Introduction
Skilled health technology has advanced and is still advancing due to the increased technological development. There are continually new technologies in the healthcare industry ranging from remote monitoring to artificial intelligence diagnostics everything is changing to enhance patient care and make it more accessible. As such, in this article, we shall closely examine and explore the emerging trends in Health Technology that are defining the future of practice.
Breakthrough 1: Wearable Technology
Wearable technology can be defined as any device that can gather data from the human body, and the smartwatches and fitness trackers have for instance taken the health and fitness tracking to another level. Portable fitness trackers can count steps, total daily caloric intake, and, in some cases, heart rate as well as track sleeping patterns. These devices also have motivation an incentive and reminder towards the achievement of fit and active lives.
Researchers now are pushing wearable technology to the next level. Devices such as smartwatches can in addition check and confirm indications of heart disease. According to the MobiHealthNews, the AliveCor’s KardiaBand, a smartwatch accessory, can identify the presence of a abnormal heartbeat called atrial fibrillation with 99% accuracy. Further, there is additional functionality integrated into the Apple Watch Series 4 allowing for an ECG test that detects atrial fibrillation as well as other heart ailments.
Breakthrough 2: While telemedicine has been defined in many and varied ways, remote monitoring of individuals has become a widely acceptable method for delivering care.
Telemedicine, the delivery of medical services through distance, is emerging, and this is as a result of technology development. Through telemedicine, patients can reach out to the doctors via images and video calls or even live chat. This is especially helpful to those who reside in rural end areas whereby even if they show up at a medical person after months due to no health facilities, this has helped them. According to a report from Grand View Research the telemedicine market is predicted to rise to $36.3bn by 2025.
Telemonitoring solutions, such as the one created by Hillrom previously known as Welch Allyn, allow several providers to closely oversee the subject’s condition from a distance. These systems can monitor all what concerns the human body starting with blood pressure and pulse, oxygen saturation and glucose levels. It also minimizes the number of readmissions to hospitals and enables the care givers to identify that a given patient is about to worsen, so they can quickly have him or her attended to appropriately.
Breakthrough 3: AI and Machine Learning in Diagnostic medicine and their role in Treatment
Today, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and machine learning are finding their ways into healthcare provision, diagnosis, and treatment in particular, due to the enhanced speed and precision that comes with the technology. For instance, Google’s DeepMind AI is well capable of diagnosing eye conditions such as diabetic retinopathy at a much better level than doctors. On the other hand, IBM Watson Health has advanced decision support solutions that can help doctors to create individual cancer therapy programmes.
This is one application made easier by AI, to be able to predict diseases before they make their grand entry. The disease prediction models are obtained through data collected from different sources including social networks and search engines. An example is BlueDot, a system that identified the emerging coronavirus globally weeks prior to WHO declaring it an emergency.
Breakthrough 4: la edición de genes y regenerativa
Sport science and regenerative medicine that focuses on the injured tissues and organs and growing new healthy ones has received recent breakthroughs that are making it real. A recent technique that is likely to yield boosts hopes for people who have sustained spinal cord injuries, Parkinson’s disease, or heart disorders is stem cell treatment. Researchers have also looked at 3D bioprinting to grow out entire human organs for transplant.
Il y a aussi la gene editing qui a beaucoup modifié l’approche de l’affection génétique. The state of the art technique that researchers use to alter some strands of the human DNA is CRISPR-Cas9. Scientific research conducted by Chinese scientists in 2018 has rowed taken humanity a step closer to a possible cure for AIDS when they used CRISPR-Cas9 to remove the virus, HIV from human cells.
Breakthrough 5: Advanced Medical Imaging
Modern diagnostic imaging technologies are allowing physicians to diagnose diseases in their early stages as well as to assess patients’ outcomes. For example, molecular imaging methods such as PET and SPECT can let doctors capture pictures showing the utilization of tissues and organs at the molecular level. These technologies are essential in determining diseases such as cancer, Alzheimer’s and heart diseases.
Another major advancement in the medical imaging is that of the concept of the use of ultrasound contrast agents that helps in the amelioration of quality of ultrasound images. Such agents, as the Lumason from Bracco Diagnostics, can help doctors to identify liver lesion, heart function, or other conditions with higher precision.
Conclusion
Based on the advances in health technology today, healthcare has a promising future. Smartwears, teleconsultations, artificial intelligence, and machine learning, stem cell and regenerative medicine, and high-end medical imagining are already transforming the ways patients receive care and are positively leading to tailored, efficient, and convenient care. As for this, one can only guess as to what great progress will be accomplished in the following years with further developments of technologies.
