Bertalan Mesko is The Medical Futurist and director of The Medical Futurist Institute. He is the author of The Guide to the Future of Medicine and My Health: Upgraded: Revolutionary Technologies To Bring A Healthier Future.

Voice to text solutions could turn EHR-burdened medical professionals into doctors again

Health Technology
November 25, 2019

Just imagine the following: your assistant invites in Ms. Nichols, who has a migraine, a bad cough, and feels nauseated. You sit down, start talking about the symptoms, see her throat, measure her temperature, pulse rate, inquire more about the headache. In the end, you set up a diagnosis, you write a prescription for some meds, send the patient for some further exams due to the migraine, but ensure her …

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Voice to text solutions could turn EHR-burdened medical professionals into doctors again

Innovative technologies could save millions of lives in the developing world

Health Technology
June 27, 2016

Imagine two babies being born at the exact same time: a little girl in Sweden and a baby boy in Mozambique. What are their chances for a long, healthy life?

In the Scandinavian country of the easily assemblable IKEA furniture and the most secure car in the world, life expectancy in 2015 reached 81.98 years, while in the South African Mozambique with 11.64 billion dollar …

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Innovative technologies could save millions of lives in the developing world

These are the technologies that can help achieve the cancer moonshot

Health Technology
February 22, 2016

In his State of the Union address in 2016, President Obama pledged a new national effort to find a cure for cancer. This is the cancer “moonshot.” Last year, he announced the launch of the Precision Medicine Initiative — a bold new research effort to revolutionize how we improve health and treat disease. These two strategies together hold the promise of curing cancer or, at least, transforming it …

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These are the technologies that can help achieve the cancer moonshot