Artificial Intelligence: The Future for Diabetes Care
The purpose of this review is to provide an overview of the scope and utility of AI in the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of diabetes.
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On the Coronavirus (COVID-19) Outbreak and the Smart City Network: Universal Data Sharing Standards Coupled with Artificial Intelligence (AI) to Benefit Urban Health Monitoring and Management
This perspective paper, written one month after detection and during the outbreak, surveys the virus outbreak from an urban standpoint and advances how smart city networks should work towards enhancing standardization protocols for increased data sharing in the event of outbreaks or disasters, leading to better global understanding and management of the same.
Read More.Use of Artificial Intelligence for Improving Patient Flow and Healthcare Delivery
In this review, we will provide an overview of applications of AI in improving patient flow to the hospital and patient transfer within a hospital.
Read More.Artificial intelligence can categorise cancer risk of lung nodules
A study published in American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine indicates that an artificial intelligence strategy can correctly assess and categorise these indeterminate pulmonary nodules (IPNs).
Read More.Predictions for Telehealth in 2020: Will This be the Takeoff Year?
Experts offer their shared and unique predictions on the next big thing(s) in telehealth in 2020.
Read More.Implementation Considerations for Blockchain in Healthcare Institutions
This article aims to provide a primer on blockchain technology and implementation considerations for blockchain at healthcare institutions.
Read More.‘Fit-for-purpose?’ – challenges and opportunities for applications of blockchain technology in the future of healthcare
In the health sector, blockchain is being aggressively explored by various stakeholders to optimize business processes, lower costs, improve patient outcomes, enhance compliance, and enable better use of healthcare-related data. However, critical in assessing whether blockchain can fulfill the hype of a technology characterized as ‘revolutionary’ and ‘disruptive’, is the need to ensure that blockchain design elements consider actual healthcare needs from the diverse perspectives of consumers, patients, providers, and regulators. In addition, answering the real needs of healthcare stakeholders, blockchain approaches must also be responsive to the unique challenges faced in healthcare compared to other sectors of the economy. In this sense, ensuring that a health blockchain is ‘fit-for-purpose’ is pivotal. This concept forms the basis for this article, where we share views from a multidisciplinary group of practitioners at the forefront of blockchain conceptualization, development, and deployment.
Read More.Top 10 Blockchain Predictions for the (Near) Future of Healthcare
Blockchain in Healthcare Today (BHTY) asked the world’s blockchain in healthcare experts to share their insights. Here, our internationally-renowned BHTY peer-review board discusses their major predictions.
Read More.The Impact of Blockchain on Medical Tourism
In this conceptual paper, we investigate the potential benefits of Blockchain technology to address some of the open questions in medical tourism.
Read More.The Future of Healthcare Facilities: How Technology and Medical Advances May Shape Hospitals of the Future
In this review article, we aim to depict how healthcare facilities may look in the near future from an architectural design point of view. For this purpose, we review newly introduced technology and medical advances in the field of healthcare, such as artificial intelligence (AI), robotic surgery, 3D printing, and information technology (IT), and suggest how those advances may affect the architectural design of future healthcare facilities.
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