Virtually Better: The Promise of Medical Extended Reality & Transformative Technologies

Welcome to this week's edition of the?Future of Health & Medicine Newsletter from NextMed Health with insights on what's 'Now, Near &?Next' in?health(care)?and biomedicine.

Explore below:

• Our selection of top news impacting health & medicine??
• Virtual Medicine: The Emergence of?Medical Extended Reality
• Transformative Technologies to Enhance Health & Happiness

The Science & Practice of Medical Extended Reality

Virtual Reality (VR) is not just for gamers?anymore; its a new type of mind-body medicine. "Medical Extended Reality" (MXR) has emerged as a dynamic field at the intersection of health care and immersive technology, encompassing virtual, augmented, and mixed reality applications across a wide range of medical disciplines, from therapy to medical education.?A leading pioneer of this field. Dr. Brennan Spiegel , director of Health Services Research for Cedars-Sinai covered the 'Now, Near?and Next' of MXR at NextMed Health 2023, ?from VR as a tool to modify perception, bringing on awe as a 'psyberdelic', to?treating pain and anxiety,?accelerating neuroplasticity and the ways we experience our bodies as a radical new approach?recalibrate unhealthy perceptions and to improve quality of life. You can?explore a selection of VR related healthcare solutions here .? ?

Transformative Technology for Health & Happiness

Transformative Technology refers to innovations that enhance mental health, emotional well-being, and human thriving. In her fascinating talk at NextMed Health 2023, Nichol Bradford , Co-founder of the Transformative Technology Innovation Lab, explored how these technologies can unlock human potential for everyone. She emphasized the role of 'TransTech' in promoting mental and emotional health, fostering social and emotional wellness, and maximizing human potential and performance. By focusing on these areas, Transformative Technology aims to create healthier, happier, and more resilient individuals, strengthen families, companies, and communities, and empower people to become their best selves in pursuit of a shared vision for humanity. ?

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All the best,

Daniel Kraft, MD

Founder & Chair, NextMed Health

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Future of Health(care)?& Biomedicine News What's Next: Big Picture

The Biggest Healthcare Trends Of The Next 10 Years (Forbes)

US Top Ten Leading Causes of Death (JAMA)

Blood test uses ‘protein clock’ to predict risk of Alzheimer’s and other diseases (Nature)

The AI Scientist: Towards Fully Automated Open-Ended Scientific Discovery (ARXIV)

We Want You, Doctor, to Help Get Out the Vote (MedPage today)

AI in Medicine

Generative AI in healthcare: Adoption trends and what’s next (McKinsey)

Evaluating multimodal AI in medical diagnostics ?(Nature)

How One Major Healthcare Firm Became the Leader in Innovative AI Use (HBR)

Cardiac arrest AI that predicts outcome s (HealthcareITNews)

Bringing digital intelligence to healthcare (The Pediatric Moonshot) ?

Digital Health

Why digital health companies are optimistic ?(ModernHealthcare)

Epic rolls out patient-driven health data sharing (Beckers)

Can digital health help people prepare for extreme weather events? (HealthLeaders)? AI-Enabled Digital Health (Digital.Health )

Future of?Therapy

How will cell & gene therapy manufacturing look in 10 years? (ClinicalTrials Arena)

Fully-automatic robot dentist performs world's first human procedure ?(New Atlas)

Rescue From Above: How Drones May Narrow Emergency Response Times (KFF)

Future of Diagnostics

FDA approves blood test to screen for colon cancer ?(FACS)

Blood Biomarkers to Detect Alzheimer Disease (JAMA)

Proteomic aging clock predicts mortality and risk of common age-related diseases in diverse populations (Nature)

Proteomic signatures improve risk prediction for common and rare diseases (Nature) First Noninvasive Method to Continually Measure True Blood Pressure (Caltech)

Future of Pharma

New compound flips memory back on in Alzheimer's cases (New Atlas)

FDA Approved! A New Model for Biopharma (TechNation)

The world’s priciest drug may save lives. Can kids get it in time? (Washington Post)

AI Speeding Discovery of New Drugs (UMB News)

Public Health & Global Health

The top 10 causes of death (WHO)

The Indomitable Covid Virus (Eric Topol)

Incidence of heart attacks & strokes was lower after COVID-19 vaccination (Cambridge)

How experiencing famine in the womb may shape people’s health as adults (STAT)

Neuromedicine & Mental Health

FDA gives thumbs down to MDMA for now, demanding further research (NPR)

Social media, AI, and the battle for your brain (Proto.Life )

Neuralink implanted second trial patient with brain chip (Reuters)?

Classical Music Synchronizes Brain Waves, Improving Depression (NeuroscienceNews) ?