Patients need not be patient anymore. As medicine’s doctor-knows-best culture of paternalism gives way, patients are participating in ways both personal and public — whether it’s an individual taking part in treatment decisions or groups of patients working to improve care for all. Continue reading
Modalità e percorsi per la costrizione di una nuova alleanza terapeutica, stimolata e facilitata dalla rivoluzione digitale nella salute Continue reading
A Milano ‘Frontieres for Interaction’, esperti a confronto su digitale e innovazione ‘health’ Continue reading
Researchers are poised to make huge advances in medicine, particularly in how we treat cancer and arthritis. See how big data and IT are contributing. Continue reading
Sabato 14 Novembre 2015 ore 15:30 la conferenza sulla salute a Firenze Continue reading
As computers get better at navigating the world around them, they are also helping humans better navigate that world as well. Thanks to advances in AI and robotics, scientists from IBM Research and Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) are working on new types of real-world accessibility solutions for the visually impaired. Continue reading
According to Deloitte report, millennials are the most likely demographic to utilize technology for their health. Continue reading
Kids now grow up using mobile technologies, so digital health is not shying away from reaching out to the younger generation. Children tend to be a very open-minded audience, able to absorb useful information presented to them in compelling, innovative ways. Continue reading
La psoriasi non aggredisce solo la pelle, corrode progressivamente la percezione dello schema corporeo, l’autostima, le capacità relazionali. Non è una malattia contagiosa, ma lo diventa nello sguardo impaurito e distanziante degli altri. Oltre alla sofferenza,
provoca vergogna, perché il soggetto si colloca da solo nella categoria di chi produce disagio e rifiuto. La psoriasi diventa progressivamente una malattia dell’io. Continue reading
Researchers at George Washington University are reporting that they’ve discovered the human consciousness on-off switch, deep within the brain. When this region of the brain, called the claustrum, is electrically stimulated, consciousness — self-awareness, sentience, whatever you want to call it — appears to turn off completely. Continue reading