care teams aligned more quickly, reducing overall time to treatment, according to the company.
We are now in the third decade of the 21st century, so it’s time to reimagine what we (should) find in the medical bag of today's doctors.
This article will show you seven exciting, patient-friendly digital health devices and diagnostic tools I think will be essential to every doctor’s medical kit in the future - but how near in the future?
Thank you so much for this.