{"id":20726,"date":"2016-01-13T15:47:26","date_gmt":"2016-01-13T23:47:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/7-mind-blowing-digital-health-tools-that-could-disrupt-health-care-in-2016"},"modified":"2017-04-24T23:03:17","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T06:03:17","slug":"7-mind-blowing-digital-health-tools-that-could-disrupt-health-care-in-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/7-mind-blowing-digital-health-tools-that-could-disrupt-health-care-in-2016","title":{"rendered":"7 Mind-Blowing Digital Health Tools That Could Disrupt Health Care in 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/7-mind-blowing-digital-health-tools-that-could-disrupt-health-care-in-2016.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Wow!!! Chewing gum wearable technology, Cyborg Chips, Ingestible sensors to let doctors know if you\u2019re taking your meds, etc. 2016 is going to be interesting<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The phrase \u201cBrave New World\u201d has become one of the most often used clich\u00e9s in medical technology in recent years. Google the title of Aldous Huxley\u2019s 1932 dystopian, and anticipatory, novel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=brave+new+world+medicine\" target=\"_hplink\">with the word medicine<\/a> and 2,940,000 results appear.<\/p>\n<p>But could there be better shorthand to describe some of the recent developments in medical, health and bio-tech? Consider these possibilities coming to fruition, or close to, in 2016:<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. Back from Extinction<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Gene-editing startup Editas Medicine of Cambridge, Mass., filed to go public this month. The company\u2019s founder, Harvard professor George Church, hopes to, among other things, <a href=\"http:\/\/recode.net\/2016\/01\/05\/meet-the-time-traveling-scientist-behind-editas-the-biotech-company-going-public-with-googles-help\/\" target=\"_hplink\">revive the extinct woolly mammoth<\/a> or create a facsimile. Investors include Google and Bill Gates.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/florence-comite-md\/7-mindblowing-digital-hea_b_8959522.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow!!! Chewing gum wearable technology, Cyborg Chips, Ingestible sensors to let doctors know if you\u2019re taking your meds, etc. 2016 is going to be interesting The phrase \u201cBrave New World\u201d has become one of the most often used clich\u00e9s in medical technology in recent years. Google the title of Aldous Huxley\u2019s 1932 dystopian, and anticipatory, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1523,1499,1694,12,1495,1977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-computing","category-cyborgs","category-electronics","category-existential-risks","category-health","category-wearables"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20726"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51170,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20726\/revisions\/51170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}