Search Tag: Future
2020 08 Jan
The Canadian government has said a ‘doomsday’ scenario where automation would make half of Canadian jobs redundant as ‘overstated’. However, top government officials have said that there could be challenges in some parts of the economy following a briefing last summer that, over the next 15 to 20 years, 11% of jobs in Canada could...Read more
2017 16 Oct
Gradually, computerised health data is being implemented in hospitals or in doctor communities. Computerisation radically changes accessibility moving away from the comfort zone linked to paper and creating a new space for information systems. It thus reaches a New World literally and figuratively. One could compare the data ‘revolution’...Read more
2016 25 Aug
Already, healthcare is being outsourced to the home in a bid to encourage more patient involvement in wellbeing and to develop centres of health expertise in place of multi-bed hospitals. The Medical Futurist, Bertalan Meskó reflects on how the future of home healthcare could evolve. The Home and Future Healthcare The biggest part...Read more
2016 25 Aug
Gamification is on the rise right now as a powerful tool to change behaviour - not only in healthcare but in many fields, such as education and business. However it can be seen and experienced in all its glory in healthcare, and I believe it will be crucial for the very near future. First of all, what is gamification? A crystallised definition...Read more
2016 29 Feb
Prof. Jean-Louis Vincent highlights integration and personalisation as key themes in the future of intensive care medicine, writing in Critical Care Medicine , the journal of the Society of Critical Care Medicine. “We must push critical care medicine to its limits by incorporating new technology, collaborating with other hospital departments, limiting...Read more
2015 24 Nov
Packed plenary sessions at the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) annual meeting attest to the thought-provoking and engaging array of speakers. Sunday 29 November: 08:30-10.15, Arie Crown Theater Get to the Arie Crown Theater early to hear RSNA President, Ronald Arenson , give the President’s Address: Going Boldly into Radiology's Technological...Read more
2014 06 Oct
The future, value and direction of radiology was the focus of the Management in Radiology meeting in Bologna last week. Chairman Peter Mildenberger (pictured, right) welcomed delegates to the two day congress, which featured a wide-ranging programme looking at strategy, globalisation, social media, communication and imaging biobanks. A roster of distinguished...Read more