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The future of health and medicine
At a session held during GITEX, Dr. Daniel
Kraft, MD Faculty Chair, Medicine and
Neuroscience Singularity University, and
Founder and Chair of Exponential Medicine,
discussed the fusion that was now taking
place between traditional healthcare
practices and increasingly virtual, disruptive
means of treatment.
“The future of medicine may not look like
the traditional four walls of a hospital but will
become increasingly virtualised and mobile,
and AI and data-driven,” he said. “We have
the opportunity to get out of the old ways
of practicing medicine. We can catalyse
many innovations to rethink and reimagine
healthcare, get out of our silos, because
medicine is very much traditionally based, and
also get out of our silos of anatomy as we are
now in a genomic, digital and connected age.
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“Five billion people die every year, not
from lack of medical care, but lack of good
medical care. And now we are in an era
where the Internet and data are becoming
ubiquitous. Information is power, where we
can leverage these technologies to deliver
care when and where it’s needed.”
Kraft considered the ways that wearables,
body computing, Big Data, Virtual
Reality and Artificial Intelligence will give
humanity the opportunity to rethink and
imagine healthcare.
“I urge all of you to not think about how
technology is in 2019 but envision where it’s
going to be in 2022 and even 2029,” he said.
“Bill Gates said ‘we tend to overestimate
what happens in a year, but underestimate
what happens in the next decade’. Let’s
all of us move together; to move from
reactive sick care to proactive prevention in
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THE FUTURE OF
MEDICINE MAY
NOT LOOK LIKE
THE TRADITIONAL
FOUR WALLS OF
A HOSPITAL BUT
WILL BECOME
INCREASINGLY
VIRTUALISED.
healthcare; to make it from one-size-fits-all
to personalised; from siloed to intelligent
and crowd-sourced. If we take this mindset
to exponential power, and get it out of our
linear mindset, it’s up to us to create the
future together.” n
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