It is time to move from reactive sick-care to proactive healthcare according to Healthcare Futurist Koen Kas. This change in approach has fostered technological advancements.

These are the top five trends in HealthTech in the coming year:

• Telehealth:

One challenge of healthcare is geographical accessibility, which is now overcome with remote monitoring and telehealth. With these technologies, healthcare practitioners can provide their services anywhere without having to meet patients in person.

Doctors can make recommendations and submit prescription requests. Augmenting this with AR and VR can bring the doctor’s room to patients’ homes. This makes the patients comfortable without leaving their home. Patients can look forward to faster diagnosis and treatment. Doctors can optimize and prepare for the patient even before his arrival.

Patients can look forward to faster diagnosis and treatment, while doctors can optimize their time and prepare for the patient even before arrival.

• Immersive Learning:

Now extended reality is no longer restricted to making video games and CGI for movies. It has helped to develop learning and workplace training. In the healthcare industry, immersive tools help healthcare practitioners to improve their skills without any risk. Learning anatomy can be simplified and doctors can perfect tough procedures in a safe space.

• Virtual Reality:

Imaging capacities of VR have been used innovatively in medical science. Some patients cannot be anesthetized due to their age and health issues. For such patients, hospitals are employing VR headsets that are fitted with immersive reality, which distracts patients from the pain.

• Artificial Intelligence:

Quite often, there can be a lag in disease diagnosis. AI reduces this manifold through deep learning and image detection. Thus, doctors can spend more time on treatment rather than handling automatable tasks. AI has now become accurate in its diagnosis. It also increases data protection through firewalls, authentication, encryption and the prediction of unusual behavior.

• Genomic Advancements:

Genomics is important to detect genetic disorders early and this can improve the quality of life for patients. VR and AR help researchers view these complex structures in a 3D format. With even simple tools such as headsets, they can interact with their data in a new form. With the help of VR, you can walk through the genes, examining them part-by-part and detecting interactions.