An Unprecedented Worldwide Co-Operation In The World Of Technology To Fight COVID-19 - The Medical Futurist Newsletter
A weekly update about how the world of tech helps fight the coronavirus pandemic; and more stories in this week's newsletter! We hope you will find it useful!
Earlier this month, the CEO of an Italian 3D-printing startup learned that a hospital near the center of the coronavirus outbreak in Italy was running short on a small but crucial component: the valves that connect respirators to oxygen masks.
Similar efforts have popped up around the world. In Liverpool, New York, Isaac Budmen and Stephanie Keefe were printing more than 300 face shields for workers at a coronavirus test site in Syracuse this week, according to The Post-Standard of Syracuse. Budmen and Keefe, who run a business, Budmen Industries, selling custom 3D printers out of their home, turned to a fleet of 16 3D printers in their basement.
Startup Health compiled a list of over 15 helpers. These founders have opened up their platforms to be used for free through the duration of the coronavirus outbreak. They are shining examples of how a community, banded together under the same goal — in their case, to improve the health and wellbeing of everyone on the planet — can quickly pivot to affect positive change.
Today, let’s talk about some of the front-line workers at Facebook and Google working on the pandemic: the content moderators who keep the site running day in and day out. Like most stories about content moderators, it’s a tale about difficult tradeoffs. And actions taken over the past few days by Facebook and YouTube will have significant implications for the future of the business.
We don't speak about washing your hands (not a novelty) or face masks (more or less useless) here. Instead, here are 5 ways how innovative technologies already make a difference - let's see how these shift the concept of epidemics completely!
With about 15% of COVID-19 patients suffering from severe disease and hospitals being overwhelmed, treatments are desperately needed. So rather than coming up with compounds from scratch that may take years to develop and test, researchers and public health agencies are looking to repurpose drugs already approved for other diseases and known to be largely safe.
Some say technology will replace 80% of doctors in the future. I disagree. Instead, technology will finally allow doctors to focus on what makes them good physicians: treating patients and innovating, while automation does the repetitive part of the work. While every medical specialty will benefit from digital health, some will especially thrive thanks to these innovations. Here, we list the top medical specialties with the biggest potential for development in the future.
