International Bioethics Retreat (Paris)
Discussion
Research EthicsChair: Matti Hayry, PhD, Aalto University, Helsinki, FINLAND
11:00 – 11:15 AM The Ethics of What, How, and Why: Lessons from Tuskegee, Manhattan, and Beyond Tuija Takala, PhD University of Helsinki, FINLAND
11:15 – 11:30 AM Pig Brains and Pig Lungs: Novel Research ModelsSteve Latham. JD, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
11:30 – 12:00 PM Group Discussion
12:00 – 1:30 PM Class Photo and Lunch in the Garden
In the ClinicChair: Leonard Fleck, PhD, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA
1:30 – 1:45 PM Code Status Ont...
Source: blog.bioethics.net - May 31, 2019 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Thaddeus Mason Pope, JD, PhD Tags: Health Care syndicated Source Type: blogs
Healthcare In Estonia: Where Grandmas Go For Genetic Data
Imagine a country where citizens will have their genetic profiles integrated into the digital health system with individual risk scores and pharmacogenomic information, so when they go to the doctor, they will get fully personalized, genetic risk-based diagnosis, medication, and preventive measures. That’s where healthcare in Estonia will arrive soon. They started to build their digital health system 20 years ago, and within the next years, the Baltic country will start to reap the benefits of a transparent, blockchain-based, digital health system hooked on genetic data. The first fully digitized republic certainly sets ...
Source: The Medical Futurist - May 16, 2019 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Future of Medicine Healthcare Policy analysis digital digital democracy digital health digital health strategy digital health system digital healthcare Estonia genetics genomics personalized Personalized medicine pharmacogenomi Source Type: blogs
5G In Healthcare: Boosting Remote Brain Surgeries, Connected Health, Or Medical VR
The next telecommunication revolution is just around the corner: the promises of high bandwidth, low latency and low-power-low-cost of 5G will open the gate to a flood of new inventions and the implementation of ideas, which are already long in the public consciousness – such as stable augmented reality or truly immersive virtual reality platforms powered by networks. 5G in healthcare will finally allow the building of infrastructure suitable for the interplay of health sensors, algorithms, and smart devices, for the smooth operation of telemedicine, or even for providing a way for parents to interact with babies who are...
Source: The Medical Futurist - May 4, 2019 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Future of Medicine Telemedicine & Smartphones 5G connected digital Innovation IoT medical medical technology mobile mobile health Surgery telecom telecommunication telehealth telesurgery Source Type: blogs
World Happiness Report 2019
United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network - The World Happiness Report is a survey of the state of global happiness that ranks 156 countries by how happy their citizens perceive themselves to be. This year ’s report focuses on happiness and the community - how happiness has evolved over the past dozen years, with a focus on the technologies, social norms, conflicts and government policies that have driven those changes. Finland was ranked highest for the second year in a row, while South Sudan ranke d lowest. The UK was placed fifteenth.ReportMore detail (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - March 24, 2019 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Information & Knowledge Service Tags: Local authorities, public health and health inequalities Mental Health Source Type: blogs
How long does a joint replacement last?
Joint replacement surgery represents one of the biggest and most life-changing advances in modern medicine. It has meant the difference between disability from crippling arthritis and nearly normal mobility for millions of people in recent decades. The hip and knee are, by far, the most commonly replaced joints, and they have the most reliable results. In the US each year, more than 300,000 hips and 700,000 knees are replaced, and the results are generally good. But every time a joint is replaced, an important question looms: how long will it last?
It’s a fair question. After all, no one wants to go through the risk, dis...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - March 18, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Robert H. Shmerling, MD Tags: Bones and joints Health Surgery Source Type: blogs
People overreport their height and underreport their weight. What are the real numbers?
From the NYTimes:“People tend to overreport their height and underreport their weight,” said the senior author, Cynthia L. Ogden, an epidemiologist at the C.D.C. The new figures, she noted, are the result of actual measurements:Meet the average American man. He weighs 198 pounds and stands 5 feet 9 inches tall. He has a 40-inch waist, and hisbody mass index is 29, at the high end of the “overweight” category.The picture for the average woman? She is roughly 5 feet 4 inches tall, and weighs 171 pounds, with a 39-inch waist. Her B.M.I. is close to 30."Men and women gained more than 30 pounds from 1960 to 2016.Accordi...
Source: Clinical Cases and Images - Blog - January 16, 2019 Category: Universities & Medical Training Tags: NYTimes Source Type: blogs
The Good, The Bad and The Weird: Health Tech From CES 2019
Smart belt for weight loss, spider-like walking car, terrifying Robo-Sharks, IoT cat toilet, the real version of the monolith from Space Odyssey: the world’s most famous tech circus brings the superlatives of innovation to Las Vegas every year. Here, we sorted out the most exciting, the less useful or the outright dumbest health technologies from CES 2019.
