The technology on our body, in our body and all around us enhances our health and well-being from conception to death. Human body and the world in which it functions is a continuously changing complex adaptive system. We are able to collect more and more data about it but the real challenge is to infer local dynamics from that data. Intelligent Caring Biomechatronic Creatures and Healthmaticians (mathematicians serving human health) have a better chance of inferring the dynamics that needs to be understood than human physicians. Humans can only process comfortably three dimensions while computers can see infinite number of dimensions. We will need to trust the distributed network of healthons, Intelligent Caring Creatures, and NURSES (New Unified Resource System Engineers) to create Health Extelligence. We need new vocabulary to push forward in a new way. For instance; healthons are tools combining prevention with diagnosis and treatment based on continuous monitoring and analyzing of our vital signs and biochemistry.
Author(s): R.G. Bushko
Edition: 1
Year: 2005
Language: English
Pages: 352
Title page......Page 1
Preface......Page 5
Acknowledgements......Page 6
About the Future of Health Technology Institute "Common Sense in Health"......Page 7
Elevator to the Future......Page 8
Human Soul Sculptured by the Suffering......Page 9
Contents......Page 11
Goals and Unsolved Problems......Page 15
Healthons: Errorless Healthcare with Bionic Hugs and No Need for Quality Control......Page 17
Consumers Era - Sociotechnological Environment......Page 27
The Prospects for Medical Technology in the Next Decade......Page 29
Innovation in Telehealth and a Role for the Government......Page 46
Present and Future Challenges in Medical Data Management: Economics, Ethics, and the Law......Page 57
Healthons Era - Technology on Our Body, in Our Body and All Around Us......Page 67
Healthwear: Medical Technology Becomes Wearable......Page 69
Interfacing Biology and Computing for Health: The Future of Home Diagnostics......Page 80
Designing and Evaluating Home-Based, Just-in-Time Supportive Technology......Page 93
Health. Care. Anywhere. Today......Page 103
How Do We Get the Medical Intelligence Out?......Page 125
Cyborgs Era - Implants, Merging Humans with Machines and Caring Machines......Page 137
Future of Computer Implant Technology and Intelligent Human-Machine Systems......Page 139
Future of Caring Machines......Page 146
Cyber-Anthropology: A New Study on Human and Technological Co-Evolution......Page 160
Hi-Tech Cure and Care Era - Examples: Future of Cancer and Addiction Control......Page 171
Harnessing the Power of an Intelligent Health Environment in Cancer Control......Page 173
Future of Anti-Addiction Vaccines......Page 191
Automating Addiction Treatment: Enhancing the Human Experience and Creating a Fix for the Future......Page 200
Long Life Era - Extending Human Life-Span and Future of Caring for Elders......Page 221
A Strategy for Postponing Aging Indefinitely......Page 223
Future of Caring for an Aging Population: Trends, Technology, and Caregiving......Page 234
Promoting Safe and Comfortable Driving for Elders......Page 245
Global Digital Healthcare Era - Enhancing Healthcare with Soft Technologies......Page 259
Global Medicine Technology......Page 261
Shaping a Healthy Future: Megabyte, Not Mega Bite!......Page 271
Digital Literacy in a Landscape of Data: A Plea for a Broader Definition for Citizens and Patients......Page 277
Adaptive and Errorless Era - Adaptive Healthcare Process Management......Page 285
Situated, Strategic, and AI-Enhanced Technology Introduction to Healthcare......Page 287
Towards an Intelligent Hospital Environment: OR of the Future......Page 292
Framework for Measuring Adaptive Knowledge-Rich Systems Performance......Page 327
The Authors......Page 339
Biographies of the Authors......Page 341
Author Index......Page 349
