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A list of TR articles related to the emergence of e-medicine.
“Antimicrobial resistance poses a catastrophic threat,” said Davies. “If we don’t act now, any one of us could go into hospital in 20 years for minor surgery and die because of an ordinary infection that can’t be treated by antibiotics. And routine operations like hip replacements or organ transplants could be deadly because of the risk of infection.
A smartphone app that uses a phone’s camera to analyse urine and check for a range of medical conditions has been shown off at the TED (Technology, Education and Design) conference in Los Angeles.
With a blazing speed cheap new individually based tools for self diagnosis are appearing everywhere. Many of them are using the capability of smart phones like the iPhone and is distributed globally through the Appstore. Health care is up for a perfect storm here, and it seems to be sooner than many of the people with that sector thinks.
MIT Builds An Open-Source Platform For Your Body | Fast Company
MIT Media Lab’s 11-day health care hackathon pulled students and big companies together with a common goal: Healing a broken industry.
Siberian temperatures. Eleven grueling days, navigating rough terrain. Six teams, matched for talent, competing for glory at the end. The Iditarod? Nah, just the annual MIT Health and Wellness Hackathon.
This isn’t your average social app-fest. The goal is to jump-start an open source platform where apps that track all different aspects of your bodily health can exchange information. It’s a Sisyphean task, since most digital health solutions today are trapped in silos, but the organizers believe they can change that by enfranchising big companies instead of trying to disrupt them.
- The growing role of frontline health workers
- The need for more community health workers
- The rebirth of family planning
- Helping even more children to live longer
- AIDS: getting to zero
- The continuing fight against malaria
- Eradicating polio
- The global burden of non-communicable diseases
- Safety for health workers during conflicts
- Mobile health and new technologies
Doctors regrow breasts in cancer sufferer
In a medical breakthrough, Australian surgeons have managed to regrow breast tissue for women who have had cancer surgery.
They say in one patient, breast tissue was successfully grown from her own fat cells.
Full Story: ABC
Craig Venter Imagines a World with Printable Life Forms
Craig Venter imagines a future where you can download software, print a vaccine, inject it, and presto! Contagion averted.
“It’s a 3-D printer for DNA, a 3-D printer for life,” Venter said here today at the inaugural Wired Health Conference in New York City.
The geneticist and his team of scientists are already testing out a version of his digital biological converter, or “teleporter.”
Full Story: Wired
A handful of leaders in health data suggest that data-driven personalized health approaches could achieve mainstream adoption in five years, with some saying valuable but intermittent work could happen even sooner.
From gadgets that monitor our activity and vital signs, to startups that let us explore our own DNA - there are more technologies than ever for collecting and analyzing personal health data.
For now, the applications of personal health data are mostly the stuff of “Quantified Self” hobbyists and experimental research. But some say it may not be too long before personal health data becomes a powerful part of the mainstream clinical experience.
At the Health 2.0 conference in San Francisco on Wednesday, David Ewing Duncan, a journalist and author of “When I’m 164,” asked a panel of health data leaders when data-driven personalized health might reach “escape velocity”.
Source: smarterplanet
Gray Boom + Go East = Medical Tourism
Sharply rising medical costs in the U.S. will trigger a boom in medical tourism, in particular for anti-ageing treatments and elective surgery.Gray Boom + Era of Uncertainty + Go East! + Digitize Me = Telemedicine
Although doctor office visits will never disappear, telemedicine may become increasingly common over the next few decades. Also, there may be a sharp rise in home-heal monitoring as a temporary alternative to assisted living communities. August 29, 2012 at 09:42AM
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