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With the evolution of social media, it is no longer just a place to post pictures and share your thoughts. It has now evolved into spaces where users can track and encourage each other's personal development. Applications like Strava and Nike run club allow you to build community
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Projection Pals is a digital platform that allows inpatient individuals a place to personalize their space and engage with others creatively during their stay. Within the Projection Pals app, individuals will be able to create art or write messages that can be projected within their hospital room or sent to
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Improving the utilization of preventative care could be the key to saving more lives, money, and resources. With preventative care, physicians are able to monitor and diagnose conditions earlier, allowing for more effective treatment options earlier. This has been shown to reduce long term health care costs and burden on
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Hospital-at-home programs combine in-person care in concordance with remote monitoring, wearables, artificial intelligence, and telehealth to provide selected individuals with comprehensive care from the comfort of their own home. This care can match and even exceed levels of care provided in the hospital, while keeping hospital beds
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The article “Rehabilitation Beyond the Clinic: How Autonomous VNS Could Accelerate Stroke Recovery” by Battelle paints a clear picture of how one of Battelle’s case studies is developing autonomous technology to improve patient care. In this specific use case, Battelle is looking at creating a system to autonomously stimulate
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Health information technology has become a potential steppingstone to improve informed patient autonomy with one’s own healthcare treatment. Patient-facing technology like online portals and mobile applications aid in this process by providing people easier access to health records, provider selection, and health care management. With this technology, people
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With the usage and capabilities of artificial intelligence surging, people have continually found new ways to adapt it to their needs. One growing use in recent years has been in providing counsel for those struggling with self harm and suicidal ideation. According to ChatGPT, more than a million users discuss
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As technology has evolved throughout time, so has medicine. With the integration and development of new technology into the medical field, healthcare can become more effective, versatile, and cost effective. This integration could help eliminate systems or tasks that might hinder or limit excellent healthcare practices. Current technology that the
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Neko Health is a new healthcare company that focuses on preventative care. Their model focuses on providing customers with diagnostic full-body scans and blood tests to increase lifespan and promote disease prevention. Currently Neko only operates in Sweden and Britain. However, they are trying to get into the New
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“How Art Is Making People Healthier,” by Elizabeth Hewitt, explores the healing power of art and art programs. Elizabeth brings to light multiple cases where the arts have helped patients ranging from improving mental health to even improving patients’ gaits at the end of a dance class session. The article
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The article “Could creativity transform medicine? These artists think so,” by Mara Goldman explores how the intersection between art and medicine can be pushed beyond its current boundaries to create more humanizing and better care solutions. In many ways, medicine has been seen as sterile and uninviting. Almost dehumanizing in
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The article “My Beautiful Medical Device,” by Dorothy Shamonsky enlightened me on why making aesthetically pleasing designs can play an important role in a product's usability. To enhance user experience, one of the most important things to understand is human behavior and logic. This information is critical to