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5 Ways Medical Virtual Reality Is Already Changing Healthcare
Virtual Reality started its fascinating take-over of healthcare for the greatest pleasure of patients and doctors alike. Here are five great examples of medical VR transforming patient lives and how doctors work. Did you know it is possible to swim with whales in the ocean while lying on a hospital bed? Have you imagined experiencing your 74th birthday as a 20-something? Perhaps followed a risky surgery from your couch? Medical VR is an area with fascinating possibilities. It has not just moved the imagination of science-fiction fans, but also clinical researchers and real life medical practitioners. Although the field is...
Source: The Medical Futurist - June 21, 2016 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Medical Education Virtual Reality in Medicine future GC1 Innovation technology VR Source Type: blogs

6 Medical Specialties with the Biggest Potential in the Future
Some say technology will replace 80% of doctors in the future. I disagree. Instead, technology will finally allow doctors to focus on what makes them good physicians: treating patients and innovating, while automation does the repetitive part of the work. Here are the 6 medical fields which will benefit the most. Artificial intelligence, wearable sensors, virtual reality, medical robots – these disruptive technologies are completely changing the way patients and doctors think and act about healthcare. It also seems inevitable that medical robots, automation and artificial intelligence will replace many jobs in heal...
Source: The Medical Futurist - June 9, 2016 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Future of Medicine Health Sensors & Trackers Personalized Medicine gc4 Innovation medical technology Source Type: blogs

It's a Three-Peat!
For the third year in a row, my commentary has placed at the Catholic Press Awards. This year they won second place in the Best Regular Column Spiritual Life" category. In 2015, I won third place in the "Best Regular Column - Culture, the Arts, and Leisure." In 2014, my commentary won first place in same category. I think I can say it is a Three-Peat.I am sincerely grateful to the Register for giving my labor of love a home. There are few places that have the insight and vision to appreciate the importance of the topics I write about. Please give them your support.In case you missed any of my pieces at ...
Source: Mary Meets Dolly - June 6, 2016 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Source Type: blogs

Five tips for defending your online privacy in healthcare: Infographic
An overwhelming majority of healthcare organizations have been victims of cyber-attacks. As digital health spreads from wearable devices on our body to implantables inside it, cyber threats can become painfully real. What can we do to protect against them today? According to studies by PWC and the SANS Institute, 94% of healthcare organizations have been victims of a cyber-attack. As we use more and more devices from smartphones to wearable sensors, your online privacy can have a very real impact on our health and well-being. When hacked, even simple wearables can yield private information about our vital signs and reveal ...
Source: The Medical Futurist - June 2, 2016 Category: Information Technology Authors: berci.mesko Tags: Mobile Health Social media in Healthcare gc4 Source Type: blogs

The Coolest Medical Robots in Sci-fi Movies
Here are my top 9 movies with medical robots. As a science fiction fanatic, movies that speculate about the future and depict how robots will be used fascinate me. Some of them describe robots as dumb mechanical machines while others merge them with artificial intelligence. All of their ideas may still become reality. 1) Ender’s Game One of the iconic sci-fi books meant to be on the big screen, Ender’s Game features a surgical robot performing brain surgery on one of the lead characters. The robot was actually designed by Blake Hannaford and his biorobotics team at the University of Washington, which means it was as...
Source: The Medical Futurist - May 31, 2016 Category: Information Technology Authors: berci.mesko Tags: Medical Robotics Medical Science Fiction GC1 Source Type: blogs

Will The Medical Tricorder From Star Trek Become Real?
Analyzing disease instantly: the medical tricorder has been one of the most exciting futuristic technologies in medicine since Star Trek. But will it ever get to the black bag of General Practitioners? As a movie fan, I love talking about how the science fiction movies of the last 100 years have shaped our ideas about medical technology. When university students doing film studies asked me to give a talk on how sci-fi influenced medical technology, I dedicated a whole section to technology inspired by Star Trek. The long list includes telepresence, the hypospray for painless injections, voice–activated communicators, the...
Source: The Medical Futurist - May 25, 2016 Category: Information Technology Authors: berci.mesko Tags: Portable Diagnostics GC1 Source Type: blogs

Can An Algorithm Diagnose Better Than A Doctor?
Will artificial intelligence solve doctor shortages? Will it be able to replace the art of making a correct diagnosis? Not anytime soon. Many times after my talks, people ask me whether algorithms could theoretically be better at making a diagnosis than doctors. With my doctor’s cap on, I must defend the art of medicine. But as a medical futurist I need to tell my honest views. Making a diagnosis is an art. We humans are not engineering products, and therefore measuring a few parameters and tweaking a few knobs will not diagnose and cure our diseases. Part of the art of diagnosis is looking at the whole human being. The ...
Source: The Medical Futurist - May 19, 2016 Category: Information Technology Authors: berci.mesko Tags: Artificial Intelligence in Medicine gc4 Source Type: blogs

