Digital technology in the healthcare industry acts as a trigger behind its transformative journey. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the major player in the healthcare ecosystem.
AIET (Artificial Intelligence & Emerging Technologies) in Medicine is helping the industry in identifying diseases, diagnoses, remote patient monitoring, clinical research & drug discovery, monitoring epidemics like the COVID-19 crisis, and many more.
AI/ML algorithms, IoT sensor-based technology, simulation technologies in medicine like AR/VR/MR, and Robotics, all are incessantly taking care of varied healthcare aspects, globally.
Let’s explore how AI along with multiple new-gen technologies is helping the healthcare sector actively and massively!
Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning
AI/ML business leaders have recognized the massive capabilities of technologies in medicine, and harnessing their fullest potential is their ultimate goal. As per one survey (March-April 2021) conducted by HIMSS,1/3rd of the total 2,743 US healthcare respondents emphasized that AI/ML were their topmost priority for the next 5 years.
This shows the massive impact of technology in the healthcare industry. AI-ML-powered predictive analytics help in disease detection & diagnosis, providing personalized treatment, AI-enabled artificial neural networks help in detecting cancer and other vital signs leading to timely treatment. In medical imaging, clinical trials, drug development, and related fields, AI-Ml technology is helping healthcare immensely!
Telemedicine
Telemedicine is a significant new medical technology, and especially during the pandemic, it has proved its mettle emphatically. Post-2020, there’s been a major shift in the healthcare practices that enable restricting the spread of corona infections, and other diseases. Telemedicine is of three types, viz. real-time interactive telemedicine, store-and-forward telemedicine, and remote patient monitoring telemedicine. The very digital technology provides healthcare the benefits of remote patient care, real-time virtual consultation, telePharmacy, teleradiology, teleNeurology, and so on. The telemedicine sector is expected to reach a massive figure of US $460 billion by 2030.
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Let’s see how AI transformative capabilities are helping the telemedicine industry the world over.
AR/VR/MR
New medical technology means new-gen digital technology that is capable of transforming the ways modern medicine is being practiced. These practices include computer-generated 3D graphics and digital imaging tools that give more power to the healthcare providers and medical team of doctors/surgeons for deep and accurate analysis of patients’ conditions.
Augmented Reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR), Mixed Reality (MR) technologies along with AI-ML digital imaging tools are transforming the sector in novel ways.
For example, healthcare teams can plan surgeries, therapies, and myriad treatment processes quite in advance, by using AR/VR/MR simulation tools. Not only this, they can even see the procedures and respective results much ahead in advance.
MR (Mixed Reality) tools can manage and control medical procedures & equipment remotely, and efficiently on time. These modern technologies in healthcare are picking trends gradually but on a consistent note.
Internet of Medical Things (IoMT)
IoMT (Internet-of-Medical-Things) is the combination of IoT(Internet-of-Things) and telehealth technologies and has massive use-cases. IoMT is the network of medical devices, healthcare infrastructures, and digital/web/mobile applications, connected over internet platforms. The market for IoMT (Internet-of-Medical-Things) is set to reach a massive US$6.2trillion by 2025. Globally, the healthcare industry is leveraging IoMT capabilities on a large scale. Telemedicine, the newest trend in the sector is greatly supported by IoT(internet-of-Things) and IoMT technologies.
Conclusion
The aforementioned digital technologies are becoming synonymous with healthcare trends and medical practices around the world. Without them, the healthcare industry cannot survive. AI/ML, IoT-enabled sensors, Blockchain, Robotics, and Analytics are varied other digital tools and technologies that are creating waves bringing revolutionary changes in the healthcare space.
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