Title page -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- About the Future of Health Technology Institute "Common Sense in Health -- Elevator to the Future -- Human Soul Sculptured by the Suffering -- Contents -- Goals and Unsolved Problems -- Healthons: Errorless Healthcare with Bionic Hugs and No Need for Quality Control -- Consumers Era - Sociotechnological Environment -- The Prospects for Medical Technology in the Next Decade -- Innovation in Telehealth and a Role for the Government -- Present and Future Challenges in Medical Data Management: Economics, Ethics, and the Law -- Healthons Era - Technology on Our Body, in Our Body and All Around Us -- Healthwear: Medical Technology Becomes Wearable -- Interfacing Biology and Computing for Health: The Future of Home Diagnostics -- Designing and Evaluating Home-Based, Just-in-Time Supportive Technology -- Health. Care. Anywhere. Today -- How Do We Get the Medical Intelligence Out? -- Cyborgs Era - Implants, Merging Humans with Machines and Caring Machines -- Future of Computer Implant Technology and Intelligent Human-Machine Systems -- Future of Caring Machines -- Cyber-Anthropology: A New Study on Human and Technological Co-Evolution -- Hi-Tech Cure and Care Era - Examples: Future of Cancer and Addiction Control -- Harnessing the Power of an Intelligent Health Environment in Cancer Control -- Future of Anti-Addiction Vaccines -- Automating Addiction Treatment: Enhancing the Human Experience and Creating a Fix for the Future -- Long Life Era - Extending Human Life-Span and Future of Caring for Elders -- A Strategy for Postponing Aging Indefinitely -- Future of Caring for an Aging Population: Trends, Technology, and Caregiving -- Promoting Safe and Comfortable Driving for Elders -- Global Digital Healthcare Era - Enhancing Healthcare with Soft Technologies -- Global Medicine Technology.

Shaping a Healthy Future: Megabyte, Not Mega Bite! -- Digital Literacy in a Landscape of Data: A Plea for a Broader Definition for Citizens and Patients -- Adaptive and Errorless Era - Adaptive Healthcare Process Management -- Situated, Strategic, and AI-Enhanced Technology Introduction to Healthcare -- Towards an Intelligent Hospital Environment: OR of the Future -- Framework for Measuring Adaptive Knowledge-Rich Systems Performance -- The Authors -- Biographies of the Authors -- Author Index.

The technology on our body, in our body and all around us enhances our health and well-being from conception to death. This environment is emerging now with intelligent caring machines, cyborgs, wireless embedded continuous computing, healthwear, sensors, healthons, nanomedicine, adaptive process control, mathematical modeling and common sense systems. The human body and the world in which it functions is a continuously changing complex adaptive system. We are able to collect more and more data about it but the real challenge is to infer local dynamics from that data. Intelligent Caring Biomechatronic Creatures and Healthmaticians (mathematicians serving human health) have a better chance of inferring the dynamics that needs to be understood than human physicians. Humans can only process comfortably three dimensions while computers can see infinite number of dimensions. We will need to trust the distributed network of healthons, Intelligent Caring Creatures, and NURSES (New Unified Resource System Engineers) to create Health Extelligence. We need new vocabulary to push forward in a new way. For instance; healthons are tools combining prevention with diagnosis and treatment, based on continuous monitoring and analyzing of our vital signs and biochemistry. The 'Healthon Era' is just beginning. We are closer and closer to the world with healthons on your body, in your body and all around you; where not a doctor but your primary care healthmatician warns you about an approaching headache; and where NURSE programs your intelligent caring creatures so they can talk to your cells and stop disease in its tracks.

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