The Medical Futurist

JUNE 17, 2025

Smart toothbrush While AI helps dental professionals provide better treatments, smart toothbrushes enable all of us to take better care of our teeth. These provide real-time feedback via a companion app warning you if you are applying too much pressure, where you are brushing and even coach the user as to how to brush properly.

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My Green Doctor

MAY 3, 2025

The breadth of services provided by modern day medicine is profound. Organizations such as EyeSustain and My Green Doctor are educating clinicians and practice managers on ways to reduce medical waste and are promoting research on this topic. Reducing waste can save money for practices and operating rooms, and benefit the environment.

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The Medical Futurist

MAY 18, 2025

A human-sized, smiling robot combines the very best in cutting-edge technology and human touch to provide frequent check-ins and non-medical care for residents in long-term care settings. And we could go on and on with the examples of social robots involved in elderly care. Exoskeletons started finding their place in healthcare systems.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

And we would provide ongoing longitudinal care to them in the home, much like the Mount Sinai Visiting Doctors programs, and other programs like that. And the treatments are different than what hospice might provide in the home setting. I trained at Hopkins. We had, since the late seventies, a home-based primary care program.

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