Over the last few decades, our digitally expanding world has experienced another significant digitalization boost because of COVID-19 pandemic. Digital transformations are changing every aspect this world. New technological innovations springing up continuously, attracting increasing attention and investments. twin, one highest trending technologies recent years, is now joining forces with heal...

A revolution is underway in health education and support for patients with, or at risk for, diabetes. This chapter will present examples of technology-enabled behavior change interventions that have the potential to lead this revolution in healthcare transformation. The seeds of the coming revolution have already been sown, though most of us can only see the emerging sprouts of these changes. T...

In this paper, we build the case that 5G and concomitant emerging technologies (such as IoT, big data, artificial intelligence, and machine learning) will transform global healthcare systems in the near future. Our optimism around 5G-enabled healthcare stems from a confluence of significant technical pushes that are already at play: apart from the availability of highthroughput low-latency wire...

Pierre-Gerlier Forest has put forward the case that we are on the brink of a revolution in health policy that will be the result of the interplay of five factors. I would not challenge any of them but would emphasize the need to address socio-economic health inequalities, which have the potential to become a major cost driver in a time of growing economic inequality. To Dr. Forest's list, I wou...

Medicine is now undertaking a paramount revolution that will alter the nature of healthcare from reactive to proactive. It is imperative to integrate experimental and computational investigation in order to appreciate complex biological systems in the era of precision medicine. In light of this revolution, we necessitate to precision medicine means such as systems approaches (genomics, radiogen...

significant sociopolitical changes in recent decades have not only influenced the nursing profession, but also the entire iranian healthcare system. this study describes the historical evolution of the nursing profession within a sociopolitical context. this historical review of unpublished and published literature endorsed personal accounts of historic events by 14 of the oldest nurses in iran...

Following the Islamic Revolution of 1979 in Iran, the trend of migration of physicians from the country continued. The total number of Iranian physicians migrated to the United States (US) increased from 1625 before revolution in 1974, to 5045 in 2010, thirty years post-revolution. The percentage of medical graduates migrating to the US, in the same period dropped from 15% to 5%. The reasons fo...