Marie Kondo And Digital Health
The Japanese art of decluttering and tidying up could show
medical professionals what they could get rid of in healthcare so the
surroundings of patients and care processes could become agreeable. Here, the
aim is not to “spark joy” but to make all the activities in healthcare
invisible and inevitable – no waiting times, no (necessary) medical visits,
less administration – to cause as little concern
to patients as possible. Let’s see how digital health could help make
medicine neat!
A fragile Japanese woman and the art of tidying up
After Netflix introduced its latest reality show about
Marie Kondo, th...
Source: The Medical Futurist - February 16, 2019 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Healthcare Design administration chatbot chatbots decluttering digital health marie kondo patient management smart smart healthcare technology telemedicine tidying up waiting waiting time Source Type: blogs
Healthcare And Medicine Needs A Global FDA
Globalization reached healthcare big time: a French patient can easily ask a Belgian company to sequence the DNA of his tumor tissue, then convince a Swiss pharma company to sign them up for a relevant clinical trial on a Spanish island. Not only that but also the recent controversies around gene editing in babies in China, as well as the operation of direct-to-consumer genetic testing companies, the online medication scene, health technology companies expanding their services to other countries highlight the need for a global “FDA” day by day.
We are not waiting for regulators
The availability of know-how, raw materia...
Source: The Medical Futurist - January 15, 2019 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Future of Medicine Policy Makers 3d printing diabetes diabetes management digital health digital health companies fda genetics global globalization health policy Healthcare regulation regulations Source Type: blogs
Healthcare And Medicine Needs A Global FDA
Globalization has reached healthcare big time: a French patient can easily ask a Belgian company to sequence the DNA of his tumor tissue, then convince a Swiss pharma company to sign them up for a relevant clinical trial on a Spanish island. Not only that but also the recent controversies around gene editing in babies in China, as well as the operation of direct-to-consumer genetic testing companies, the online medication scene, health technology companies expanding their services to other countries highlight the need for a global “FDA” day by day.
We are not waiting for regulators
The availability of know-how, raw mat...
Source: The Medical Futurist - January 15, 2019 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Future of Medicine Policy Makers 3d printing diabetes diabetes management digital health digital health companies fda genetics global globalization health policy Healthcare regulation regulations 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 United Nations Migration Compact - In Context
Some member states of the United Nations just adopted the “Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration. ” The compact is a legally non-binding statement of principles regarding the treatment of non-humanitarian immigrants, the sharing of information, support for the rule of law in adjudicating immigration matters, and international cooperation. Practically, this compact does not amount to much a s it is legally non-binding and doesn’t change any laws. However, the compact has garnered a lot of international attention since the United States, Austria, Australia, Chile, the Czech Republic, Italy, Hunga...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - December 13, 2018 Category: American Health Authors: Alex Nowrasteh Source Type: blogs
New Index: Human Freedom Falls in More Countries than Not
Today, on Human Rights Day, we are pleased to release theHuman Freedom Index 2018. The report —copublished by the Cato Institute, the Fraser Institute in Canada, and the Liberales Institut at the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom in Germany—measures a broad array of personal, civil and economic freedoms around the world and the extent to which basic rights are protected or violate d.New Zealand and Switzerland are the two freest countries on this year ’s index, while Venezuela and Syria rank last. The United States ranks 17. In 2008, it ranked 11, then fell notably until 2013, after which it rose through 2016,...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - December 10, 2018 Category: American Health Authors: Ian V ásquez Source Type: blogs
Can Money Buy You Longevity And Health?
Better treatment options, dietary conditions and (perhaps) less stress could make the life of the rich also healthier. However, when it comes to longevity and aging, do they really have better chances? Can the upper 0.1 percent secure their health for long decades or even reverse the process of growing old? Could society somehow also benefit from the quest of the richest for longevity?
Are health and longevity on the shopping list?
You can have an awful lot of things with money. For a starter, you can buy ice cream or Nutella, which are synonymous to self-love, so the Beatles was only partly right in singing that you can...
Source: The Medical Futurist - November 22, 2018 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Bioethics Cyborgization Future of Medicine Medical Professionals Patients Policy Makers age aging aging research blood eternal life genetics immortality Innovation life sciences longevity silicon valley stem cell Source Type: blogs
Medical Professionals Put The Ask Me About Digital Badge Into Action Worldwide
70, 22, 380, 6 – Can you guess what these figures stand for? No, unfortunately, we have no clue about how to win the lottery. These are our magic numbers when it comes to the Ask Me About Digital campaign. 70 medical professionals asked The Medical Futurist team to send out 380 badges and/or pins to 22 countries worldwide in the course of the last 6 months. That’s what we call a boost to the patient-doctor communication!
What’s the Ask Me About Digital campaign all about?
We cannot believe how time flies. We launched the Ask Me About Digital campaign in June 2018 with the goal to bridge a communication gap betwee...
Source: The Medical Futurist - November 17, 2018 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: From Chance to Choice Medical Professionals Policy Makers Ask Me About Digital badge campaign digital health doctor-patient doctor-patient relationship health communication Source Type: blogs
