By Bertalan Meskó
A few brief years in the past, it's going to were tough to visualize that exoskeletons might permit paralyzed humans to stroll back; that billions of individuals might depend on social media for info; and that the supercomputer Watson will be a key participant in scientific decision-making. possibly greater than in the other box, know-how has remodeled medication and healthcare in ways in which a trifling decade in the past may have gave the impression of natural technological know-how fiction.
From his specific vantage as a informed health practitioner, researcher, and scientific futurist, Dr. Bertalan Mesko examines those advancements and the numerous extra down the pipeline. His goal is to evaluate how the hand of know-how can proceed to supply the dose of humanity that's the most important to potent healthcare. The consultant to the way forward for medication: know-how and the Human Touch is his incisive, illuminating roundup of the applied sciences and traits that may form the way forward for medication.
Patients, doctors, and any healthcare stakeholder will locate an eye fixed establishing, reassuring roadmap to tomorrow’s power during this available and fact-based booklet. via getting ready for the inevitable waves of swap, you may make knowledgeable judgements approximately how know-how will form your personal wellbeing and fitness.
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The grandmother of Mike Scanlon, Co–Founder of Lumosity, was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease, and he saw how devastating it was. While a neuroscience PhD candidate at Stanford University, he came across advancements in brain research that never made it out of academic settings. He wanted to make those results and methods available for the general public. That was when Lumosity was born. By playing games online every single day, our short– and long–term memory, flexibility, attention, and focus can be improved.
With respect to the obstacles that health–related start–ups face in promoting more access for patients, he thinks the Western model is broken. “The stakes are obviously very high in healthcare; you are potentially ‘playing’ with people’s lives when utilizing new technologies. But trying to reform and change healthcare by doing exactly what we are already doing, and trying to jam this reform into existing and broken models of delivering care, and expecting better health outcomes and more efficiencies is the epitome of insanity.
Gamification expert and author of The Gamification Revolution, Gabe Zichermann, said that fundamentally people are bad at deferring pleasure now for future gain and avoidance of pain. Games are designed to help raise people’s engagement in a way that is more powerful than what we have seen before. Even, companies tend to realize the power of gamification and use it in keeping their employees healthy. According to Gartner, an information technology research and advisory company, more than 70% of the world’s largest 2,000 companies are expected to have deployed at least one gamified application by the end of 2014.