Digital healthcare trends to watch in 2019
Healthcare trends in recent decades have been largely driven by innovations and disrup-tions in digital technology. And while health professionals, manufacturers, and physicians alike are always wary of readily adopting advancements so as not to risk patient health, there’s no denying that the future of health care is tied up with the advent of new tech-nologies.
Come 2019, there would be more widespread deployment of the Internet of Medical Things of IoMT, allowing for interconnected medical devices like wearables to link to the internet and provide key patient health information to specialists for processes such as ECG and EKG monitoring, blood pressure readings, and heart rate testing for cardiolo-gists. Before they grew by leaps and bounds this year, IoT and IoMT systems had already been adopted in almost 60 percent of healthcare operations in 2017.
AI or artificial intelligence will likewise figure more actively in healthcare this year. While it’s still in its infancy as far as deployment is concerned, the presence of chatbots in many health providers’ online customer service pages is making patient support more efficient and faster. Patients need only input certain data to gain real-time diagnoses, from pre-programmed data based on medical history to remote video calls with physicians. The same AI-powered technology is allowing for machine learning in the manufacturing of drugs and making drug discovery and delivery to the market speedier.
Finally, expect cloud computing in improved online storage, capacities, and Big Data, in general, to push healthcare organizations to develop and maintain a more secure record-keeping infrastructure. As this develops, expect regulations on electronic Protected Health Information (ePHI) and the HIPAA to relax a little, given the arrival of solid security systems to prevent any patient info leakage. In any case, cloud security systems have gone a long way and continue to evolve to offer tamper-proof solutions for telemedicine, medical apps, and the like.
Ian Weisberg, M.D., is a cardiac electro-physiology specialist based in Pensacola, Florida. He obtained his medical degree from Emory University School of Medicine and has been in practice for two decades. He com-pleted his Cardiac Electrophysiology Fellowship at the University of Chicago before having the distinction of being We Care Doctor of the Year Escambia County 2012 and 2014. For more healthcare-related reads, visit this blog.
Come 2019, there would be more widespread deployment of the Internet of Medical Things of IoMT, allowing for interconnected medical devices like wearables to link to the internet and provide key patient health information to specialists for processes such as ECG and EKG monitoring, blood pressure readings, and heart rate testing for cardiolo-gists. Before they grew by leaps and bounds this year, IoT and IoMT systems had already been adopted in almost 60 percent of healthcare operations in 2017.
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AI or artificial intelligence will likewise figure more actively in healthcare this year. While it’s still in its infancy as far as deployment is concerned, the presence of chatbots in many health providers’ online customer service pages is making patient support more efficient and faster. Patients need only input certain data to gain real-time diagnoses, from pre-programmed data based on medical history to remote video calls with physicians. The same AI-powered technology is allowing for machine learning in the manufacturing of drugs and making drug discovery and delivery to the market speedier.
Finally, expect cloud computing in improved online storage, capacities, and Big Data, in general, to push healthcare organizations to develop and maintain a more secure record-keeping infrastructure. As this develops, expect regulations on electronic Protected Health Information (ePHI) and the HIPAA to relax a little, given the arrival of solid security systems to prevent any patient info leakage. In any case, cloud security systems have gone a long way and continue to evolve to offer tamper-proof solutions for telemedicine, medical apps, and the like.
Ian Weisberg, M.D., is a cardiac electro-physiology specialist based in Pensacola, Florida. He obtained his medical degree from Emory University School of Medicine and has been in practice for two decades. He com-pleted his Cardiac Electrophysiology Fellowship at the University of Chicago before having the distinction of being We Care Doctor of the Year Escambia County 2012 and 2014. For more healthcare-related reads, visit this blog.
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