The WHO Addresses Global Doctor Shortages With An A.I. Healthcare Worker – This And More News In Digital Health This Week
Bertalan Meskó, MD, PhD
Director of The Medical Futurist Institute (Keynote Speaker, Researcher, Author & Futurist)
By 2030, the WHO projects that 15 million healthcare workers will be missing globally. Introducing Florence, the "world's most extensive freely accessible AI health worker" is one way of tackling this issue.?
Florence is knowledgeable in key health topics, including mental health, nutrition and tobacco cessation, and provides information on COVID-19 vaccines. I just had a chat with her.
The World Health Organization, with support from the Qatar Ministry of Health, has just unveiled the world's most comprehensive and freely accessible AI health worker! The initial version of Florence assisted in combating false information about the pandemic.
This new version provides a multilingual, innovative, and interactive platform for disseminating various health-related topics.
I got a Hepatitis A infection 3 months ago. Now that I’m almost entirely over it, I wanted to share how digital health devices helped me save my sanity over the past months.
Despite being a doctor, going down with an infection like that is a very lonely experience, with only health data casting some light on the seemingly endless road ahead.
For centuries, scientists have been trying to envision the future of hospitals. Following the recent shift towards digital health technologies, in part precipitated by COVID-19, it is natural for one to wonder how these developments will impact hospitals.
What can we expect from them in the future? Will there be hospitals at all in a decade’s time? We hope this comprehensive review will arm policymakers, healthcare professionals, and people on the business side of care to better see what is coming and what the hospital of the future will be like.
Are you familiar with sleep tourism? It appears to be on the rise, with sleep-focused stays and packages proliferating in hotels and resorts around the globe.
"The service includes a sleep-inducing meditation recording, a pillow menu with options that cater to guests who may prefer to sleep on their back or side, the option of a weighted blanket, a bedtime tea developed specifically for the service, and a scented pillow mist."
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Doctors in the US have successfully performed surgery on prenatal babies to fix detrimental spinal deformities using a therapeutic stem cell patch method.?
"Surgeons have already used keyhole surgery on babies in the womb to mend the gap. Now the US team have gone a step further, fitting a patch that contains stem cells, that can grow with the baby."
Digital health applications are becoming more prevalent in our healthcare experience. Partly because they provide quick and convenient solutions to problems caused by traditional medical system capacity shortages or because they improve the capabilities of doctors, medical personnel, or hospitals.
While these apps are available in a wide range of medical specialities, integrating them into state-run healthcare systems to reap population-wide benefits is difficult.
After the Human Genome Project was completed 20 years ago, the dream was to be able to sequence a person's genome for 1000 USD when the cost was millions. What is next?
"The company, which controls around 80 percent of the DNA sequencing market globally, believes its new technology will slash the cost to just $200 per human genome while providing a readout at twice the speed."
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President World Lifestyle Medicine Organisation. Chief Consultant Family & Lifestyle Physician, Author, Keynote Speaker, Executive Health & Performance, Transformational Leadership, Joyful Women’s Health.
2 年Awesome! I will like to know what AI has for Lifestyle Medicine at this point. All very exciting!!
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2 年Mislav Malenica
Digital Health & Medtech Innovation Scaler | Driving Breakthroughs in Healthcare Technology | Transforming Patient Care with Data-Driven Solutions | Passionate about Improving Lives | Global Thinker ??
2 年Healthcare worker shortage is indeed on the rise globally but can’t we reverse this situation? For instance By making this a highly paid and respected position and starting to educate the next generation now. Also by having more workers per population to reduce the work load. Most places globally healthcare workers get paid low wages and it’s not respected as much. Start now and maybe by 2035 we can see a difference. I agree automation is needed and all the great innovative tools can help but you will still need real people to interact with patients
psychologist at Sonakshi
2 年I want do phd will u please suggest me
psychologist at Sonakshi
2 年Hello