Resolutions and Revolutions: The State of Healthcare Technology in 2019

January

Issue 003

The New Year is here, bringing resolutions and reservations about seeing these changes through. For January's Here and Now, we're taking the pulse of healthcare technologies — could the resurgence of electric muscle stimulation keep that "get healthy" commitment on track? Or could genetic engineering render the gym obsolete?

Hello, House Calls

Advancing telemedicine is bringing doctors back into patients' homes. Combined with wearable devices streaming data to health professionals, tech-based care is quickly going mainstream.

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No Pain, All Gain

Remember electric muscle stimulation (EMS)? The stuff of late-night '80s infomercials has been reimagined as new tech that compels muscles to contract on their own.

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CRISPR Crunch

Driven by technologies such as CRISPR-Cas9, genetic engineering is paving the way for disease-resistant human genomes — scientists have already modified in vitro human embryos to repair germline mutations.

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Lost Vagus?

Bioelectronic medicine may hold the key to treating electric-signal breakdowns in the body. Future potential includes brain-based electrodes to manage diseases such as Parkinson's without the need for surgery.

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New Year, New Tech

Healthcare wearables, mobile access to electronic medical records (EMRs), hand-held genome sequencers and artificial organs — like the new FDA-approved artificial pancreas — are ready to revolutionize the market.

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