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. Image source: blog-idcuk.com AI or artificial intelligence will likewise figure more actively in healthcare this yea...