Yogesh MalikFuture is already here, it is just unevenly distributed. Technology Evangelist and Digital FuturistSep 5 · 4 min read

Silicon Valley and The Search For Immortality — The Future Of Healthcare

Digital Pills, Sensors, and Big DataSuccess of healthcare will depend on the quality and quality of usable data.

Digital pills and sensors in your body will communicate with portable heathdevice and your mobile phone to collect critical health data from your body.

Data Will Make You Live Longer — #HealthTech

Your wearable or smart phone will alert you in case if you need to act — andyour health care center and doctor will get automatically notified

Doctors, hospitals & machines will be on the same page, accessing the rightinformation — and all that will save lives, and you will live longer.

3D Printed Drugs & Organs3D printing is going to transform medicine and how healthcare is delivered,from pills to hearing aids to human tissues and organs -all can be printedusing 3D-printer

Polypills, pills containing multiple drugs has been successfully printed.

People would be able to have medicine tailored to their age,size, gender and medical requirements, rather than havingto conform to current mass-production standards

says Lucy Ackland, senior development engineer at the Institution ofEngineering and Technology.

Using multiple 3D printing tools, medical scientists at Princeton Universityhave created a functional ear that can “hear” radio frequencies far beyond therange of normal human capability.

In August 2015, SPRITAM (levetiracetam) drug became the first 3D printedmedicine to receive FDA approval.

Patient Experience / Personalized TreatmentFrom general healthcare to personal healthcare

Technology is making the concepts of health and health care moving towardsthe idea of personalized preventive health maintenance and away from anexclusive focus on the cure of disease

This include

the empowerment of the individual,•

of any age,

to self-monitor

and self-manage health and wellness,

and conditions of higher risk and existing diagnosis,

and further, to start doing this today

with applications and tools

that are already available in today’s digital world

Example: GALE: 21st Century First aid kit — which transforms homehealthcare

Lab on a ChipThe ability to perform multiple laboratory operations on small scales usingminiaturized (lab-on-a-chip) devices has many benefits

UCLA uses lab-on-a-chip technology to predict how hazardous engineerednanomaterials might be. It could also be used to identify biological

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21st Century First aid kit

biomarkers that will help medical scientists and doctors detect cancer andother infectious diseases

According to a new report by Grand View Research, Inc. Global biochipsanticipated market to reach USD 25.84 billion by 2024 — and DNA chips isthe largest revenue-generating segment of the biochip applications available

HealthTech — Health TechnologyWhile technology is working on augmenting human capabilities and nanobotsare still not fully operational- but we have enough technology in today’shealthcare like:-

Digital literacy channels for medical information curated by healthcareprofessionals

Smart watches and wearables that collect and enable real-time analysisof health information

3D printed drugs and human organs

Telemedicine and robotics intervened surgeries

Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence based medical decisionsupport

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2050, there will be a “mental revolution.” We’ll have effective, safe treatmentsfor at least 10 neurodegenerative disorders. And if we’re lucky,

humans will have some telepathic communication capabilities.

Currently one medical test leads to another, and then another, leading tomedical overtreatment. There are hardly any benefits to patients about minorand very low-risk findings — and all that comes with financial andphysiological impacts. Growing number of incidentals findings leads to over-treatment

Overused medical services are already costing billions of dollars, and may bemedical overtreatment is making us sicker, but futurist Kurzweil says thathumans will be immortal by 2030

Data will make you live longer. “Curing Death” and “Reversing Aging” couldbe Google’s next milestones in the search for immortality. #HealthTech

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