These 8 Countries Could Put Together The World's Best Healthcare – This And More News In Digital Health This Week
Bertalan Meskó, MD, PhD
Director of The Medical Futurist Institute (Keynote Speaker, Researcher, Author & Futurist)
If we are looking for one common thing in healthcare systems around the world, it's that nobody is truly satisfied with their own.
Can we, dreaming freely, come up with the perfect one? There are so many good examples from business to regulations that we tried to imagine what healthcare would look like if we could combine the best practices.
An interesting phenomenon: some of the best practices in healthcare come from relatively small countries with limited resources.
Collecting the most advanced practices from business incubation to government policies, from health IT to longevity-oriented thinking - here is the Best Of Healthcare Champions League from The Medical Futurist.
Virtual employees are infiltrating the office! They are outfitted with programmed personalities and generated smiles, and it's getting harder to differentiate them from real people.
For example: "Synthesia uses generative adversarial networks to synthesize videos that feature photorealistic talking heads that read scripts aloud in 34 languages. Customers use the service to generate training and sales videos without a human actor."
Are you looking for an efficient way to get up to speed with everything digital health-related? If so, we encourage you to take a look at the Digital Health Course of The Medical Futurist and try the first few modules without a commitment.
The course was designed for everyone who could benefit from a better understanding of current healthcare trends and from being able to better predict the next ones.
Maybe we have been looking for the signs of cancer in the wrong way. Let's get familiar with the expression: cancer's "dark matter".
"The revelation shows that epigenetics, cells controlling gene activity, play a crucial role in the development of cancer. Cancers are usually tested for DNA mutations alone, which can miss this level of control, thereby failing to predict how cancers may behave and respond to treatment.
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It seems there are scientific breakthroughs in the field of tackling aging. This article summarizes a few.
"Now, after more than a decade of studying and tweaking so-called cellular reprogramming, a number of biotech companies and research labs say they have tantalizing hints the process could be the gateway to an unprecedented new technology for age reversal."
"The Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare in Japan is starting a pilot to promote the adoption of electronic medication notebook applications in pharmacies across the country.
The project will involve approximately 600 customers of about 40 pharmacies in the country who will be asked to record their usage of OTC drugs, how they receive guidance from pharmacists and how they use an electronic medication notebook to check information about their medications."
Throughout the last couple of years, I have tested and used about 150 devices and gadgets that measure health parameters or vital signs. From the very first Fitbit to A.I.-driven portable ultrasounds, the evolution is real, and I am delighted to have had the opportunity to watch it first-hand.
Here is my advice for companies and start-ups eager to develop wearable health trackers.
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Global Digital Health expert
2yVery interesting list! While one could quibble with who’s in and who’s out there is a more fundamental question to be posed: Are we doing enough to share Best Practices around the world? Specifically, is the WHO and the World Bank doing enough? To accelerate the update and adoption of long-overdue #digitalhealth we need all hands on deck. This “post-Covid” era gives us a chance and limited window of time to finally (!) get this job done.