Healthcare Should Be Invisible

What if healthcare worked as an unseeable fairy mother with a swarm of digital helpers? In the background, many digital tools, smart algorithms, health trackers and wearables would work for your well-being discreetly, you could be sure that you are taken care of, but you would only sense that on rare occasions. How would you fancy the invisible healthcare system? The Medical Futurist believes that we should move in that direction. Healthcare should be what Zorg showed us in The Fifth Element Do you remember the scene from the brilliant Luc Besson movie, The Fifth Element, where Gary Oldman as one of the leading antagonists, the evil Mr. Zorg, explains to his adversary, Father Vito Cornelius, why he aims at creating chaos? As an illustration of his monologue, he tosses a glass of water from the table smashing it to pieces. A small door opens, and dozens of little robots buzz around to sweep up the glass shards, to clean the floor and provide another glass of water as if nothing happened. Although the overall message of the scene goes entirely against the notion of providing care and healing, the idea that all the little helpers exclusively appear when they are needed, that’s something to embrace. Imagine if healthcare worked similarly. You would only feel its presence when you had a problem. Otherwise, it would be completely invisible. In the background, smart algorithms would process the data coming from your health sensors and wearables constantly monitoring your vital si...
Source: The Medical Futurist - Category: Information Technology Authors: Tags: Future of Medicine Healthcare Design AI artificial intelligence chatbot digital health health chatbot health trackers healthcare system Innovation robotics sensors technology VR wearables Source Type: blogs