HealthTech Hub Vol #10 — The Best Reads in Medicine and Health Tech
- Self-Perception and Your Health — The mind is a powerful tool. Researchers at Stanford show that having a lowly perception of your relative activity levels can be more harmful than you’d think. There are strong efforts geared toward changing behavior (“eat healthier”, “exercise more”, “stress less”), but mindset and perception may be just as important.
Related Studies:
- Does the Perception that Stress Affects Health Matter? The Association with Health and Mortality
- Mind over milkshakes: mindsets, not just nutrients, determine ghrelin response.
2. Medication Mistakes — From 2002 to 2012, the number of serious medical errors reported outside of health care facilities more than doubled. Experts posit that managing multiple medications can be confusing, especially for elderly patients. Health records and logs have helped reduce medication errors in hospitals.
3. “Medical Detectives” and Crowd-Sourced Medical Advice — Companies like CrowdMed and Figure 1 are revolutionizing how diagnoses are made for unique medical cases. By crowdsourcing the expertise of available medical professionals all around the world, patients and clinicians are able to receive second opinions that can help pinpoint proper treatments or assist with diagnosis.
4. What are health tech innovation experts betting on? — Read more about MM&M’s report on what experts are betting on as the new frontiers of health technology. They claim the three biggest landscapes are VR, nanotechnology, and 3D Printing.
5. Huddle aims to create safe share-space via video — With the unfortunate stigma that is at-times associated with mental health, openly discussing mental health problems face-to-face often turns into an avoided task. Huddle has launched a unique video-platform for its users to share their struggles with others with the option to remain anonymous.
