Top 10 Technologies That Will Impact Healthcare in Future

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Top 10 Technologies That Will Impact Healthcare
in Future
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• There has been an acute shortage of skilled
  professionals in healthcare and the gap continues
  to grow. The WHO estimates that about 4.3 million
  physicians, nurses and other health professionals
  are required to fill the gap globally. In a
  scenario such as this, healthcare personnel will
  need the help of technology to keep up with the
  increasing demand for medical care. Thankfully,
  new technologies are emerging and evolving to aid
  skilled healthcare workers to serve patients in
  better ways. Here are a few that promise to
  impact healthcare in the future
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• 1. Artificial Intelligence (AI)
• AI can process medical records, analyze medical
  tests, predict healthcare diagnoses, design
  treatment plans for conditions or help predict
  and create drugs faster than healthcare
  professionals. Consumer health applications are
  already using AI to help people manage a healthy
  lifestyle through monitoring equipment and sensor
  based medical devices. In India, AI in the
  healthcare space is expected to be worth about
  INR 431 billion by the year 2012 and may reach a
  doctor-patient ratio of 6.91,000 by 2023.
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• 2. Virtual Reality (VR)
• Medical training, medical care, disease
  awareness, and medical campaigns have already
  found a use for VR technologies. Medical students
  can view the human body from various angles and
  are being trained to perform surgical procedures
  using VR. VR is also being used to treat victims
  of stroke, in psychiatry, pain management,
  physical therapy, and telemedicine support.
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• 3. Augmented Reality (AR)
• The difference between VR and AR lies in the fact
  that patients dont lose touch with reality and
  AR puts information into eyesight quickly.
  Surgeons and medical students can use it to
  prepare themselves well for real-life operations.
  It can improve access to surgery, medical care,
  help in medical training, lower healthcare costs,
  assist physicians, empower patients to
  self-diagnose, and help enhance psychotherapy and
  physiotherapy.
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• 4. Healthcare Trackers, Wearables and Sensors
• Self-health tracking is catching on as a trend in
  the healthcare industry, and tech applications,
  wearable devices, and sensors are allowing people
  to monitor and manage their health like never
  before. Data tracked by these devices can further
  be used by physicians to diagnose and treat
  patients better. Physicians and nurses can use
  wearables to monitor patients at regular
  intervals to increase efficiency and lower time
  to get health data. The FDA in 2017 approved a
  pill with a sensor, the first of its kind that
  can track whether patients have swallowed it.
  The sensor transmits information to a mobile app
  via a wearable patch.
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• 5. Genome Sequencing
• According to a report published in the journal
  PloS Biology, researchers say that by 2025,
  between 100 million and 2 billion human genomes
  may have been sequenced. This may help genomics
  bring personalized drugs, and individualized
  treatments and DNA-based targeted treatments to
  healthcare. The costs for genome sequencing are
  declining rapidly, which makes it possible to
  sequence the whole genome of a person and use the
  information to treat conditions.
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• 6. Nanotechnology
• In healthcare, nanotechnology can help in the
  development of drug delivery systems, and aid in
  various biomedical applications. These
  applications can significantly improve the
  diagnosis and treatment of diseases, illness,
  injury, and any other physical and mental
  disorders. It also has other uses like fitness
  monitoring, diagnosis, and prevention of
  diseases. It can enable diagnosis at a cellular
  as well as sub-cellular level with
  high-performance sensors and enhanced imaging
  techniques.

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• 7. Robotics
• Robots can help in filling in for medical
  personnel for monotonous and routine tasks.
  Robotic medical assistants can help monitoring of
  vital statistics of several patients at once and
  alert physicians when they need help. They assist
  in surgery, are used to disinfect rooms, take
  blood samples, replace human workers, carry
  meals, ride elevators and help in physical
  therapy, personal care, and socialization, which
  will help Impact Healthcare in Future.
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• 8. 3D-printing
• 3D-printing technology can help in reducing
  healthcare costs and is set to revolutionize the
  healthcare industry. It can aid in the
  development of personalized prosthetics that can
  be customized for each user. It can be used in
  the fields of bio printing and tissue
  engineering, like building organoids with stem
  cells and help in replacing whole organs. It can
  also be used to create 3d-printed skin for burn
  victims, by using biological ink containing human
  plasma as well as material extracts in half an
  hour.
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• 9. Big Data for Medical Records
• Big data taken from various sources like
  electronic health records (EHRs), genomic
  sequencing, medical imaging, payor records,
  medical devices, pharmaceutical research, and
  wearables can be used for decision making. With
  technological improvements, big data is being
  converted to useful and actionable information
  and be used by providers, caregivers, and health
  administrators to make better medical and
  financial decisions.
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• 10. Blockchain
• Blockchain technology enables the management of
  patient data and helps in tracking drugs through
  supply chains. By this, it can solve the
  healthcare industrys problems like
  inefficiencies, errors, bureaucracy, and high
  administrative costs, with just one single
  record, that doesnt differ across databases. It
  allows for a transparent, peer-managed, secure
  data tracking across many devices. The use of
  blockchain can completely transform business
  models, processes and information flow in
  healthcare.
• Digital technologies are rapidly shaping the
  future of healthcare and to keep up with them,
  the industry must be up to date with the latest
  developments in technology to Impact Healthcare
  in Future.
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