Future of Medicine

We designed this course to provide a complete overview of digital health, guiding users through the technological aspects, and equipping them to be able to predict and forecast what’s coming next.

Remember Monty Python’s brilliant Life of Brian movie scene where the Palestinian insurgent commando, planning the abduction of Pilate’s wife in return for all the horrors they had to endure from the Roman Empire, asks the rhetorical question: what have the Romans ever done for us? With the hype and overmarketing, not to speak about the fears around A.I, we asked the same question. What has A.I. in medicine ever done for us? Well, we found at least 45 things.

Digital health tools are greatly helping epilesy patients, creating an ecosystem in which they are enpowered to have bigger control. Devices however still need to improve.

Those of you who follow The Medical Futurist channels closely know how much we support digital health technology. It is not without a reason – […]

Science fiction has for long fantasised about ways to augment fragile humans’ power and endurance through mechanical means. In Edge of Tomorrow, Tom Cruise’s abilities […]

When a patient heads to a healthcare institution and is prescribed medicines, one might expect them to stick to the regimen to improve their health. […]

Since the first television sets were commercialised in the early 20th century, these devices have become ubiquitous in homes around the world. Even though they […]

Transparent communication, clinically-validated technologies, addressing real-life clinical needs; these might sound like no-brainer components to a digital health company since they are working in the […]

When it comes to non-fungible tokens (NFTs), or the emerging form of digital certificate that certifies an asset as being one-of-a-kind, the world seems to […]

As they say, new year, new beginnings; and this also applies to the field of digital health! With the COVID-19 pandemic still raging, the crisis […]

The digitisation of hospital systems is yet another result the pandemic’s challenges have brought upon us. The urgency for extra bandwidth needed for remote care […]

As 2021 is about to wrap up, we are reflecting on some of the most important news revolving around artificial intelligence (A.I.) in healthcare. These […]

The Hippocratic Oath is the most famous text in Western medicine. It constitutes the ethical basis of the medical profession. For centuries, it has provided […]

As a researcher, I have always lived for the moments when I had to see a whole process and analyse the small details at once. […]

As 2020 passed, we all thought we’d be better off with 2021, so we were happy to roll the old year off the cliff (or […]

Vocal biomarkers have amazing potential in reforming diagnostics. As certain diseases, like those affecting the heart, lungs, vocal folds or the brain can alter a […]