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We have no idea what the rapid technological development, the so-called fourth industrial revolution will bring upon us in the next decades. There is only one certainty: we will need a new set of skills to find our place in the future.
Do you look at elderly people struggling to find the right button on their phones to send pictures of their newly purchased, blossoming orchids to their children or grandchildren with a somewhat forgiving smile and a hint of smuggery knowing that a similar situation would never ever happen to you? Well, don’t be so sure. Twenty years ago they did not think that they have to learn how to de...
Source: The Medical Futurist - September 22, 2016 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Future of Medicine Education GC1 Innovation knowledge Medical education networking skills social media technology web2.0 Source Type: blogs
Disruptive Technologies Push Bioterrorism To A Whole New Level
Terrorism is and will always be out there as we do not live in a world depicted in the movie Minority Report where crimes can be prevented by foreseeing them. We cannot and we do not want to supervise people’s lives as that would be the death of privacy. Also, disruptive technologies not only enhance the opportunities of true visionaries who want to make the world a better place but also the dreams of the bad guys ready for such dreadful acts as bioterrorism. We need to talk about it.
Biological sabotage campaigns and anthrax attacks: bioterrorism in the past
Although the term bioterrorism was coined in a book entitled...
Source: The Medical Futurist - September 21, 2016 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Bioethics 3d printing artificial intelligence biological bioterror bioterrorism digestables GC1 Healthcare Medicine robotics wearables Source Type: blogs
Futura Genetics Analyzed my Genome – Genetic Test Review
Through the rise of personalized medicine, carrying out genome tests at home became feasible. With a PhD in genomics, I’m always curious and excited to try out novelties in my field. This time, Futura Genetics offered me a genetic test, and I was happy to give it a try.
Genome Testing is Sexy
Genome tests have been in the spotlight for years. Patients have been able to order such tests online with 23andme, Navigenics or Pathway Genomics since 2005, 2006 and 2007. The basic assumption is that anyone can order a test from home and learn about their risks for certain medical conditions, and what lifestyle choices they sho...
Source: The Medical Futurist - September 20, 2016 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Genomics Futura Genetics future gc3 Genetic testing Genome Innovation Source Type: blogs
The Most Over-Hyped Technologies in Healthcare
The hype about the technological development in healthcare should not blind you in terms of the probabilities and possibilities of today’s healthcare and the future of medicine. In order to remain objective, conscious but optimistic, let’s look at the most over-hyped technologies and keep in mind the realistic development opportunities in healing.
You know the saying: the pessimist says the glass is half empty, the optimist says it is half full, and, well, the cynic asks who drank the other half? I’m truly an optimist – especially when it comes to the future of medicine and healthcare.
And although my optimism is ...
Source: The Medical Futurist - September 13, 2016 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Future of Medicine 3d printing GC1 Healthcare hype organs robotics technology theranos virtual reality wearables Source Type: blogs
Postdoc: Institute Pasteur working on Candida albicans
2 postdoc positions for work on Candida albicans from Christian d’Enfert’s group at Institute Pasteur
Post-doctoral position: Candida albicans regulatory networks
A post-doctoral position is available starting January 2, 2017 in the Fungal Biology and Pathogenicity Unit in the Department of Mycology at Institut Pasteur, Paris, to characterize regulatory networks governing morphogenesis and stress responses in the fungal pathogen Candida albicans.
The successful candidate will join our group to characterize a set of C. albicans transcription factors using genome-wide approaches and contribute to the def...
Source: Fungal Genomes and Comparative Genomics - September 8, 2016 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Authors: Jason Stajich Tags: postdoc biofilm candida Candida albicans Institute Pasteur Source Type: blogs
Policy-Makers Should Boost Digital Health
Healthcare systems can become more sustainable with the help of disruptive health technologies through changing the building-blocks of the system: the patients and the doctors. Such a bottom-up method should also be facilitated by policy-makers.
Healthcare is unsustainable.
That simple, but powerful statement is true in many countries around the globe.
According to OECD projections, in Europe, public expenditure on health and long-term care in OECD countries is set to increase from around 6% of GDP today to almost 9% of GDP in 2030 and as much as 14% by 2060, unless governments can contain costs. The international organi...
Source: The Medical Futurist - September 8, 2016 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Healthcare Design future gc4 healthcare policy healthcare systems Innovation Medicine policy-making Source Type: blogs
Vein Scanners: Examples For Disruption
The blood draw, one of the most widespread and most feared medical tests, can be revolutionized with the help of vein scanners which ease the process for patients and doctors alike – if the technology itself is affordable and available, so disruptive enough.
There is hardly any adult in the developed world who has never been the subject of a blood draw. The easiest way to access medical information about a patient is through a blood test. There are 9 billion blood draws per year in the United States alone and blood tests inform over 70 percent of medical decisions.
However, many have serious fears about it. On the one ...
Source: The Medical Futurist - September 6, 2016 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Medical Augmented Reality Portable Diagnostics blood draw blood test future GC1 Health 2.0 Healthcare Hospital phlebotomy technology vein scanners veinviewer Source Type: blogs
Imaginary Conversation In 2050 With My Future Grandchild About Today ’s Healthcare
I receive many questions after my talks and on my online channels about the not yet visible future. People want to know what healthcare will be like in the next decades. But throwing around predictions will not help us design a better healthcare. Although showing an utopian future of healthcare might do so.
