Sensors and wearables for animals ... Garmin straps one on the horse's tail and a business model is born www.garmin.com/en-CA/p/1277...

Future of #MedEd: Trend 1️⃣: Embracing Collaboration, Innovation, and Diversity Trend 2️⃣: Building Flexible, Personalized Learning Platforms Trend 3️⃣: Integrating Advanced Technologies into Education learn.hms.harvard.edu/insights/all... #medsky #radres #healthxph

When one woman complained that her doctor’s office had been dismissive, a chatbot offered this reassuring reply:

First opinions, 2nd opinions, analyzing lab tests, preparing for a clinic visit, helping to make difficult diagnoses, and more use cases. Its popularity will keep increasing despite lack of objective data for benefit or harm www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/w...

Researchers created an AI system that builds digital twins from patient data to forecast future health trajectories A major step for personalized medicine Details: www.unimelb.edu.au/newsroom/new...

On Climate-Health axis: extreme heat, floods, and droughts are already driving disease outbreaks and food insecurity, and overwhelming health services. “The time of warnings has finished. Now we are living in a time of consequences.” - Brazil’s health minister Alexandre Padilha.

And yet another Patient Matching service for clinical trials raises a goib of money - myTomorrows scores $29M for clinical trial platform

Say what? 😲 @danielkraft.bsky.social Tabletop particle accelerator could transform medicine and materials science share.google/8lYqu9Oyktbh...

This doodle is one that I tend to sketch and show often when I'm meeting with leaders. (Especially leaders of publicly-traded companies.) The present can feel volatile and unsettling. Don't let that be a distraction. Keep your focus on what you're building towards in the future.

Crime gangs in UK start making own branded weight-loss drugs www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

@oecd-ocde.bsky.social state of health at a glance oe.cd/6gn

🇯🇵 What can we learn from Japan on healthy ageing? Join us on 26 Nov for a breakfast event to learn about Japan's innovative policy response to an ageing population - and how learnings can be applied in the UK in the face of demographic shifts. 📍 London / online Register ➡️ https://bit.ly/42MIQfA

Read more in the new article by @hannahritchie.bsky.social and @antea04.bsky.social: ourworldindata.org/timeline-anx...

What a cool idea - record your voice and hilltale.com will tell bedtime stories to your children in your voice - anytime.

Med school definitely should be rethought and reformed, but making it shorter is one of the smaller changes that need to happen. I have some thoughts... www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/o...

Technological progress is often equated with shiny gadgets: rockets, robots and AI. But many of history’s most important innovations have been 'boring', and that has big implications for those working on innovation for social good. Nesta's Laurie Smith explores how dull can change the world:

Mayo Clinic launches Platform_Insights — giving healthcare institutions global access to its AI-driven expertise and data insights. “Technology should enhance care, not complicate it,” says Dr. Clark Otley. A new era of human-centred digital medicine begins. @mayoclinic.org #healthcare

Philips launches DeviceGuide, an AI co-pilot that guides doctors in real time during heart repair. Developed with Edwards Lifesciences, it fuses imaging into 3D views, transforming precision and teamwork inside the beating heart. #healthcare

Hospital outpatient departments (HOPDs) care for more complex patients than independent physician offices. Those who visited an HOPD were older and sicker than those visiting independent physician offices. www.aha.org/comparison-c...

Bad ass job title “Deputy Mayor for Social Rights Economic Development Labor Feminism and Democratic Memory” To me, any one of those roles is a full time job! #BarcelonaDeepTech

We are so pleased to welcome Health Futurist and Nourish Board Chair @zaynakhayat.bsky.social next week to the 2025 Nourish Symposium: 100 Million Better Bites! Join us as we look to the future of #healthcare - together! 👉 nourishleadership.ca/programs/sym... #NourishSymposium2025 #Foresight

How Ultraprocessed Food Took Over America. UPFs are among the greatest health threats of our time, by @alicecallahan.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/b... via @nytopinion.nytimes.com

Despite concerns that A.I. will worsen inequities, there's growing evidence it can be used to reduce them. Latest today jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... My summary Table of some examples

N.I.C.E. Agents Target Americans… www.instagram.com/p/DQISiGdgfZ...

Longevity expert Dr Peter Attia: “The playbook of Medicine 2.0, which is treat a disease when a disease is present, doesn't seem to work as well.” ✅"So the first principle of Medicine 3.0 is you have to take a much longer arc on the prevention of chronic disease." www.cbsnews.com/news/prepari...

