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...