Medical Futurist May 12, 2020

What if the COVID-19 pandemic had been forecasted months in advance? And hospitals didn’t experience shortages thanks to the help of an A.I. helping administrators better manage their resources when facing such a virulent disease? What if telemedicine was the norm and unnecessary doctor-patient visits were eliminated, reducing transmission risks and helping with containing the virus faster and easier? What if patients could check if they’ve contracted the disease with at-home tests delivered via medical drones and self-isolate if they are positive?

If these scenarios sound too good to be true, it’s because they are. They depict how a pandemic at the scale of COVID-19 would play out in a digital health utopia: one where the cultural transformation that we...

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Topics: AI (Artificial Intelligence), Digital Health, Govt Agencies, Health IT, Healthcare System, mHealth, Patient / Consumer, Provider, Public Health / COVID, Technology, Telehealth
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