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How Autocracies Could Misuse Digital Health Innovations
How long do you think it will take for authoritarian governments, dictatorships or tyrannies until they realize the vast potential in digital health technologies and until they learn how to harness their powers? Twenty years? Ten years? We have to warn you, the era of 24/7 surveillance and intrusion into the innermost secrets of human life is even closer than that. Watch out! Dystopic worst case scenario-alert! Digital technologies are double-edged swords: they promised social change… On 17 December 2010, a Tunisian vegetable vendor set up his cart on the street in Sidi Bouzid to sell goods that he obtained the day befor...
Source: The Medical Futurist - September 22, 2018 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Bioethics Future of Medicine Security & Privacy AR artificial intelligence big data biotechnology black mirror dystopia genes genetics genomics Health health sensors Healthcare insurance MR Personalized medicine scifi Source Type: blogs

An immigrant physician ’s journey
My name is Dr. Uchenna Umeh, and I am an immigrant (physician). As far back as I can remember, I’ve always wanted to be an architect. My journey to becoming a physician started somewhat as a dare. I was born in Nigeria, the first child of six children from middle-class parents. My father served in the Nigerian air force; my mother was a banker. Towards the end of my secondary education (I attended an all-girls boarding secondary school), my father asked me the natural question, “So what are you going to study in the university?” I eagerly answered, “Architecture!” He went on to say the words which hit me like bri...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - September 9, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/uchenna-umeh" rel="tag" > Uchenna Umeh, MD < /a > Tags: Physician Primary Care Source Type: blogs

Rwanda and the Dreamers of Digital Health in Africa: Wakanda Is Real
Rwandans in remote villages are using an artificial intelligence-based algorithm on their mobile phones to get a diagnosis for their health problems, doctors in Kigali consult their colleagues in the Western Province about radiology cases through telemedicine, blood is delivered by Zipline’s medical drones, and a central electronic health records system ensures data is collected about health activities. Rwanda is a pioneer in digital health in Africa – a real Afrofuturistic embodiment of Black Panther‘s Wakanda. Let’s see how and why that happened. Wakanda gets real in Rwanda Black Panther’s Wakanda...
Source: The Medical Futurist - August 29, 2018 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Future of Medicine Healthcare Policy Africa AI artificial intelligence chatbot development digital health drones government medical drone mobile app mobile health regulation rwanda smartphone telemedicine Source Type: blogs

Predatory Publishers
A recent article in The Guardian “Predatory publishers: the journals that churn out fake science” reported on an investigation (in collaboration with German broadcaster Norddeutsher Rundfunk) into predatory publishers and fake science. According to the article more than 175,000 scientific articles have been produced by the five largest “predatory open access publishers” and 5,000 scientists at British universities have published in predatory publications in the last 5 years. The article mentions that many of the researchers were “exploited by the publishers, who aggressively seek new busin...
Source: The Krafty Librarian - August 13, 2018 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: KraftyLibrarian Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs

Where Is the Boundary to Augment Life?
Cloning, CRISPR and gene editing, synthetic life forms, and longevity. The latest scientific discoveries are able to offset the natural order of human existence and meddle with sacred questions of life and death. Even so, does gaining insight into the secrets of being mean it should also be put into practice? Are we aware of the consequences? Where are the boundaries to augment life? Life, death and the coin for Charon the Ferryman In Japanese folklore, the Shinigami, gods or spirits of death came to the persons who were destined to die and invited them over the threshold of life and death. In ancient Egypt, Anubis, having...
Source: The Medical Futurist - July 28, 2018 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Bioethics Cyborgization artificial intelligence augmentation bioethical cloning CRISPR death future gene editing Health Healthcare life longevity research synthetic life Source Type: blogs

A Cold-Call Email From A Headhunter
I HATE SPAM. HATE it. With a passion. Almost as much as I hate robocalling telemarketers. I REALLY hate them. It would be nice if the Feds would send just one little bitty cruise missile into a Bangalore call center. I do believe that would solve the problem.But back to email SPAM.In among the various advertisements for incredible products (that don ' t exist), emails from Russian women (written by burly gentlemen who probably aren ' t in Russia), and offers from Nigerian princes (who probablyare Nigerian but are unlikely to be royalty), I often find messages from radiological headhunters, middle-men trying to either get m...
Source: Dalai's PACS Blog - July 9, 2018 Category: Radiology Source Type: blogs

