Health Physics; Now and Future

Future health systems: Why future? Why now?

Thirty years from now: future physics contributions in nuclear medicine

BACKGROUND This paper is the first in a series of invited perspectives by pioneers of nuclear medicine imaging and physics. A medical physicist and a nuclear medicine physician each take a backward and a forward look at the contributions of physics to nuclear medicine. Here, we provide a forward look from the medical physicist's perspective. DISCUSSION The author examines a number of developm...

Occupational safety and health in India: now and the future.

India, a growing economy and world's largest democracy, has population exceeding 1.2 billion. Out of this huge number, 63.6% form working age group. More than 90% work in the informal economy, mainly agriculture and services. Less than 10% work in the organized sector; mainly industry, mining and some services. New service industries like Information Technology (IT), Business Process Outsourcin...

The Physics of 'Now'

The world is four-dimensional according to fundamental physics, governed by basic laws that operate in a spacetime that has no unique division into space and time. Yet our subjective experience of this world is divided into present, past, and future. What is the origin of this division? What is its four-dimensional description? Is this the only way experience can be organized consistently with ...

Electronic Health Records: Then, Now, and in the Future.

OBJECTIVES Describe the state of Electronic Health Records (EHRs) in 1992 and their evolution by 2015 and where EHRs are expected to be in 25 years. Further to discuss the expectations for EHRs in 1992 and explore which of them were realized and what events accelerated or disrupted/derailed how EHRs evolved. METHODS Literature search based on "Electronic Health Record", "Medical Record", and ...