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I was invited to write an article about 10 ways technology will save our lives in the future for CNN.com and I was happy to do so. It was featured today on the main page of CNN. I hope you will find it useful. Here is the introduction:
The medical and healthcare sectors are in the midst of rapid change, and it can be difficult to see which new technologies will have a long-lasting impact.
Ideally, the future of healthcare will balance innovative medical technologies with the human touch. Here, I’ve outlined the trends most likely to change our lives, now or in the near future. (Source: ScienceRoll)
Source: ScienceRoll - February 25, 2014 Category: Geneticists and Genetics Commentators Authors: Bertalan Meskó (MD, PhD) Tags: Genome Google Health Health 2.0 Healthcare Innovation List Medicine Medicine 2.0 Mobile Robotics Technology Telemedicine Web 2.0 cnn future genomics nanotechnology Source Type: blogs
TV Show "Intelligence": Patriotic Transhumanist Propaganda
My husband watches the new TV show "Intelligence" starring Josh Holloway (previously Sawyer from Lost) as Gabriel, a man with a rare genetic mutation (or some such) that allowed the U.S. government to put a chip in his brain. This chip gives Gabriel unlimited access to the Internet directly into his consciousness. As an agent for a super secret intelligence agency, that comes in super handy. Gabriel, the best of all guys, uses his enhancement only for good. He saves people and catches bad guys and he looks good doing it. Gabriel is the quintessential enhanced American hero reminiscent of Captain America, just wit...
Source: Mary Meets Dolly - February 25, 2014 Category: Geneticists and Genetics Commentators Tags: Transhumanism Source Type: blogs
A new way to grow bone: TED Talk
Molly Stevens had a great TED talk about a new way to grow bone.
What does it take to regrow bone in mass quantities? Typical bone regeneration — wherein bone is taken from a patient’s hip and grafted onto damaged bone elsewhere in the body — is limited and can cause great pain just a few years after operation. In an informative talk, Molly Stevens introduces a new stem cell application that harnesses bone’s innate ability to regenerate and produces vast quantities of bone tissue painlessly. (Source: ScienceRoll)
Source: ScienceRoll - February 21, 2014 Category: Geneticists and Genetics Commentators Authors: Bertalan Meskó (MD, PhD) Tags: Ted Talks Video Source Type: blogs
Fantasy Trials in Nephrology
This is not the first time I write about a great social media-based initiative in nephrology. Last time, I covered the social media campaign, NephMadness. Now here is UKidney’s Dream RCT Initiative:
Welcome the DreamRCT initiative. Below are fantasy trials created by nephrologists from around the world. Please vote on the relevance of the trial. Who knows? Perhaps an investigator will get some inspiration and decide do it! Submit yours today! (Source: ScienceRoll)
Source: ScienceRoll - February 21, 2014 Category: Geneticists and Genetics Commentators Authors: Bertalan Meskó (MD, PhD) Tags: Medicine Medicine 2.0 Web 2.0 Source Type: blogs
Social Media in Clinical Practice: Chapter 17, Conclusions
Conclusions:
Social media has been clearly changing the way medicine is practiced and healthcare is delivered. The rising number of e-patients also initiated new movements in this area. Medical professionals of the twenty-first century must be able to meet the special needs of these patients and use digital technologies in their work and communication properly.
New skills have to be acquired in the digital era
There are some basic principles to keep in mind while using the Internet as a medical professional
A summary of purposes social media platforms can be used for
Links and Further Reading
Chapters that have already ...
Source: ScienceRoll - February 18, 2014 Category: Geneticists and Genetics Commentators Authors: Bertalan Meskó (MD, PhD) Tags: Medicine Medicine 2.0 Social Media in Clinical Practice Web 2.0 Source Type: blogs
The “Social Media in Medicine” Course At Semmelweis University Launches!
I’m always very excited when the new semester of the Social Media in Medicine university course launches at Semmelweis University. I’ll introduce medical students to the world of social media by showing them a lot of practical examples; as well as to the world full of technological advances they will face when they leave medical school.
9 weeks, 15 extended topics, two surveys, one exam, and a lot of Facebook challenges every single day.
This course is still unique worldwide and I created a digital format as well so not only medical students and professionals at Semmelweis University can acquire such digital s...
Source: ScienceRoll - February 17, 2014 Category: Geneticists and Genetics Commentators Authors: Bertalan Meskó (MD, PhD) Tags: Medicine Medicine 2.0 Medicine 2.0 Course Web 2.0 hcsm social media Source Type: blogs
Urgent: Tell the FDA What You Think About "Three-Parent" Embryos
On February 25th and 26th, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will be having a meeting to discuss allowing the technique that creates embryos with three genetic parents to proceed to clinical trials. The "three-parent" embryo technique is also called mitochondrial replacement, maternal spindle transfer, or oocyte modification. In an effort to "treat" mitochondrial disease, this technique would intentionally modify IVF embryos to have the genetic material from three persons. This modification is also one that will extend beyond the children produced and will be passed onto future generations. (For mo...
Source: Mary Meets Dolly - February 17, 2014 Category: Geneticists and Genetics Commentators Tags: Genetic Engineering Source Type: blogs
Social Media in Clinical Practice: Chapter 16, Social Bookmarking
When I realized Springer made the individual chapters of my book, Social Media in Clinical Practice, available, I thought it would be useful for future readers to get some insights about each chapter one by one.
Here is the short summary of what you can read about and an excerpt of the sixteenth chapter, Social Bookmarking:
Communication with patients and colleagues and being up-to-date in a field of interest can be time consuming and solutions saving time and effort are very much needed in the medical profession. It is also a common case that medical professionals have to work on different computers, laptops or mobile...