Arms Sales: Pouring Gas on the Fires of Conflict
Do arms sales cause war? Or do wars cause arms sales? Critics of arms salesoften argue that selling weapons abroad fuels conflict. And indeed, one can point to one or more sides using American weapons in many recent conflicts including Syria, Yemen, and Iraq. Skeptics argue,on the other hand, that weapons don ’t start the fire and that conflicts would arise whether or arms exporters like the United States sell weapons abroad.The debate has important implications for foreign policy. If selling or transferring weapons abroad makes conflict more likely, or intensifies conflicts already in process, then the United States sho...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - July 2, 2018 Category: American Health Authors: A. Trevor Thrall Source Type: blogs

Africa Is A Hotspot For Digital Health
Digital health in Africa is booming, and that’s the greatest news since the invention of broadband internet connection. The flourishing of disruptive solutions might go down to the fact that instead of relying on traditional infrastructure and a conventional healthcare system, populations in Africa need cheap, easily accessible and genuinely problem-solving technologies. Why, when and how have they got there? Read on! Disrupted infrastructure should be … Africa has the world’s worst health record. The birth-continent of the homo sapiens bears one-quarter of the global disease burden, yet it spends only 1 percent of t...
Source: The Medical Futurist - June 5, 2018 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Future of Medicine Healthcare Policy 3d printing Africa digital digital health digital technology Innovation mhealth mobile mobile health smartphone Source Type: blogs

Pushing Back Against FCPA's Punitive Moralism
Compliance Week invited me to write on what ’s wrong with the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.Excerpt: Scenario: an American city hires an Asian-based bank to float a bond deal. Scandal! Turns out the bank wined and dined the mayor and council and treated them to sports events. After an investigation, the Asian bank agrees to put things right by paying millions of dollars to the government of France.That ’s crazy, right? What does any of this have to do with the government of France? But it’s certainly no crazier than the workings of our own Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, under which European companies have been made...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - May 10, 2018 Category: American Health Authors: Walter Olson Source Type: blogs

Treatments Prescribed For Lower Back Pain Are Often Ineffective, Report Says : NPR
Chances are, you — or someone you know — has suffered from lower back pain.It can be debilitating. It's a leading cause of disability globally.And the number of people with the often-chronic condition is likely to increase.This warning comes via a series of articles published in the medical journal Lancet in March. They state that about 540 million people have lower back pain — and they predict that the number will jump as the world's population ages and as populations in lower- and middle-income countries move to urban centers and adopt more sedentary lives."We don't think about [back pain] the same...
Source: Psychology of Pain - May 10, 2018 Category: Anesthesiology Source Type: blogs

Ukraine, Trump, and Javelin Missiles
Yesterday the New York Timesreported that in early April Ukraine ’s president, Petro Poroshenko, ordered his chief federal prosecutor to halt four anticorruption investigations involving Ukrainians connected to Paul Manafort, Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman and a central figure in Robert Mueller’s investigations here in the United States.Perhaps not coincidentally,Ukraine announced on April 30 that it had received 210 Javelin antitank missiles, purchased from the United States to bolster its fight against Russian proxies in the Donbass region of Ukraine. Though the State Department initially approved the sale...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - May 4, 2018 Category: American Health Authors: A. Trevor Thrall Source Type: blogs

May is Maternal Mental Health Month
The firstWorld Maternal Health Day was launched in 2016, and is commemorated on the first Wednesday of May every year.This year ' stheme on May 2nd is “Listen to Mothers.”Together with organizations from around the world – including Australia, Argentina, Canada, France, Germany, Malta, New Zealand, Nigeria, South Africa, Spain, Turkey, UK, and the US – Maternal Mental Health will be given a worldwide stage to raise awareness about the mental well being of mothers. You can learn more about the your local, in-country events, global initiatives and social media drives by checking out the&...
Source: Dr. Deborah Serani - May 1, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: awareness campaigns awareness days maternal mental health parenting well-being. Source Type: blogs

May 2nd is Maternal Mental Health Month
The firstWorld Maternal Health Day was launched in 2016, and is commemorated on the first Wednesday of May every year.This year ' stheme for is “Listen to Mothers.”Together with organizations from around the world – including Australia, Argentina, Canada, France, Germany, Malta, New Zealand, Nigeria, South Africa, Spain, Turkey, UK, and the US – Maternal Mental Health will be given a worldwide stage to raise awareness about the mental well being of mothers. You can learn more about the your local, in-country events, global initiatives and social media drives by checking out the Wo...
Source: Dr. Deborah Serani - May 1, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: awareness campaigns awareness days maternal mental health parenting well-being. Source Type: blogs