How A Medical Drone Helped Save A Man With Cardiac Arrest – This And More News In Digital Health This Week
Bertalan Meskó, MD, PhD
Director of The Medical Futurist Institute (Keynote Speaker, Researcher, Author & Futurist)
Last summer we collected what's there's to know about medical drones in our article, Is There A Future For Drones In Healthcare? In it, we contemplated the possible uses of drones and the challenges ahead; and for a long time, it seemed the challenges outweigh the advances drones might bring into medicine. But finally, it seems drones do get their chance – read about it in the featured article below!
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A man in Sweden is alive today thanks to — in part — a drone. The 71-year-old experienced a cardiac arrest while shovelling snow in December and was resuscitated by a nearby doctor after a drone flew in a defibrillator. In Europe, about 275,000 patients suffer from cardiac arrest annually with approximately 70 percent of those arrests occurring in a private home without a defibrillator on site. The survival rate is around 10 percent.
Now you don't read many science-fiction-like stories every day, but this one perfectly shows the potentials digital health technologies have in healthcare.
All 2021 and 2022 LG smart TVs will be equipped with a health education and telehealth app from the senior-focused health platform Independa. The platform will allow users to set up and have telehealth appointments through their TV. Some people might be able to have their visit covered by insurance, but now, most patients will pay a flat fee ($75 for a dentist’s call and around $55 for a doctor).
I called this trend the 'Internet of Healthy Things' a few years ago. It covers all technologies that can be connected to each other in our homes – and LGs new concept fits in perfectly. This is the way forward, towards smart homes and, ultimately, to patients, who are becoming the point-of-care.
CES is back in Las Vegas this year, and with that comes a slew of new product launches. The consumer technology event now has its own digital health track with a number of new companies and established names presenting and introducing new products. MobiHealthNews collected the health-related ones.
Every year, we report from CES about the newest and most exciting digital health gadgets. This year we did not attend but have kept an eye on reports coming out of the event - and this was one of them.
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A smart stethoscope combined with an AI algorithm could enable earlier diagnosis of heart failure and improved patient outcomes, all at a reduced cost. The Eko DUO device, that records electrocardiograms (ECGs) as well as heart sounds, the researchers applied the novel AI algorithm that determines within 15 seconds whether the pumping action of their hearts is weakened, providing an immediate diagnosis of heart failure.
Early diagnosis is key in the treatment of such conditions, and having an immediate diagnosis can save a life. Great programming!
Researchers from the University of Birmingham and the University of Huddersfield, UK, have developed a new 3D bioprinting technique that can be used to treat chronic wounds. The biomaterial is the first of its kind to simulate all three of the major layers found in the skin – the hypodermis, the dermis, and the epidermis – making it a unique tri-layered skin equivalent.
It's one thing to solve how to 3D bioprint living tissues or to print something that looks like a skin or printing artificial skin with all three layers. If they can prove that their bioprinted skin can even help wound healing, we would just witness a breakthrough. Although early experiments are not the same as clinical trials, I do hope this innovation could reach the patients' bedside in a few years.
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2 年That’s amazing! Thanks for sharing!
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2 年Your post are always so useful and inspiring!