Future Health

From AI doctors to 3D X-rays, the future of healthcare is already here

Artificial intelligence has a big future in healthcare, but it's not the only piece of technology transforming the world of medicine.

Are Hospitals Becoming Obsolete?

Hospitals are disappearing. While they may never completely go away, they will continue to shrink in number and importance. That is inevitable and good.

How Big Tech Is Going After Your Health Care

The companies are accelerating their efforts to remake health care by developing or collaborating on new tools for consumers, patients, doctors, insurers and medical researchers. And they are increasingly investing in health start-ups.

How Singapore is shaping the future of healthcare

Singapore’s location has long played to its advantage. Ideally positioned as a hub for trade across the Asia-Pacific region, the country is a vibrant cultural crossroads that has resulted in companies creating innovative solutions that are shaping the wider world. It’s this spirit of innovation that’s made the island a key player in a number of global industries, including biomedical sciences, where the country is pushing boundaries in diagnosis and treatment for millions of patients worldwide.

Managing Your Health Records Should Be As Easy As Managing Your Money

What’s enticing about Apple’s project is that it will finally put clinical data directly into patients’ hands.

The Doctor Will See Your Future Now

Nowadays, doctors can benefit from the collective experience of millions of patients they’ve never met. Increasingly strong computing power and advanced analytics including machine learning and artificial intelligence tools can scan vast quantities of health data in huge repositories spanning geographies and even generations.

The Future of Healthcare Is SELF-CARE And The Future is Now

Even if you are most comfortable with the established, mainstream medicine, there are many ways to become a co-pilot with your doctor while observing your own health.

The future of healthcare: Finding the opportunities that lie beneath the uncertainty

Healthcare is a dynamic industry with significant opportunity, but cost concerns, uncertainty, and complexity can also make it an unnerving one. Substantial upside exists for players that can deliver value-creating solutions and thrive under uncertainty.

The Operating Room of the Future

A host of changes hold out the promise that surgery will be more efficient, more effective and less risky for patients.

These two tech trends will transform the future of healthcare

New advances in medical research could transform such techniques as gene therapy and liquid biopsy from futuristic hypotheses to everyday procedures; robot-assisted surgery is now a reality, and getting more sophisticated by the day. Yet, the change is not going to stop anytime soon—if anything, much more is to come.

What the Hospitals of the Future Look Like

he sprawling institutions we know are radically changing—becoming smaller, more digital, or disappearing completely. The result should be cheaper and better care.

What We Get Wrong About the Future of Medicine

"Personalized medicine is really the medicine of the future, the medicine of today,” explains Kellman. “No two people are alike, even when it comes to disease. No two cancers are alike. We are so different, and there are so many levels that play a role in the development in any disease. Cancer is not just a tumor, it is systemic metabolic disease.”

When Social Needs Are Medical Needs

Health is more about what happens outside the clinic. So why aren’t our high-tech health care systems better at addressing it?

The Future of Health

Medical science is characterized far more by incremental advances than transformational discoveries. Nevertheless, few, areas of research have been hastened more by the technological advances of the past decade than medicine. Thanks largely to the expanding affordability of computing power, data processing, and increasingly sophisticated software, the “precision-medicine” promise of the 2000s is finally here. This raises the question of how far we are willing to go in “playing god.”

The Future Of Health Care Is In Data Analytics

Every minute of the day, eCare21, a remote patient-monitoring system, collects thousands of pieces of health data about more than 1,000 senior citizens. The telehealth system uses smartphones, Fitbits, Bluetooth and sensors to collect information about things like blood pressure, physical activity, glucose levels, medication intake and weight.

An Experts’ Guide to Future Medical Advancement

Amazing technologies are coming to medicine and they are able to revolutionize healthcare in aspects we did not think before that it would be possible. We asked healthcare thought leaders how they see those changes, which the most promising medical technologies can bring into the life of patients and physicians.

Are Hackathons the Future of Medical Innovation?

Doctors can look inside you with magnetic fields and pill-mounted cameras. They use robots to perform surgeries and lasers to fix your vision. And yet, in so many other ways, the field of medicine seems stuck in the past. Doctors carry pagers. They make you call them to schedule an appointment. They force new patients—and even old patients with new needs or new insurance—to fill out a bunch of paperwork ... on actual paper. Doctors are Luddites in white coats.

Fixed in a Flash: The Utopian Future of Health Care, as Seen in Science Fiction

Why our sci-fi dreams of the future of medicine are indistinguishable from magic.

HealthCare 2020: The eDoctor Will See You Now

The most exciting change though will be the effect of artificial intelligence on diagnoses and medical problem solving which will, for the first time, pool humanity’s mental resources to take on scourges like cancer and diabetes.

How Five Technologies Are Shaping The Future Of Health Care

Health care and the life sciences are currently entering a wave of innovation thanks to disruptive, computer-based technologies. Paradoxically, the evolution of machine learning, which raises the threshold of intelligent analysis beyond that of the human brain, can teach us more about what it means to be human.

How Telemedicine Is Transforming Health Care

The revolution is finally here—raising a host of questions for regulators, providers, insurers and patients.

Microscopic Robots Are on the Way to Replacing Your Doctor

Nanotechnology is refreshingly close to helping real, live people.

Should Doctors Play Along With the Uberization of Health Care?

Medical startups are creating networks of freelance M.D.s to treat patients on-demand.

The future of medicine is food

Harlan expects a sea change to take place in the way doctors treat chronic illness—and the way insurance charges for it. At the conference, Kass described a future where doctors write recipes as prescriptions and insurance companies treat food as a reimbursable expense.

The Future of Medicine Is in Your Smartphone

New tools are tilting health-care control from doctors to patients.

The Future of Medicine Is Now

From cancer treatments to new devices to gene therapy, a look at six medical innovations that are poised to transform the way we fight disease.

The future of medicine: Personal, ubiquitous and mobile

The perfect storm of technology trends is about to transform healthcare as mobile tech, genomics, connected devices and artificial intelligence combine.

The Future of Transgender Healthcare Is Online

Transgender patients often travel long distances and pay more for less-than-competent medical care. But as doctors embrace virtual treatment models, those problems may soon be obsolete.

The future of work is the low-wage health care job

The future of work is the low-wage health care job.

Why I’m excited about the promising future of medicine

Health care is a misnomer for our medical system. It should be called sick care. Doctors, hospitals and pharmaceutical companies only make money when we are in bad health. If we could instead prevent illness and disease, it would turn the entire medical system on its head and increase the quality of our lives. The good news is that technology is on its way to letting us do this.

Future Health Index

The Future Health Index (FHI) is a research-based platform designed to help determine the readiness of countries to address global health challenges and build sustainable, fit-for-purpose national health systems.

The Medical Futurist

The Medical Futurist team brings you the most exciting news about health technologies and provides context about digital health to help patients, physicians, and policy-makers to get the most out of technological changes.

Nature.com

Modern medicine is affording people longer and healthier lives. But researchers want to take improvements in health even further. With advances in gene editing, technology to overcome paralysis and efforts to address high drug costs, the future of medicine is bright.

Scientific American

How emerging diseases in a changing world jeopardize public health, and what can be done

TED

Take this tour of medicine's future with some of the trailblazing doctors charting its course. Once you've seen a transplantable human kidney created from a 3D printer, almost anything is imaginable ...