The Future Circle of Healthcare: AI, 3D Printing, Longevity, Ethics, and Uncertainty Mitigation

This book explores how healthcare might change and evolve over the next decade, considering the rapid pace of technological advances, healthy aging, chronic disease management, ethical dimensions, and uncertainty in medical knowledge. It discusses challenges and opportunities for providing medical, economic, and ethical values to humans.

Format: Hardback
Length: 407 pages
Publication date: 12 September 2022
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland AG

The past decade has underscored the urgent requirement to continually envision and assess diverse scenarios where ongoing trends and unexpected disruptions could convergently reshape the provision of healthcare and guide medical research. This book brings together esteemed scholars whose areas of expertise encompass diverse themes crucial in comprehending the potential transformations and evolution of healthcare over the forthcoming decade. What insights can we glean from current and historical developments? The book's thematic exploration revolves around four fundamental pillars. The first pillar emphasizes the rapid pace and widespread adoption of technological advancements in domains such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, additive manufacturing, and wearable electronics. The second pillar focuses on healthy aging, longevity, and the management of chronic diseases. The third pillar underscores the imperative of staying attuned to the ethical implications of medical decisions, adapting bioethics to evolving healthcare delivery. Lastly, the fourth pillar addresses the challenge of mitigating uncertainty in various domains of medical knowledge and translating it into clinical practice. For instance, how should we navigate uncertainty regarding the outcomes of clinical trials for a novel treatment? What cost-benefit analyses would be most appropriate in such situations? Chapter authors identify respective challenges and promising opportunities, engaging in discussions on how these can contribute to shaping the future scope of healthcare in terms of delivering medical, economic, and ethical values to humanity.

Chapters 1, 4, 12, and 20 are accessible open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via the link: link.springer.com.

Weight: 799g
Dimension: 235 x 155 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9783030998370
Edition number: 1st ed. 2022