Launch of The Medical Futurist Institute: Digital Health Research For A Better Future

The Medical Futurist Institute, the very first research institute specializing in digital health, was launched on 17 October 2017. We, the team of The Medical Futurist are incredibly happy to be able to share what we have been working on with you. The aim of the Institute is to prepare every stakeholder of healthcare for gradually adopting digital health. For successfully doing so, it provides comprehensive, original scientific field research, policy papers, and recommendations on technological innovations and their broader social impact.
Research for facilitating the adoption of digital health technologies by the global healthcare scene
The Institute will serve the goal to facilitate the adoption of digital health by governments, companies and most importantly individual patients and physicians, said Dr. Bertalan Mesko, Director, and Founder of The Medical Futurist Institute. He added, that while The Medical Futurist team tries to help translate science fiction-sounding technological progress into how we can make it happen in practical healthcare today, it’s TMFI’s responsibility to back every theory and direction with data and perspectives that have gone through peer review. That’s the main task of the newly established institute.

TMFI has already started its work on innovative research. The first step was to lay down the foundations for their future endeavors by defining digital health and framing the paradigm shift happening in healthcare. In the paper, they ...

Source: The Medical Futurist - October 17, 2017 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Future of Medicine Healthcare Design digital health Innovation Personalized medicine research technology the medical futurist institute tmf tmfi Source Type: blogs