What does 2016 have in store in the realm of science and clinical innovation? Vector asked clinical, digital and business leaders from around Boston Children’s Hospital to offer their forecasts.
Our quantified brains
2016 will see more work on brain differences from individual to individual, and even from day to day in a single person. For example, Russ Poldrack at Stanford University, a well-known researcher in the field, scanned his own brain twice a week for one year and also looked at his gene expression, diet, mood, life events and other parameters. The data, published last month, are openly available so that more people can use existing tools and develop new ones to analyze data sets like this. There are several similar projects underway, along with a lively debate about the advantages, disadvantages and ethical implications of this kind of work. It will, for sure, advance our knowledge about the brain, its development and the effects of genes, mood, nutrition, medications, environmental factors and more over time. — Nadine Gaab, PhD, Developmental Medicine Research
Growth of the ‘internet of health care’
The convergence of consumers’ increasing awareness of their health and their ever-connected devices has given rise to a more portable, proactive form of health care. Families will increasingly look to perform front-line health care triage with diagnostic mobile applications and devices like Oto and iThermometer and decision support apps like Thermia. Home connectivity hubs like Amazon’s Echo, Microsoft’s Xbox/HoloLens and social robots like Pepper and Jibo will begin to be used for intuitive health care delivery. (At Boston Children’s Hospital, we are developing a health app for Amazon Echo, a wireless speaker that responds to voice commands and delivers information via a personal digital assistant, Alexa.)
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