20/03/2025
België staat op de hoogste plaats ooit, de 14e, in de wereldwijde geluksindex. Dat blijkt uit het World Happiness Report. Vorig jaar stond ons land nog op de 16e plaats. Finland heeft voor het 8e jaar op rij de gelukkigste bevolking ter wereld.
Lees het artikel op de VRT-site:
Kunnen machines therapisten zijn? Dat was de startvraag.
Een vergelijk tussen antwoorden geschreven door psychotherapisten en door ChatGPT, toont dat deze laatste in het algemeen hoger worden gescoord, volgens een studie gepubliceerd 12 februari, 2025, in het open-access journaal PLOS Mental Health by H. Dorian Hatch, van de Ohio State University en co-founder van Hatch Data and Mental Health, en collegas.
Lees het abstract van het onderzoek hier: https://journals.plos.org/mentalhealth/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmen.0000145
Deze Antwerpse start-up maakt een slimme lamp, die detecteert of senioren vallen. Vallen is één van de hoofdoorzaken van complicaties waaraan senioren sterven. Dus zeker een waardevolle innovatie.
Ze focusen vooral op USA en VK, de Europese markt is te gefragmenteerd.
Check de site hier: Nobi
Dit kwam op onze radar door een artikel in De Tijd over hun laatste kapitaalronde. Lees het artikel hier: https://www.tijd.be/ondernemen/technologie/investeerders-pompen-35-miljoen-in-antwerpse-slimme-lamp-nobi/10584566.html
Imagine, it’s 2035 … You’re sitting in your self-driving car, although public transport will be more likely. You can afford the car, but you no longer want to. A revolution has passed, being rich and privileged is frowned upon.
Does this look bad for you? No! You’re actually happy, because you enjoy life to the fullest. You understand hardships are what makes the highs so enjoyable. You’ve been expecting them, also in your health. But you’re living it to the max.
Dreamy? Sure. Possible? You bet!
We want to create the most valuable company on the planet and we believe this will be a HealthTech company. When you have all the money in the world, all you care about is being healthy.
The doctors and patients of today will have radically changed. In the (not so?) far future, potential patiënts and their doctors will check symptoms based on the best possible knowledge available worldwide (and beyond?), not just locally on some website or the doctor’s memory (or search online).
Showing the need to physically meet, the appointment will be made through a virtual assistant, giving away all your symptoms and potentially your health tracker (Garmin/…) stats to support the preliminary pathology. The patient will have to confirm their appointment based on their needed reminderschedule that has effect, because doctors will fine no-shows big-time.
A (virtual) doctor might request you to go to your local HealthPod, where a robot can draw your blood and other samples to go to the lab or labtest it immediately. Giving the doctor a focus on what really counts, the patient interaction and verification of other possibly missed symptoms.
Meeting physically, the conversation will be followed by a multimodal model (speech, but also video) to track the conversation, symptoms, (likelihood of the information?), … and match it with:
to provide the best health care possible (with mentioning the sources). This might result in merely advice or a prescription that’s automatically written when the MD explains the prescription to the patient. Both will be stored by the patient’s virtual assistant and the patient’s file for future retrieval, the pharmacy, a specialist, …
In case it’s just a regular check-up for the insurance, the doctor will talk with the patient to hear what it’s about, check and speak out/write down the symptoms and the doctor’s virtual assistant will fill in the paperwork.
Is this the future? No, that’s what’s already happening today. Want to know what’s coming? Reach out!
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