Medicine 4.0: New Technologies as Tools for a Society 5.0
Are new technologies in the medicine sector a driver to support the development of a society 5.0? Innovation pushes the artisan to become smart and lean, customer-oriented but within a standardized environment of production, maintaining and ensuring the quality of the product. An artisan is a user a...
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doaj-291827b35f4349c99f118a50b1bdc49c2020-11-25T02:37:34ZengMDPI AGJournal of Clinical Medicine2077-03832020-07-0192198219810.3390/jcm9072198Medicine 4.0: New Technologies as Tools for a Society 5.0Giuseppe Ioppolo0Franck Vazquez1Michael G. Hennerici2Emmanuel Andrès3Department of Economics, University of study of Messina, Via dei Verdi, 75, 98122 Messina, ItalyMDPI AG, St. Alban-Anlage 66, CH-4052 Basel, SwitzerlandDepartment of Neurology, Medical Faculty Mannheim, University Hospital Mannheim–University Heidelberg, D-68167 Mannheim, GermanyPôle M.I.R.N.E.D. et Service du Service de Médecine Interne, Diabète et Maladies Métaboliques Hôpitaux Universitaires de Strasbourg, Faculté de Médecine-Université de Strasbourg, 1 porte de l’Hôpital, 67000 Strasbourg, FranceAre new technologies in the medicine sector a driver to support the development of a society 5.0? Innovation pushes the artisan to become smart and lean, customer-oriented but within a standardized environment of production, maintaining and ensuring the quality of the product. An artisan is a user and innovator, as an essential part of the industrial chain. In the healthcare sector, the doctor is the industrial artisan, and medicine can be considered as an example of a smart tool, strongly tailored, that embeds the innovation of materials, nano-devices, and smart technology (e.g., sensors and controllers). But how much of society is ready to host smart technology “on board”, becoming “on life”, constantly connected with remote controls that allow us to monitor, gather data, and, in any case, act, with preventive healthcare solutions? After a short overview of the medicine sector, a preliminary, tentative link between technological innovation and the healthcare sector allows us to adopt several outlooks on how to change research, always more transdisciplinary, combining science with social science in order to remain human-centered.https://www.mdpi.com/2077-0383/9/7/2198Covid-19medicine 4.0emerging technologysociety 5.0 |
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Are new technologies in the medicine sector a driver to support the development of a society 5.0? Innovation pushes the artisan to become smart and lean, customer-oriented but within a standardized environment of production, maintaining and ensuring the quality of the product. An artisan is a user and innovator, as an essential part of the industrial chain. In the healthcare sector, the doctor is the industrial artisan, and medicine can be considered as an example of a smart tool, strongly tailored, that embeds the innovation of materials, nano-devices, and smart technology (e.g., sensors and controllers). But how much of society is ready to host smart technology “on board”, becoming “on life”, constantly connected with remote controls that allow us to monitor, gather data, and, in any case, act, with preventive healthcare solutions? After a short overview of the medicine sector, a preliminary, tentative link between technological innovation and the healthcare sector allows us to adopt several outlooks on how to change research, always more transdisciplinary, combining science with social science in order to remain human-centered. |
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