Introducing ‘ The Digital Health Course ’ !

We are so happy and proud to finally share with you the biggest project The Medical Futurist has ever worked on: The Digital Health Course. We designed this course to provide a complete overview of digital health, guiding users through the technological aspects, and equipping them to be able to predict and forecast what’s coming next. From the basics and its definition to why it’s a cultural transformation that is happening now; how it is a paradigm shift of care; how you can spot trends in it and forecast the near future. The whole Medical Futurist team and I have put our hearts, brains and souls into the whole curriculum. Digital health is the paradigm change of healthcare As this is the fundamental component of the whole course, let’s review what digital health really means to the delivery of care. You have probably heard it more than once from me that the doctor-patient relationship is going through a paradigm shift not seen for centuries. But what does it actually mean? Why is that so important? Let’s take a look into the nature of such shifts. Thomas Kuhn, in his 1962 classic The Structure of Scientific Revolutions mentions that  “Perhaps science does not develop by the accumulation of individual discoveries and inventions, but that discovery commences with the awareness of anomaly, i.e., with the recognition that nature has somehow violated the paradigm-induced expectations that govern normal science”. We are ...
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