Future EHRs: Roles and Functionalities
Until recently, an electronic health record (EHR) has been a digital version of a patient’s paper chart. However EHR solutions provide much richer functions today. What will the future bring?
Value Based Healthcare: Challenges, Trends and Future
The central question is how to measure value of health outcomes. Though no objective assessment is possible now, in the future value based healthcare may become a norm
Healthcare Reimbursement: Promising Present and Possible Futures
The way that providers are reimbursed is significant because it incentivises what care they provide and how
Humans vs Machines: How We Will Be Treated in the Future
Spoiler: expect sending thoughts, human enhancement, neural healthcare, virtual health twins
Interoperability in healthcare: are global standards achievable?
Future health depends upon mutual understanding and collaborations of healthcare IT systems. What is required for the global interoperability?
Future Healthcare IDs: Humans as Data Repositories
The current id numbers will be complemented with a host of additional big data. It will provide new rich functionality but will also pose new challenges to centralised id systems
Secondary Use of Health Data: Aggregation to Improve Policies
The benefits to secondary use of health data are wide, but some challenges to the development of advanced data ecosystems remain.
Social Determinants of Health: How Others Effect Your Wellbeing
How does society effect our health? Social determinants of health (SDoHs) differ between five domains, from economic stability to community context. The main of concepts in SDoHs explained
From Tissue Engineering to Bioprinting Organs: It’s Not the Future, It’s Now
Human cells are seeded onto collagen or biodegradable polymers and stimulated to grow. They are then used to 3D-print organs. Sounds sci-fi? It was already approved in the USA and in the EU
Equality vs Equity in Healthcare: Both Are Important
These concepts are often mixed. What do they mean in the context of modern healthcare, access to medical services, and the ongoing health disparities
Nanobiology and Nanodiagnostics Have Arrived
Nanodrugs that we may expect soon are made of nanomaterials that interact with biological structures on nano dimensions inside us
Universal Health Coverage: Many Think They Got It, But Few Have
Universal health coverage is cornerstone of the Sustainable Development Goals – but how can we achieve it?
Public Health for Sustainable Development: Communicating to Strengthen Resilience
Three levels of public health in a society explained: from existential threats to disease prevention
Health Behavior: Eleven Theories Reviewed
Theories behind health changes will promote adherence and direct the research towards actions that work