CliniCloud Review: Should Doctors and Patients Use the Digital Stethoscope?
The digital stethoscope lets patients and doctors record cardiac and lung sounds, then stream them to a clinician remotely, storing them for comparisons later. Doctors have always relied on the stethoscope to diagnose common conditions, from asthma and pneumonia to the common cold. The modern stethoscope has become a symbol of being a physician. However, the technology is still basically the same as the 19th century French invention of putting a wooden tube to the patient’s body to augment sounds. In the day of portable ultrasound and cloud storage, the stethoscope cannot be used to diagnose a patient remotely, or compa...
Source: The Medical Futurist - May 17, 2016 Category: Information Technology Authors: berci.mesko Tags: Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Portable Diagnostics gc4 Source Type: blogs

10 Ways The Future of Digital Health Can Run Wild
I’m truly excited for the future of medicine – sometimes it feels like we’re living in a science -fiction novel. But genetic discrimination and the elimination of privacy are just some of the problems we’ll face if we let medical innovation run wild. As The Medical Futurist, I’m constantly thinking about the ethical implications of disruptive technologies. I’m a born optimist. More people have access to better treatments than ever before. We have eradicated deadly diseases and turned others into manageable conditions. But there are signs of alarming trends that few take seriously. Countries globally face do...
Source: The Medical Futurist - May 11, 2016 Category: Information Technology Authors: berci.mesko Tags: Bioethics GC1 Source Type: blogs

The Fascinating World of Food Scanners – Is It Possible To Scan Food For Ingredients?
An emotional question by a mother whose child has food allergies led me to discover the fascinating world of food scanners. Will we ever really know what’s on our plates? And if we knew, what could we do with the answer? I often blog about trends that promise to have the biggest influence on medicine in the coming years. These posts receive a lot of feedback from people around the world. After I published predictions for how medical technology will advance in 2015, a mother left an emotional comment about her daughter of 8 years who was allergic to most foods. She described how hard it was to find food her daughter can ...
Source: The Medical Futurist - May 5, 2016 Category: Information Technology Authors: berci.mesko Tags: Future of Food GC1 Source Type: blogs

From IBM to Google – 10 Surprising Companies You Didn’t Expect to Embrace Disruptive Health Innovation
From time to time, I come across collaborations in healthcare between companies which are both promising and surprising. From IBM to Google – here are the top 10 companies you didn’t expect to embrace disruptive health innovation. Digital health sounds like a niche but will have an impact on all areas of our lives soon. Collaborations between innovative healthcare companies and industry leading giants underscore this notion. The ones I’m most excited about feature companies that everyone knows, but whose exciting contributions to digital health get little attention. 1) Insurance that promotes healthy living Oscar ...
Source: The Medical Futurist - May 3, 2016 Category: Information Technology Authors: berci.mesko Tags: Future of Medicine GC1 Source Type: blogs

Genetic Engineering and Building a Better Soldier: Captain America vs. Ironman
COMMENTARY: Volunteering our bodies for non-therapeutic enhancement and experimentation isnt patriotic. I will admit the question was loaded. I asked various Catholics, through my blog and social media, who was a better role model: Captain America or Ironman? The answers werent surprising. The overwhelming choice was Captain America. Steve Rogers isnt only a paragon of courage and patriotism, hes an all-around nice guy, a champion for the weak and an example of self-sacrifice. Tony Stark, on the other hand, is a greedy narcissist whose philandering nearly everyone finds repugnant. The question seemed outright rid...
Source: Mary Meets Dolly - May 2, 2016 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Tags: Genetic Engineering Source Type: blogs

WRIFO: Women Researchers in Fungi & Oomycetes
In an effort to promote the diversity of women in fungal and oomycete biology research we started a list of Women Researchers in Fungi & Oomycetes (#WRIFO) in our fields. We hope this will make it easier for conference, seminar and award committees to consider a broad pool of candidates when inviting speakers or nominating individuals. We seeded the WRIFO list with 150 women whose research we know or who were suggested by colleagues, but it is by no means complete. Please add names and add missing details to those already on the list. The WRIFO list is available as a google spreadsheet here (shortlink: http://s.fungid...
Source: Fungal Genomes and Comparative Genomics - April 25, 2016 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Authors: Jason Stajich Tags: fungi news oomycete opinion conferences fungal researchers fungi researchers oomycete researchers seminars speakers women in science WRIFFO Source Type: blogs

Uterus Transplants are "Supremely Risky"
It was a first in the United States. A woman, only identified as Lindsey, received a uterus from a deceased woman. Lindsey was born without a uterus, and she was hoping this transplant would enable her to get pregnant. At a press conference at the end of February, Cleveland doctors announced it was the first successful uterus transplant in the United States. Only days later, Lindsey suffered complications and had to undergo another surgery to remove the organ. The Cleveland team of doctors has been given permission to experiment with uterus transplants in nine other women, and a few other clinics will also attempt the proc...
Source: Mary Meets Dolly - April 18, 2016 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Tags: Reproductive Technologies Source Type: blogs