Intro: Incremental AI assists to doctors will cascade into healthcare revolution Five years ago, I was diagnosed with central sleep apnea. Apparently my brain sometimes forgets to remind my lungs to breath when I’m sleeping. While a diagnosis of central sleep apnea (CSA) doesn’t compare with cancer’s urgency or MS uncertainty, CSA’s short-term effects (headaches […]
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8) What’s ahead?
Medicine beyond the clinic: wearables + genomics + networked patients + AI Pulling together everything that’s above, we can predict the location and shape — if not the exact form — of what what’s ahead in the next 20 years. Obviously, large chunks of the industry of medicine will remain intact. Health care specialists and institutions focused on obstetrics, orthopedics, […]
4) Five categories of health technology change
More of more: devices, precision, data, users, and software To be clear, I’m not claiming that any of the genetic data or analysis above is close to 100% accurate. Or that I know what all the numbers mean. Or that the results are in any way currently actionable — unless you’re considering asking me out on a date. […]
3) A jumbo jet in every garage, a CAT scanner in every rec room
Patient, heal thyself As I’ve monkeyed with genetic tests, friends have reminded me that patients generally know a lot less than their doctors. (Yes, an eyebrow sometimes has been arched in my direction.) Overwhelmed by complexity and without years of rigorous training, patients are prone to grabbing at simple-sounding fixes. Avoid vaccines! Stop eating gluten! Gimme […]
2) A peek at my genes relating to empathy, OCD, and cheese burger risk
Recently I spit into a little plastic tube and sent it off to 23andMe. I sprang for the $200 DNA test because it was a fast, affordable way to detect genes relating to hereditary thrombophelia — a tendency to clot. I was interested because, in early October 2018, I had experienced a pulmonary embolism — in layman’ terms, clot(s) […]
0) Two times Fitbit didn’t save my life
Like most of my Saturdays, October 6, 2018 began with an extra-large coffee laced with plenty of cream.
