Feldman expects “critical progress in data integration will bring about major improvements in healthcare,” including enabling patients “access to their complete longitudinal health records on their phones.” 

Telehealth and virtual visits have become and will continue to be much more common in 2023, as patients like the convenience. 

Few people had heard about the synthetic messenger RNA genetic technology prior to the COVID-19 pandemic when this medical technology was used to create mRNA vaccines, which have been highly effective at reducing hospitalizations and deaths from the SARS-CoV-2 virus. 

Blood clots, leaking blood vessels, and organ damage all are possible outcomes of sepsis, the body’s extreme reaction to an infection. Each year in the United States, 1.7 million U.S. adults develop sepsis, and at least 350,000 either die in the hospital or are sent to hospice because of it.

Now the medication teplizumab delays onset of the condition by an average of two years — and sometimes by more than a decade, says Kevan Herold, MD, a principal investigator of the drug and an immunologist at Yale Medicine in New Haven, Connecticut.