On a chilly October afternoon in 2050,
after having watched the leaves falling off the trees from our garden too long to get bored, my beautiful and overtly curious grandchild, Nina, came to me and started asking me questions.
She pointed at one of the many CubeSensors in the living room – small, very simply des...
Source: The Medical Futurist - August 31, 2016 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Healthcare Design Medical Science Fiction future gc4 Medical education Medicine Personalized medicine technology Source Type: blogs
Looking Back At Today ’s Healthcare In 2050
I receive many questions after my talks and on my online channels about the not yet visible future. People want to know what healthcare will be like in the next decades. But throwing around predictions will not help us design a better healthcare. Although showing an utopian future of healthcare might do so.
On a chilly October afternoon in 2050,
after having watched the leaves falling off the trees from our garden too long to get bored, my beautiful and overtly curious grandchild, Nina, came to me and started asking me questions.
She pointed at one of the many CubeSensors in the living room – small, very simply des...
Source: The Medical Futurist - August 31, 2016 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Healthcare Design Medical Science Fiction future gc4 Medical education Medicine Personalized medicine technology Source Type: blogs
Healthcare Is Coming Home With Sensors And Algorithms
Instead of futuristic hospital buildings and huge devices, disruptive technologies injected into small, almost invisible objects will set the trends in medicine. Such devices will create smart households bringing healthcare home.
Anna could not figure out what is wrong with her: in spite of being generally healthy, she has been sweating during sleep for days, she had lost some weight although she gave up her diet a while ago and she has been feeling mortifyingly tired for a while. It was not only her who noticed these symptoms but also her smart home: the sleep tracker mattress, the microchip in the toilet which detected...
Source: The Medical Futurist - August 30, 2016 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Health Sensors & Trackers Healthcare Design future of hospital gc4 ibm watson Personalized medicine smart home technology Source Type: blogs
Top 10 Online Medical Resources For Patients
There are already terrabytes of data online and sometimes it is difficult to differentiate among true/false and relevant/irrelevant data. Although doing so is especially important in the case of medicine and healthcare since the well-being of people is at stake. So it is high time to show my top 10 choices when it comes to online medical resources.
The internet is the infinite storehouse of inconceivable products of the human mind. Would you like to watch a dog playing the piano? Would you like to buy an inflatable blue spaceship from Star Wars? You can find (almost) everything online, which is great but at the same time...
Source: The Medical Futurist - August 18, 2016 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Empowered Patients Social media in Healthcare digital gc2 Medical education Medicine Medicine 2.0 online resources Web 2.0 Webicina Source Type: blogs
The Bright Future of Pharmacies
The rapid development of medical technology affects every aspect of medicine and healthcare – and even the seemingly most remote and ivory-tower-like institution, pharmacy, cannot escape its transformative power. Let me show you the bright future of pharmacies.
Although pharmacies play a key role in the healing process, the impression of patients about pharmacists and their drug store is often that they offer a type of commercial/business-like service. The doctor prescribes the appropriate medicine with the appropriate instructions, and the pharmacist provides it in exchange for money. A clear business.
However, as the...
Source: The Medical Futurist - August 17, 2016 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Future of Medicine Future of Pharma 3d printing gc4 Healthcare Personalized medicine pharmacies Source Type: blogs
What Is Living With An Artificial Pancreas Like?
Diabetes is a lifelong condition with no cure. It requires constant attention from the patient and his or her environment. Now, artificial pancreas is coming into the everyday-life of diabetes patients to unburden them and enable them to live a normal life. I had a great conversation with the inventor of the DIY pancreas, Dana Lewis to get to know how it feels like to elevate life with diabetes to a whole new level.
Diabetes management faces extraordinary times with sensors and digital contact lenses but that positive future requires innovators like Dana Lewis who uses a DIY pancreas system.
Traditionally, to monitor b...
Source: The Medical Futurist - August 16, 2016 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Augmentation in Medicine Empowered Patients artificial pancreas bionic pancreas diabetes DYI future gc2 Healthcare Personalized medicine wearables Source Type: blogs
10 Disruptive Technologies That Will Transform Pharma
It’s fascinating to witness how disruptive innovations can truly change the way healthcare is delivered and medicine is practiced. Enormous technological changes are heading our way and they will transform pharma too.
However, if the waves of change hit us unprepared – which we are now – they will wash away the medical system we know and leave it purely a technology-based service with no personal interaction. Such a complicated system should not be allowed to just wash away; it should be consciously and purposely redesigned, piece by piece. If we are unprepared for the future, then this opportunity will be lost.
W...
Source: The Medical Futurist - August 10, 2016 Category: Information Technology Authors: AnnaV Tags: Empowered Patients Future of Pharma GC1 Source Type: blogs
Postdoc: UMichigan Fungal Genomics
The lab of Tim James in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Michigan is looking to hire a postdoctoral fellow in the area of single cell and comparative genomics. The research is centered on understanding the phylogeny and molecular evolution of uncultured and poorly known fungi, including the Cryptomycetes, Zygomycetes, and Chytridiomycetes through genomic analyses. The ultimate goals of the project are to produce a well-resolved phylogeny of the basal branches of the fungal kingdom, to identify key evolutionary events associated with diversification and reproduction, and to use genomic...
Source: Fungal Genomes and Comparative Genomics - August 5, 2016 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Authors: Jason Stajich Tags: chytridomycota postdoc zygomycete genomics michigan zygolife Source Type: blogs
