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“A clinic in Bolivia 140 kilometers from the nearest city prints out splints and prostheses when supplies are low. The cost per piece runs about 2 cents for the plastic. This might allow developing nations to circumvent having to import large numbers of supplies. Already, 3D printing is occurring in underdeveloped areas. “Not Impossible Labs” based in Venice, California took 3D printers to Sudan where the chaos of war has left many people with amputated limbs. The organization’s founder, Mick Ebeling, trained locals how to operate the machinery, create patient–specific limbs, and fit these new, very inexpensive prosthetics.”
― Bertalan Mesko, The Guide to the Future of Medicine (2022 Edition): Technology AND The Human Touch

“Participatory Medicine is a model of cooperative health care that seeks to achieve active involvement by patients, professionals, caregivers, and others across the continuum of care on all issues related to an individual’s health. Participatory medicine is an ethical approach to care that also holds promise to improve outcomes, reduce medical errors, increase patient satisfaction and improve the cost of care.”
― Bertalan Mesko, The Guide to the Future of Medicine (2022 Edition): Technology AND The Human Touch

“Being born without a limb or losing one in an accident will soon not be a major disadvantage. As technology improves at a fast rate, these may even augment normal human capabilities. The real question facing us is not whether technology will be able to help such patients, but how to persuade healthy people in the near future not to change their own limbs to smart, state–of–the–art prosthetics.”
― Bertalan Mesko, The Guide to the Future of Medicine (2022 Edition): Technology AND The Human Touch

“I think I might tell my children in 10 years that the early 2010s was a barbaric era”
― Bertalan Mesko, The Guide to the Future of Medicine (2022 Edition): Technology AND The Human Touch

“Medical education has to make sure that it trains good medical professionals who can secondarily deal with technology.”
― Bertalan Mesko, The Guide to the Future of Medicine (2022 Edition): Technology AND The Human Touch

“Imagine a retinal chip giving you perfect eye sight or the ability to see in the dark; a cochlear implant giving you perfect hearing; a memory chip giving you almost limitless memory. Such brain implants will not be the first neuroprosthetics given that those have been around commercially for three decades. Examples include cochlear implants, and now retinal implants which were first approved by the FDA in 2013. Implants”
― Bertalan Mesko, The Guide to the Future of Medicine (2022 Edition): Technology AND The Human Touch

“Twitter”
― Bertalan Mesko, The Guide to the Future of Medicine (2022 Edition): Technology AND The Human Touch

“Regulation of medical apps that does not limit their capabilities would have benefits for all stakeholders.   The Labonfoil device analyzing smart cards.”
― Bertalan Mesko, The Guide to the Future of Medicine (2022 Edition): Technology AND The Human Touch

“Evidence based medicine is meant to ensure that quality treatment options are chosen and diagnosis is based on empirical evidence rather than personal assumptions. But this area adapts to changes more slowly than other industries do. For example, after the driverless car developed by Google ran for 1 million miles without incident, car manufacturers such as Volvo announced the inclusion of such algorithms in its future models. For obvious reasons things are a bit slower in healthcare. But soon an ever–increasing gap is going to be too big to cope with.”
― Bertalan Mesko, The Guide to the Future of Medicine (2022 Edition): Technology AND The Human Touch

“usually think that technology and the human touch are incompatible.”
― Bertalan Mesko, The Guide to the Future of Medicine (2022 Edition): Technology AND The Human Touch

“Now smartphones track health parameters and record electrocardiograms (ECG).”
― Bertalan Mesko, The Guide to the Future of Medicine (2022 Edition): Technology AND The Human Touch

“mutual.”
― Bertalan Mesko, The Guide to the Future of Medicine (2022 Edition): Technology AND The Human Touch

“In 2013, 96% of all connected wearable devices were activity trackers, 3% were smartwatches, and 1% were smart glasses. Tellingly, 82% of users believe that wearable tech has enhanced their lives. By 2017, 64 million shipments of such devices are expected (8 times larger than in 2012). Global spending on wearable technology is estimated to be $19 billion by 2018.”
― Bertalan Mesko, The Guide to the Future of Medicine (2022 Edition): Technology AND The Human Touch

“When I asked him about the key for solving medical/scientific problems that seem too futuristic now, his response was direct and on the spot: “Believing that you can.”
― Bertalan Mesko, The Guide to the Future of Medicine (2022 Edition): Technology AND The Human Touch

“Even though I passionately love technology as a geek, I know it will certainly not solve the problems that healthcare is facing now. It can facilitate healthcare renovation by providing powerful tools, data, and solutions, but patients need emotional attention and empathy from their caregivers. The lack of connectivity among people and healthcare institutions is a basic problem we struggle with worldwide.”
― Bertalan Mesko, The Guide to the Future of Medicine (2022 Edition): Technology AND The Human Touch

