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Jul 7, 2021 · In this contribution, we draw on historical examples and the work of historians of medicine to highlight how all technological devices are ‘expressions of medical change’ (Timmermann and Anderson 2006, 1), and to show how past analogue objects shaped physician-patient relationships in ways that remain relevant today.
- Vanessa Rampton, Maria Böhmer, Anita Winkler
- 2021
Over the next few decades, the practice of medicine will become increasingly virtual, aided by digital technologies like artificial intelligence, telehealth, and wearable devices. Harvard Medical School professor Jagmeet Singh is witnessing many of these changes firsthand.
Physicians moved on from those early scalpels to stethoscopes, X-rays, and MRIs, the better to understand the workings of the human body. With these new understandings has come translational research that transfers findings from the lab into new, more effective treatments and medicines.
Digital technology serves as the nervous system for the learning health system and accelerates the identification and elimination of wide-scale disparities in individual, local, regional, and global health care.
Jul 8, 2021 · Advancements in technology are revolutionizing the healthcare system to become more proactive, personalized and convenient than ever before.
Nov 1, 2012 · In medicine, technological innovation has several and complex dimensions and technological change in pharmaceuticals is different from the field of medical devices, as well as dynamics of innovations in therapeutics are different from diagnostics.
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Jan 24, 2023 · Technology- or artificial-intelligence-enabled diagnostics will amplify this role for physicians, requiring us to triage and deflect unnecessary downstream testing: ‘physician 2.0’, the new...
