7 Things To Expect From AI In Healthcare This Year – The Medical Futurist Newsletter

Revolution and consolidation I'm honored to be selected for the [LinkedIn Top Voices program](. I really enjoy sharing daily context and commentary on exciting and important digital health and AI news. I hope you benefit from them in your daily jobs. I also analyzed what we can expect from 2024 regarding AI and generative AI in healthcare. Plus we have shared a few gems such as the omnidirectional treadmill made by Disney to be used in elderly homes. I hope you will find the newsletter useful! Best regards, Berci Bertalan Meskó, PhD The Medical Futurist [7 THINGS TO EXPECT FROM AI IN HEALTHCARE THIS YEAR]( --------------------------------------------------------------- This year will bring broader integration of AI into various aspects of healthcare, from patient care to diagnostics, fundamentally changing how healthcare services are delivered and accessed. This year promises to be a blend of consolidation and revolution. Some trends we’ve previously identified are beginning to solidify and integrate into the fabric of healthcare systems, while others are just starting to unfold. [READ MORE]( WHY DO I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT? Patients can expect an influx of generative AI-based tools specifically designed for them, assisting all facets of their health. [WHAT WILL BLOOD TESTING LOOK LIKE IN THE NEAR FUTURE?]( --------------------------------------------------------------- The process of blood drawing is evolving rapidly with technologies like DIY blood draw kits and blood-drawing robots, which promise to make the procedure more efficient while reducing the workload on medical staff. This analysis aims to explore how this universally recognized procedure has evolved recently and how it is expected to change in the next 5-10 years, especially in the context of digital health. Let’s take a look at each element of the traditional process and see if/how it changes. [READ MORE]( WHY DO I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT? We'll see changes in several segments of the process, and while laboratories won’t disappear, their roles will be different. [WELCOME TO THE DIGITAL HEALTH ERA: A HANDS-ON COURSE DESIGNED FOR YOU]( --------------------------------------------------------------- Digital health, when used properly, helps patients and healthcare professionals alike. It assists medical work and can lower our workloads, meanwhile, improve patient outcomes, patient experience, and knowledge. If you are not sure, how to make the most of this technological (and cultural!) transformation, come, join this course. Just come as you are, no preliminary knowledge is needed. [ENROLL HERE]( [DISNEY'S ‘HOLOTILE’ FLOOR TECHNOLOGY FOR OMNIDIRECTIONAL VR EXPERIENCES]( --------------------------------------------------------------- Walt Disney Imagineering just unveiled the HoloTile floor which is said to be the world's first “multi-person, omnidirectional, modular, expandable, treadmill floor”. I can see it being used in elderly care homes to make physical activity more fun and engaging for the residents there. They could walk around in their "old" neighborhood. It could also be a game changer for those companies developing VR-based therapies that involve moving around. [READ MORE]( WHY IT'S IMPORTANT? It might hold potential for rehabilitation and senior care, allowing new depths of VR experiences. [NUANCE AI COPILOT NOW FULLY EMBEDDED IN EPIC EHR]( --------------------------------------------------------------- Not so long ago, Microsoft acquired Nuance Communications, then Nuance announced that they would test using generative AI in their clinical documentation systems. Now it's fully embedded in Epic's EHR systems, good news for physicians using that! Clinicians reported a significant reduction in administrative burden, 70% said the AI tool embedded in the EHR reduced feelings of burnout, it cut time spent on clinical documentation by 50%, they also reported an increase in the number of patients they are able to see per day. [READ MORE]( WHY IT'S IMPORTANT? This is a good example of how to deploy generative AI responsibly into a healthcare IT system. [DOCTOR USES APPLE WATCH TO HELP RYANAIR PASSENGER]( --------------------------------------------------------------- A woman, in her 70s, experienced shortness of breath on a recent flight, and the cabin crew asked for help from a physician aboard. The doctor asked for an Apple Watch to assess the elderly woman's oxygen saturation. This allowed him to monitor and maintain the woman's saturation levels until they safely landed in Italy about an hour later. The patient, he said, recovered quickly and she was handed over to medical staff, walking off the flight with their assistance." [READ MORE]( WHY DO I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT? What could be the lesson here? To have a small bag of digital health devices and portable diagnostic tools on board. [WATCH A DEAF CHILD REGAIN HEARING AFTER A BREAKTHROUGH GENE THERAPY]( --------------------------------------------------------------- In China, kids with a type of hereditary deafness received an experimental gene therapy injected into one of their ears and started hearing for the first time ever (they went from not hearing anything under 95 decibels to perceiving sounds of around 45 decibels). "The treatment the children received works by delivering a working version of the otoferlin gene to the inner ear. The cells of the inner ear then read this gene and produce the protein." [READ MORE]( WHY DO I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT? Good to see such promising initiatives from the realm of gene therapies. 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