The @ufl.edu, co-authors of the @nature.com paper, took out a full page ad in @nytimes.com today about this discovery "a defining moment in cancer research."

"A defining moment in cancer research" [progress on the quest for a universal cancer vaccine]

Customer service (or lack thereof) Oldie but goodie Source - ? pre Twitter I think?

An injection of innovation for children’s vaccination. A centralized, digital vaccine registry would give parents and health care professionals the information needed to keep immunization records up to date for kids. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/edit... via @theglobeandmail.com

1+ million clinical trials are conducted annually. A shocking few ask patients (or even clinicians) for input on physical, economic, and psychological burdens, much less the questions they hope to answer. What happens? Failure. Waste. What can be done? Read: susannahfox.com/2025/10/16/p...

Health searches account(ed?) for ~8% of the ~185B searches humans do (did?) on Google daily Google search has been in free fall, with health-related Google search declining fastest At the same time, health/fitness/beauty comprises ~10% of chatGPT prompts [June 2024 data]

Will A.I. lead to de-skilling of physicians? And if so what can be done to preempt it? @tberzin.bsky.social and I address this in a new @thelancet.com thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Thought provoking future of health post of the day. A statement I read that got me really thinking. “Death of IT departments in 2030:‘digital transformation’ will sound as outdated as ‘paperless office’” Image credit: @timify10.bsky.social

These large national cohorts provided data that supported healthcare policymaking across the public and private sectors. They were some of the most important works that only CDC was able to perform - and execute well - as a nationally representative survey. www.statnews.com/2025/10/14/c...

My post of the day (re)framing the future of health & care ... This one is from my ever-growing dictionary for the new lexicon for health in the 21st century These 3 terms live at the intersection of voice & sound as a digital biomarker/phenotype + AI + medicine Image credit: The Medical Futurist

"Help us locate and commemorate our children who died while being forced by the government to attend boarding schools."

Florida’s surgeon general’s anti-vax beliefs are only the tip of a very deeply weird iceberg. Joseph Ladapo’s guiding voice? His wife, who believes she can talk to “Archangel Michael, Mary Magdalene, and many other beings of light.”

What Happened When AI Came for Craft Beer An attempt to integrate AI into a beer judging competition failed after judges protested. They felt their volunteer work was being used without consent to train a for-profit app, highlighting the clash between AI and human-centric art forms.

A measles outbreak in South Carolina has sent over 150 unvaccinated children into a 21-day quarantine. The event highlights the consequences of local vaccination rates falling below the 95% threshold needed for community immunity. #MedSky 🛟

My post of the day (re)framing the future of health & care ... This one is from my ever-growing dictionary for the new lexicon for health in the 21st century These 3 terms live at the intersection of voice & sound as a digital biomarker/phenotype + AI + medicine Image credit: The Medical Futurist

Post of the day -- what it took to lodge a complaint in the era of chisels! Source - ??

How over- and underrepresented are different causes of death in the media? Another way to visualize this data is to measure how over- or underrepresented each cause is. To do this, we calculate the ratio between a cause’s share of deaths and its share of news articles.

Reclaiming care of patients in the age of A.I. "A.I. will not replace care, rather, it could help us rediscover it." This week's @thelancet.com editorial www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

(re)frame of the day - simple image of an entirely new channel to access care & value in AI era "What matters is whether AI takes costs out of the system & amplifies scarce clinicians — and whether we invent payment models that reward that value" Myoung Cha, Verily www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

yes, this is the path forward. IN a restaurant normally I want to choose what I eat as well, in stead of the chef choosing FOR me. IN those cases where I want to be surprised, I want to CHOOSE to.

My new Substack: Will AI Rescue Primary Care? Why AI-enabled solutions have mostly failed to solve the primary care crisis, and my hope/prediction that the endgame will likely be a new two-tiered system that increasingly relies on AI for basic care needs. robertwachter.substack.com/p/will-ai-re...

"2 centuries ago, 1/3 Swedish children died before 5 yrs old Now: child mortality rate in Sweden = 0.3% South Korea achieved similar reduction much faster The 1st countries to improve living conditions need much longer - countries catching up later learn from what worked elsewhere"

(re)frame of the day Two ways to summarize the major priorities / forces that are largely universal in health and care, globally @rasushrestha.bsky.social from @advocatehealth.bsky.social @himssglobal.bsky.social CEO of HIMSS Both were set up slides to keynotes at WHX Tech in Dubai in Sept

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.