CIFS Health

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

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November 24, 2021

Concepts / Concepts & Background

The 10/90 Gap: Aim to Reverse

During the 1990s the Global Forum for Health Research was set up by the WHO Ad Hoc Committee on Health Research for the purpose of correcting the…

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November 15, 2021

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

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