Predictive Genomics: Harnessing Genetic Data
Predictive genomics allows using genetic data to help predict common disease risks and drug responses. However, dystopian visions of dividing between ‘good genes’ and ‘bad genes’ are expected to enter future public debates
Augmented Reality in Healthcare: From Operating Rooms to Smartphones
AR is already in dentist clinics, nursing, medical imaging and education, pediatrics, remote surgeries. In the future, AR is likely to be taken out of operating rooms onto smartphones. Patients will see how time and unhealthy lifestyles may affect their bodies
Augmented Reality in Healthcare: Doctors to Gain Superhuman Powers
The ability to look into your bones without invasive operations, the ability to peer back in time. Health data from flat screens onto and into a patient’s body
Digital Health Organisations Who Operate in Europe
Robust organisations comprise a special feature of the European digital health landscape, not known elsewhere. All strong global and pan-European organisations work here
Challenges of NFTs in Healthcare: What Will Future Healthcare NFTs Look Like
The infancy of non-fungible tokens reflects in security breaches and privacy concerns, in legal, blockchain related and environmental issues, in lack of awareness. Easy to operate and to understand, governed and regulated, NFTs shall be first adopted by EHR vendors and manufacturers of medical devices, then by the public
Future Focus Areas in European Digital Health
proactive policies, automated compliance, shift of health data ownership to patients, action-based healthcare services by European digital health platforms, pan-European framework for approval of digital therapeutics, NLP-enabled EU-interoperable electronic health records, awareness and motivation in telemedicine, massive adoption of FARE data principles, remedies to black box perception and rewards for digital health literacy, standard AI for clinical support systems
Future of Patient Engagement: From Digital to Smart
from one way communication to rich data driven interactions with focus on social determinants of health and active closing of knowledge gap
European Health Data Space Explained
data space is about mapping and matching, here the EU will open datasets, invest EUR2B in the infrastructure, adopt Code of Conduct, and pass heaælth sector specific laws. All explained in this brief read
Robotics in Healthcare: Possible Futures
surgical robots, therapeutic robots, social robots, what will they be able to in future healthcare? Will we accept it?
Open Source in Healthcare: Benefits, Challenges of Shared Healthcare Platforms
no domination, open to customisation, interoperability due to wide collaboration in development vs local capacity, lack of guidelines, maintenance issues. Share infrastructure in healthcare. Health layers in an open source solution
Blockchain in Healthcare: Ethical Considerations
ethical design for blockchain in healthcare, scenario-based ethical dilemmas, the right to be forgotten, and algocracy, the power of algorithms upon us
Future of Interoperability in Healthcare
holistic digitalisation of healthcare will lead to liberation of health data. Hence, we, patients, will be responsible
Interoperability in Healthcare: Benefits and Challenges
Improved patient care, better public health data, fewer errors vs organisational restrictions on data sharing, low standartisation, issues with consent and digital literacy
European Digital Health in Brief: Background, Landscape, Stakeholders
How do Europeans understand digital health? How it came about and developed, where are we now and what to expect. Major stakholders of the European digital health and startups