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Daniel Kraft, MD, on Predicting the Future of Technology and Healthcare — and Helping to Create It
Prescription medications are fairly controversial these days — cost, insurance coverage, efficacy, and too often, medications are dosed incorrectly, cause toxic side effects or just don’t work. But what if we could change how we prescribe drugs, what if there was a 3D printer that could design pills that adapt to an individual’s needs, and maybe print-on-demand the medications tailored to the patient?
Or what if there was a real-world device that worked like the diagnostic Tricorder we imagined watching Star Trek?
How about AI-infused antiviral discoveries and laboratory-level diagnostic tools accessible via your smartphone?
These ideas and technologies, and many more, are paving the way to a more democratized, connected and data-driven future of medicine, and personalized care.
And this is the world where Dr. Daniel Kraft thrives.
Daniel is a Stanford and Harvard trained physician-scientist with more than 25 years of experience in clinical practice, biomedical research, and innovation. He is Founder and Chair…