The year of the solar cow
What do power banks and cows have in common? The 2019 CES Innovation Award, actually. It’s a brilliant project of a South Korean solar energy company, Yolk, having partnered with a Kenyan educational institution, to keep children at school....
Source: The Medical Futurist - January 10, 2019 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Future of Medicine ces CES 2019 digital digital health digital health tech gadgets health technology health trends Innovation smartwatch summit wearables Source Type: blogs
The Good, The Bad and The Weird: Health Tech From CES 2019
Smart belt for weight loss, spider-like walking car, terrifying Robo-Sharks, IoT cat toilet, the real version of the monolith from Space Odyssey: the world’s most famous tech circus brings the superlatives of innovation to Las Vegas every year. Here, we sorted out the most exciting, the less useful or the outright dumbest health technology from CES 2019.
The year of the solar cow
What do power banks and cows have in common? The 2019 CES Innovation Award, actually. It’s a brilliant project of a South Korean solar energy company, Yolk, having partnered with a Kenyan educational institution, to keep children at school. W...
Source: The Medical Futurist - January 10, 2019 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Future of Medicine ces CES 2019 digital digital health digital health tech gadgets health technology health trends Innovation smartwatch summit wearables Source Type: blogs
The Good, The Bad and The Weird: Health Tech From CES 2019
Smart belt for weight loss, spider-like walking car, terrifying Robo-Sharks, IoT cat toilet, the real version of the monolith from Space Odyssey: the world’s most famous tech circus brings the superlatives of innovation to Las Vegas every year. Here, we sorted out the most exciting, the less useful or the outright dumbest health technologies from CES 2019.
The year of the solar cow
What do power banks and cows have in common? The 2019 CES Innovation Award, actually. It’s a brilliant project of a South Korean solar energy company, Yolk, having partnered with a Kenyan educational institution, to keep children at school....
Source: The Medical Futurist - January 10, 2019 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Future of Medicine ces CES 2019 digital digital health digital health tech gadgets health technology health trends Innovation smartwatch summit wearables Source Type: blogs
Surgery for appendicitis? Antibiotics alone may be enough
I remember when my best friend in fifth grade couldn’t make our much-anticipated end-of-the-school-year camping trip because he had just undergone surgery for appendicitis. Now I prevent kids from participating in their school activities for four to six weeks after I remove their appendix. But what is the appendix, why do we have an organ that causes so many problems, and do you need surgery for appendicitis?
Role of the appendix is unclear
The appendix is a fingerlike tube, about three to four inches long, that comes off of the first portion of the colon. It is normally located in the lower right abdomen, just after the...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - January 9, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christopher J. Burns, MD Tags: Drugs and Supplements Health Surgery Source Type: blogs
High Tax Rates Won ’t Work in Today’s Economy
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortezis making headlines calling for raising the top individual income tax rate to 70 percent to fund a Green New Deal. Sympathetic commentators are saying that such a high rate on the wealthy is no big deal because the top tax rate used to be 70 percent and above. Noah Smith atBloombergsays the congresswomen ’s plan would be “a return to the 20th century norm.”The problem is that globalization has dramatically changed the economy over recent decades. High tax rates were not a good idea back then, but they would be disastrous now.Before the 1980s, capital controls under fixed currency exchange...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - January 8, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: Chris Edwards Source Type: blogs
Top 10 Digital Health Mergers And Acquisitions Show Trends For 2019
In 2018, the digital health market has seen just as a turbulent year as before – if not even more volatile and unpredictable. MobiHealthNews saw a record-breaking 56 acquisitions and mergers in the space, 13 of which had disclosed price tags totaling $7.6 billion. While the market space relentlessly expands, some trends show the maturing of the scene: growth is mainly due to the slow awakening of huge traditional healthcare/pharma companies or agile tech giants, while small startups have less chance to survive on their own. Let’s see the most important digital health mergers and acquisitions of last year!
Top 10 digita...
Source: The Medical Futurist - January 8, 2019 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Business Future of Medicine Source Type: blogs
Top 10 Digital Health Mergers And Acquisitions Show Trends For 2019
In 2018, the digital health market saw just as a turbulent year as before – if not even more volatile and unpredictable. MobiHealthNews saw a record-breaking 56 acquisitions and mergers in the space, 13 of which had disclosed price tags totaling $7.6 billion. While the market space relentlessly expands, some trends show the maturing of the scene: growth is mainly due to the slow awakening of huge traditional healthcare/pharma companies or agile tech giants, while small startups have less chance to survive on their own. Let’s see the most important digital health mergers and acquisitions of last year!
Top 10 digital hea...
Source: The Medical Futurist - January 8, 2019 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Business Future of Medicine AI amazon artificial intelligence companies diabetes digital health digital health companies Fitbit Healthcare healthcare market mergers transportation Source Type: blogs
