Two significant and exciting leaps in healthtech in 2020

In the face of the seemingly ever-growing set of challenges facing the global community, there are positive and encouraging news out of science & tech that give hope for a brighter future for all.

Two really exciting advances in healthcare technology, that I think are signs of monumental advances for medical care, are these following two stories that came out this January 2020:

https://www.healthimaging.com/topics/healthcare-economics/fda-clear-worlds-first-portable-mri

https://www.statnews.com/2020/02/20/machine-learning-finds-novel-antibiotic-able-to-kill-superbugs/

Looking back

Looking back at some posts I’ve saved from over the years, this one stood out today:

Today, the tech hobbies with momentum include: math-based currencies like Bitcoin, new software development tools like NoSQL databases, the internet of things, 3D printing, touch-free human/computer interfaces, and “artisanal” hardware like the kind you find on Kickstarter…

It’s a good bet these present-day hobbies will seed future industries.

Chris Dixon, 2013

It’s especially fulfilling to see mass adoption of wearables today, as well as the ever expanding set of companies offering options to collect, correlate, and offer alerts/intervention/action, based on body signal sensor readings, like EKG, blood pressure, etc.

Makes me happy to have explored the space years ago with the euMetrica project in 2012-2013.

More on the topic and 2 take away lessons for self - in my recent LinkedIn post.

(it’s funny - even TripNotify, as a single day hackathon concept from back in 2012, was in some ways a preview of all of the fall detection apps available today in 2019)

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Gotta keep going - what’s next?