Source: ScienceRoll - February 15, 2014 Category: Geneticists and Genetics Commentators Authors: Bertalan Meskó (MD, PhD) Tags: Medicine Medicine 2.0 Social Media in Clinical Practice Web 2.0 Source Type: blogs
The Medical Futurist: Weekly Introduction
As a medical futurist, I work on bringing disruptive technologies to medicine & healthcare; assisting medical professionals and students in using these in an efficient and secure way; and educating e-patients about how to become equal partners with their caregivers.
I publish a daily newsletter about the future of medicine, and share related news almost every hour on Twitter. Scienceroll.com is updated on a regular basis about the future of healthcare with an emphasis on social media. Here is my white paper, The Guide to the Future of Medicine.
I’m the author of Social Media in Clinical Practice handbook;...
Source: ScienceRoll - February 15, 2014 Category: Geneticists and Genetics Commentators Authors: Bertalan Meskó (MD, PhD) Tags: Medicine Source Type: blogs
Scientist Claims New Reprogramming Technique Works in Human Cells, May Lead to Cloning
After the ground-breaking news last week that Japanese scientists were able reprogram adult cells to embryonic-like cells in mice by simply bathing them in weak acid, the next step was to try this with human cells. The technique is called "stimulus-triggered acquisition of pluripotency", or STAP.With lightening speed, Dr. Charles Vacanti and his team at Harvard Medical School has announced that they have created STAP human cells. New Scientist has the story:Talk about speedy work. Hot on the heels of the news that simply dipping adult mouse cells in acid could turn them into cells with the potential to turn into ...
Source: Mary Meets Dolly - February 12, 2014 Category: Geneticists and Genetics Commentators Tags: STAP stem cells Source Type: blogs
MD Anderson Cancer Center to Use IBM Watson
Do you remember what I predicted for 2014? This is what I wrote:
2) IBM Watson’s first commercial use by hospitals: IBM’s supercomputer has been tested by US clinics for months and it has proven its validity and value in medical decision-making processes. The first hospitals that make their doctors understand that Watson does not replace them, instead, it assists them, will buy the service in 2014.
Now the MD Anderson Cancer Center made an important step:
A few weeks ago, after I started one of my leukemia patients at MD Anderson Cancer Center on a standard course of chemotherapy, my patient developed a potential...
Source: ScienceRoll - February 11, 2014 Category: Geneticists and Genetics Commentators Authors: Bertalan Meskó (MD, PhD) Tags: Health 2.0 Medicine Medicine 2.0 Source Type: blogs
Eugenics Still Coercive and Devoid of Real Compassion
Today more and more people are whole-heartedly embracing eugenics. They probably don't know it as eugenics, but every time a human life in the womb or in the lab is cut short because his or her genetics is not up to snuff, that is undoubtedly eugenics.Many associate the eugenics of old with a lack of compassion and with government coercion. Today's eugenics, in contrast, is perceived as an exercise of free choice and a compassionate endeavor. In modern sensibilities, tossing out embryos or aborting fetuses with genetic disorders, even disorders that will not surface until adulthood (with time for a cure to be found), is th...
Source: Mary Meets Dolly - February 5, 2014 Category: Geneticists and Genetics Commentators Tags: Eugenics Source Type: blogs
Disruptive Technologies in Medicine: Preparing Medical Students For The Future!
I’m very excited to announce that this semester we launch a new course, “Disruptive Technologies in Medicine” with Professor Maria Judit Molnar MD, PhD, DSc, the scientific Vice Rector of Semmelweis University. Our plan is to prepare medical students for those future technologies they will face by the time they start actually practicing medicine. I want to persuade them that the relation between the human touch and technologies is AND instead of OR.
Here are the topics we will cover with experts.
How Exponential and Disruptive Technologies Shape The Future of Medicine
Personalized Medicine – Genomi...
Source: ScienceRoll - February 4, 2014 Category: Geneticists and Genetics Commentators Authors: Bertalan Meskó (MD, PhD) Tags: 3D Printing Disruptive Tech Course Future genetics Health 2.0 Innovation Medical education Medicine Medicine 2.0 Web 2.0 Healthcare Source Type: blogs
Breastfeeding Mothers Getting Help From Google Glass?
I always try to find new ways of using Google Glass in healthcare, but to be honest, I have never thought of this option.
New mothers struggling with breastfeeding may soon have the latest technology at their disposal to get expert help at any time of day.
The Melbourne office of an innovation company called Small World is about to conduct a Google Glass trial with the Australian Breastfeeding Association that will effectively allow their telephone counsellors to see through the eyes of mothers while they breastfeed at home.
The company is looking for 10 Victorian women expecting to give birth in February who want to trial...
Source: ScienceRoll - February 4, 2014 Category: Geneticists and Genetics Commentators Authors: Bertalan Meskó (MD, PhD) Tags: Google Google Glass Health 2.0 Medicine Medicine 2.0 Source Type: blogs
Social Media in Clinical Practice: Chapter 15, E-mails and Privacy Concerns
When I realized Springer made the individual chapters of my book, Social Media in Clinical Practice, available, I thought it would be useful for future readers to get some insights about each chapter one by one.
Here is the short summary of what you can read about and an excerpt of the fifteenth chapter, E-mails and Privacy Concerns:
E-mail or electronic mail is a method of sending and receiving digital messages online. This is one of the most common forms of online communication and while patients usually send simple questions via e-mail to their doctors, it might contain sensitive information which could lead to lega...
Source: ScienceRoll - February 3, 2014 Category: Geneticists and Genetics Commentators Authors: Bertalan Meskó (MD, PhD) Tags: eHealth Health 2.0 Medicine Medicine 2.0 Social Media in Clinical Practice Web 2.0 e-mail Healthcare Source Type: blogs
