“Tricorders Are Not Sci-Fi Anymore:” Ten Tech Tips for Today’s Clinicians
“In the near future, we won’t just be prescribing drugs, we’ll be prescribing apps,” said physician-futurist Daniel Kraft, MD, at the recent NEXT Innovation Summit. Dr. Kraft said that a Star Trek-esque world of tricorder-enabled Dr. McCoy’s tailoring treatments and tweaking human biology based on real-time physiologic data is already here. ”It’s just not evenly distributed.” Dr. Kraft also reviewed 10 essential tech advances that should be part of any practitioner's digital tool bag.