Technology and medicine have gone hand and hand for many years. Constant advances in pharmaceuticals and the medical field have rescued millions of lives and enhanced many others. As the years pass by and new technology in health care continues to improve, there is no telling what medical advances will come next. Here we have rounded up the top new medical technologies.
Remote Patient Monitoring
Thanks largely to remote patient monitoring (RPM), physicians are now able to know what is going on with a patient without physically being nearby. There are a number of benefits to RPM including better patient outcomes, faster response time as well as significant cost reductions over time. In actual fact, RPM goes hand in hand with telemedicine in terms of reducing the need for patient travel and diminishing everyone’s exposure.
Mixed Reality Opens New Avenues For Medical Education
Augmented, virtual, and mixed reality are all types of technologies that open up new worlds for the human senses. While the difference between these technologies may seem arbitrary at first, it greatly determines how they could be utilised in health care.
While AR allows users the opportunity to see the real world and projects digital information onto the existing environment, VR shuts out everything else completely and also provides an entire simulation. Mixed reality can interact with the world while projecting information into it.
Thus, AR can be used by surgeons for projecting potentially life-saving information into their eyesight during operations, VR can be used in psychiatry to treat phobias efficiently, and mixed reality is able to bring revolutionary novelties to medical education, or pre-operative surgical planning, among others.
Next Generation Of mRNA Vaccinology
Advancements in the generation, purification and cellular delivery of RNA have allowed for the development of mRNA vaccines across a broad array of applications, such as cancer and Zika virus infection.
The technology is cost effective and relatively simple to manufacture and elicits immunity in a novel way. Furthermore, the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic demonstrated that the world needed the rapid development of a vaccine that was deployable around the globe.
Owing to previous research that laid the groundwork for this technology, an effective COVID-19 vaccine was developed, produced, approved and deployed in less than a year. This landscape-changing technology has the potential to be used to manage some of health care’s most challenging diseases quickly and efficiently.
Telemedicine
Telemedicine is a very important innovation that is now practised in many countries worldwide owing to pandemic constraints on public travel. With this technology, clinical practitioners can see patients virtually so avoiding personal contact, while still having the ability to diagnose and treat patients for a myriad of illnesses. It’s the medical equivalent of playing at ZAR Casino online rather than heading to a land based venue. The saving of time and money has made this a very attractive choice for both patient and practitioner. This trend seems not likely to die down soon.
3D Printing
3D printers have quickly become one of the hottest technologies on the market. In health care, these game-changing printers can be utilised to create implants and even joints to be used during surgery. 3D-printed prosthetics are growing in popularity as they are entirely bespoke, with the digital functionalities allowing them to match an individual’s measurements down to the millimetre. The allows for unprecedent levels of comfort and mobility.
