Healthons: errorless healthcare with bionic hugs and no need for quality control

Area of Science:

• Biomedical Engineering
• Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare
• Preventive Medicine

Background:

• Current healthcare systems are episodic and reactive, failing to provide continuous, proactive care.
• The need for errorless, invisible, and infrastructure-free healthcare necessitates a paradigm shift.
• Existing healthcare delivery models are insufficient for achieving optimal health outcomes.

Purpose of the Study:

• To propose a transition from traditional healthcare to an intelligent and extelligent health environment.
• To introduce Intelligent Caring Creatures (ICCs) composed of healthons as a solution for errorless healthcare.
• To identify and discuss unsolved problems in healthcare that hinder the implementation of advanced health solutions.

Main Methods:

• Conceptualizing healthons as tools integrating prevention, diagnosis, and treatment.
• Utilizing continuous monitoring and analysis of vital signs and biochemistry.
• Developing ICCs with multidimensional reasoning capabilities based on medical knowledge, consumer data, and moral values.

Main Results:

• Healthons offer adaptability, flexibility, and multidimensional reasoning for errorless health.
• ICCs can perform optimal actions by integrating medical knowledge, consumer's emotional, physiological, and genetic data, and moral values.
• The paper outlines critical unsolved problems in transitioning to an ICC-based intelligent health environment.

Conclusions:

• Errorless healthcare is achievable through intelligent and extelligent health environments.
• Intelligent Caring Creatures (ICCs) represent a novel approach to continuous, personalized, and errorless health management.
• Addressing identified unsolved problems is crucial for realizing the potential of advanced healthcare solutions.