AI has recently become part of every step in the patient journey from the living room to the hospital.
I mapped out how AI can already support patients at home, on the road, and in the clinic (from symptom checking and wearable sensors to AI scribes, chatbots, and radiology scan analysis).
This infographic shows 4 key moments where AI can already enhance care, empower patients, and assist healthcare professionals today.
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I just had a great discussion with Guillaume Villard on the Amplifiz Podcast.
We talked about the pharmaceutical industry:
1) their current digital maturity & use of AI
2) how physician perceive their omnichannel outreach
3) how the partnership with physicians may evolve in the future
4) the importance of patient design
5) how organizations and leadership can help drive the AI revolution
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Wearables are quietly becoming the world’s biggest health experiment!
This new infographic shows the estimated global number of wearable users by health parameter in 2025 — and the scale is staggering.
💓 Heart rate & 🦶 steps: 600–1000 million people each
😴 Sleep tracking: 300–500 million
🔥 Calories & ⚡ activity: 200–400 million
🫁 Blood oxygen, HRV, breathing, temperature and more are rapidly growing too.
A decade ago, wearables were niche gadgets counting steps on our belts. Today, they are personal health laboratories, producing massive real-world health datasets.
But this raises crucial questions:
How can we make it medically reliable?
How do we ensure equitable access so everyone can benefit from the future of digital health?
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Making predictions implies that only one future exists. While in reality, there are multiple futures ahead of us and we have a direct impact on them.
But still, people ask me to make them as a professional futurist.
Here are 8 transformative predictions for healthcare’s near future, driven by technology and evolving knowledge.
What would you add?
Full article: medicalfuturist.com/8-practical-predictions-for-th…
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If I were a hospital manager, I'd actively look for tasks that are repetitive and/or data-based, thus the healthcare professionals doing those tasks are wasting their time.
This is one perspective that can help seek out how AI could contribute to healthcare in practice.
If you have a repetitive and data-based task in your own job, could you please share it so we can discuss whether that task is prone to automation?
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Have you ever seen a vein finder?
Here is Aimvein Pro 3.0 that can show my veins!
How amazing would it be to use such vein finders during blood tests? Only if its cost could get lower...
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What will be the primary and secondary consequences if an ambulance fleet becomes fully AI-controlled?
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