The Fascinating Future of Cloud Diagnosis
Via a slightly old article in Good Magazine comes word of a great student project out of Australia called StethoCloud that is aimed at using the receiver on a phone to diagnose pneumonia by capturing...
View ArticleA Lesson in Designing Nudges from the World of Crime Prevention
The BBC has a great article up exploring subconscious efforts to fight crime through design. Among the ideas: Cover walls and buildings with pictures of babies, play classical music to try to calm...
View ArticleThe Rise of the Underground Bio-Economy
We like to look to hidden places to find some of our most intriguing signals about the future--and in this case, an unusual crime seems to be pointing toward the increasingly important, and...
View ArticleTransforming Bodies and Lifestyles: Insights into Inspiring Behavior Change
Inspiring people to change their behaviors in order to become healthier remains one of the most intractable challenges. But it also remains one of the most significant. Fifty-percent of all deaths each...
View ArticleRethinking Health Care Models: Mapping the New Landscape Workshop...
This year, Institute for the Future's Health program research is focused on new and sustaining care and business models in the post-ACA decade. We started our research exploration by reviewing the...
View ArticleBreaking False Boundaries in Health Care Perspectives
Boundaries are important. In health, meaningful boundaries protect personal health information, ensure patient and product safety, and, in many cases, they improve efficiencies and scalability,...
View ArticleIgniting Change: Innovative Care Models in the Post-ACA Decade
A decade ago, innovation in health care was about designing new products and services. From medical equipment creatively designed to be more durable and affordable to outreach efforts using the latest...
View ArticleThe Inevitable: An update from the Health Futures Lab
Kevin Kelly, co-founder of Wired magazine, participated in a conversation as part of IFTF’s 2016 Technology Horizons Conference, When Everything is Media. Kelly shared highlights from his latest book,...
View ArticleCentering Health: Pathways in the New Global Health Economy 2026 - Map Booklet
With Centering Health: Pathways in the Global Health Economy 2026, the Health Futures Lab invites you to reimagine how to design viable pathways to health for the many. These pathways navigate the...
View ArticleCentering Health: Pathways in the New Global Health Economy 2026 - Conference...
With Centering Health: Pathways in the Global Health Economy 2026, the Health Futures Lab invites you to reimagine how to design viable pathways to health for the many. These pathways navigate the...
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