Bertalan Meskó
World leading thinker and keynote speaker in digital health technologies
Dr. Bertalan Meskó, PhD is The Medical Futurist and the Director of The Medical Futurist Institute analyzing how science fiction technologies can become a reality in medicine and healthcare. A stylish healthcare keynote speaker known for his customized keynote presentations.
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About Dr. Bertalan Meskó
Dr. Bertalan Meskó, PhD is The Medical Futurist and the Director of The Medical Futurist Institute analyzing how science fiction technologies can become reality in medicine and healthcare globally. As a geek physician with a PhD in genomics, he is also an Amazon Top 100 author and a Private Professor at Semmelweis Medical School, Budapest, Hungary.
With 500+ presentations including courses at Harvard, Stanford and Yale Universities, Singularity University’s Futuremed course at NASA Ames campus and organizations including the 10 biggest pharmaceutical companies, he is one of the top voices globally on healthcare technology.
Dr. Meskó was featured by dozens of top publications, including CNN, the World Health Organization, National Geographic, Forbes, TIME magazine, BBC, and the New York Times. He publishes his analyses regularly on medicalfuturist.com.
His research focuses on the role of artificial intelligence in medicine and healthcare; as well as digital health technologies’ impact on the future of care.
He is a Certified Superforecaster for Good Judgment, Inc.
Bertalan Meskó's 2025 Talks & Topics
In this keynote, Healthcare needs a trip to Mars, Bertalan argue that we need to create a healthcare system that would even keep an astronaut on Mars alive. We need to use our digital health technologies to make patients the point of care, to let them access their own data, to involve augmented algorithms to help make decisions on the go. That’s the only way that we can bring healthcare into the 21st century.
Key messages:
- Patient centricity and design
- The patient perspective
- Future of healthcare
Ideal length: 20-45 minutes
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Generative AI has taken the attention of healthcare by force showing how a breakthrough technology can contribute to care, shape how physicians practice medicine and how patients can access information like never before. This narrative is a deep-dive into generative AI providing a crystal-clear image about what we can expect from ChatGPT-like tools.
Key messages:
- Generative AI is a breakthrough
- How ChatGPT can contribute to care
- How to prepare to work with generative AI
Ideal length: 20-45 minutes
See what it feels like to meet science fiction in your life and learn to predict which technologies will shape your industry through one simple habit: asking the what if question.
Key messages:
- Foresight
- The near future of healthcare
- Practical methods for meeting science fiction
Ideal length: 20-45 minutes
Digital health is the cultural transformation that brings healthcare to the 21st century. Why don’t you take charge and become the hero to make it happen?
Key messages:
- The impact of technologies on the individual
- The patient perspective
- What can the average consumer do to improve
healthcare
Ideal length: 20-45 minutes
It is high time to describe how artificial intelligence will impact medicine and healthcare; why this change is inevitable and what we should do to prepare for working and living with it. This narrative aims to transform uncertainties regarding A.I. into a productive exchange of knowledge between humans and machines. A real deep dive.
Key messages:
- Levels, methods and a general understand of A.I.
- The dangers and the possibilities
- A digestible path for A.I. in healthcare
Ideal length: 30-60 minutes
Coronavirus has shattered our world and changed nearly all aspects of our lives. Life will never be the same after COVID-19. Healthcare has also been changed forever. Digital health products have played an important role in the COVID-19 response. Technologies and concepts from telemedicine through A.I. monitoring to network medicine, all came together in an attempt to try to know, understand and forecast the virus.
Key messages:
- The pandemic’s impact on digital health
- The cultural transformation that is lagging behind
- The new norm after the pandemic
Ideal length: 20-40 minutes
Bertalan Meskó's Latest Books
The Guide to the Future of Medicine: Technology AND The Human Touch
A few short years ago, it would have been hard to imagine that exoskeletons could enable paralyzed people to walk again; that billions of people would rely on social media for information; and that supercomputers would be key players in medical decision-making. Perhaps more than in any other field, technology has transformed medicine and healthcare in ways that a mere decade ago would have sounded like pure science fiction.
From his unique vantage as a trained physician, researcher, and The Medical Futurist, Dr. Bertalan Mesko examines these developments and the many more down the pipeline. His aim is to assess how the hand of technology can continue to provide the dose of humanity that is crucial to effective healthcare. The Guide to the Future of Medicine: Technology and the Human Touch is his incisive, illuminating roundup of the technologies and trends that will shape the future of medicine.
Patients, medical professionals, and any healthcare stakeholder will find an eye opening, reassuring roadmap to tomorrow’s potential in this accessible and fact-based book. By preparing for the inevitable waves of change, you can make informed decisions about how technology will shape your own well-being.
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