“He is famous for saying that these days he prescribes a lot more applications than medications to his patients.”
― Bertalan Mesko, The Guide to the Future of Medicine (2022 Edition): Technology AND The Human Touch

“• Brain Computer Interface Race: Contestants will be equipped with brain–computer interfaces that will enable them to control an avatar in a racing game played on computers. • Functional Electrical Stimulation Bike Race: Contestants with complete spinal cord injuries will be equipped with Functional Electrical Stimulation devices, which will enable them to perform pedaling movements on a cycling device that drives them on a circular course. • Leg Prosthetics Race: It will involve an obstacle course featuring slopes, steps, uneven surfaces, and straight sprints. • Powered Exoskeleton Race: Contestants with complete thoracic or lumbar spinal cord injuries will be equipped with actuated exoskeletal devices, which will enable them to walk along a particular race course. • Powered Wheelchair Race: A similar obstacle course featuring a variety of surfaces and environments. • Arm Prosthetics Race: Pilots with forearm or upper arm amputations will be equipped with actuated exoprosthetic devices and will have to successfully complete two hand–arm task courses as quickly as possible.”
― Bertalan Mesko, The Guide to the Future of Medicine (2022 Edition): Technology AND The Human Touch

“On the 8th of October in 2016, Zurich, Switzerland will host the first championship sports event under the name Cybathlon for parathletes using high–tech prostheses, exoskeletons, and other robotic and assistive devices. This”
― Bertalan Mesko, The Guide to the Future of Medicine (2022 Edition): Technology AND The Human Touch

“The human touch is there, it has worked for long, sitting by the patient’s bedside and trying to lift their spirits. Although with the advances of human genomics, parts of the process have become automated, medical professionals cannot practice the way they used to, it is no longer the same human contact that we had before. Patients usually get interested in new technologies first; therefore there is a constant request that physicians start using them. Medical professionals don’t have to get detailed training about how magnetic resonance imaging works, they just need to know why it works.”
― Bertalan Mesko, The Guide to the Future of Medicine (2022 Edition): Technology AND The Human Touch

“The ultimate goal of gathering big data in electronic medical records (EMR) ¬managed by professionals, and personal health records (PHR) updated by patients is creating smart alerts in natural language. That is, the system would understand the actual meaning of words and expressions in the records, thereby making it simpler to intervene in a patient’s affairs when needed.”
― Bertalan Mesko, The Guide to the Future of Medicine (2022 Edition): Technology AND The Human Touch

“provide a good care for patients.”
― Bertalan Mesko, The Guide to the Future of Medicine (2022 Edition): Technology AND The Human Touch

“a man in California who can track whether his father with Alzheimer’s disease, who lives in a nursing home in the United Kingdom, has taken his medication. He can also see how his father sleeps at night.”
― Bertalan Mesko, The Guide to the Future of Medicine (2022 Edition): Technology AND The Human Touch

“crowdsource the very best of medical research in a customized way for them. Instead of manually typing data via keyboard, let’s speed up the process and make it more interactive through augmented reality. Doing that, the doctor can look the patient in the eye and engage their problems in a conversational manner.”
― Bertalan Mesko, The Guide to the Future of Medicine (2022 Edition): Technology AND The Human Touch

“My mission is to prove them wrong.”
― Bertalan Mesko, The Guide to the Future of Medicine (2022 Edition): Technology AND The Human Touch

“that the rapidly advancing changes to healthcare pose a serious threat to the human touch, the so–called art of medicine.”
― Bertalan Mesko, The Guide to the Future of Medicine (2022 Edition): Technology AND The Human Touch

“surveillance”
― Bertalan Mesko, The Guide to the Future of Medicine (2022 Edition): Technology AND The Human Touch

“He also described how hospitals could become the new health start–up incubators. Doctors, nurses, medical specialists, and administrators will continue to push the “bring your own device” boundaries and will work with others to build mobile tech solutions that get around outdated technologies used in hospitals.”
― Bertalan Mesko, The Guide to the Future of Medicine (2022 Edition): Technology AND The Human Touch

“relationship based on trust, it is also possible to employ increasingly safe technologies”
― Bertalan Mesko, The Guide to the Future of Medicine (2022 Edition): Technology AND The Human Touch

“Stanford medical doctor, Dr. Abraham Verghese, started using Google Glass because he can make videos of patient examination for medical students to watch from his own point of view.”
― Bertalan Mesko, The Guide to the Future of Medicine (2022 Edition): Technology AND The Human Touch

“Eighteen years later I work and sometimes seem to live online in order to experience a world seemingly without limitations.”
― Bertalan Mesko, The Guide to the Future of Medicine (2022 Edition): Technology AND The Human Touch