Healthcare will be Powered by Visual Technologies in the Near Future

When it comes to healthcare, technology has been playing a critical role, not only as a convenience tool but also in the form of cost-effective, life-saving innovations. With the healthcare industry growing by leaps and bounds in recent years, there have been significant innovations and technological advancements transforming the sector for better. Notably, the visual technologies and communications within the sector have become an integral part of modern medical technologies, paving the way for an improved and enhanced healthcare experience. No doubt, the future of healthcare will be patient-centric, doctor-directed, and powered by visual technologies.

Visual Technologies in Healthcare

Healthcare, over the next decades, is being predicted to become more and more digitized. Large swaths of personal visual data would be captured with the aid of artificial intelligence and automation software to provide precision care. Visual data from modern technologies such as X-rays, ultrasound, MRI, 3D, CT scans, and more help clinicians capture, analyze, and process information for efficient healthcare delivery. Medical imaging has evolved a lot in recent years, empowering clinicians to visualize and assess the human body with precision. Recent advances in computerization, visual sensors, and other visual technological innovations are giving rise to new waves of innovation in visual imaging processes such as X-rays and MRIs. Visual technologies are expected to traverse a patient’s journey from diagnosis and treatment to continual aftercare and prevention.

AI and Diagnostic Imaging

Artificial intelligence and computer vision are indeed powerful emerging trends of future healthcare, which are poised to shape the ways in which visual technologies will improve upon the healthcare arena over the coming decades. Medical imaging that was dominated in the past years has had major limitations including complex workflows, strict patient requirements, and expensive imaging facility solutions. However, with the innovations in visual technologies and AI, there has been a massive shift in medical imaging from complex calibrated machinery to flexible, multi-sensor, self-correcting devices. Computer vision-enabled video data capture and live imaging with smaller sensors and ingestible cameras can make diagnostics and treatment more feasible and efficient for a wide range of patients. This means that the future of diagnostic imaging will witness easy-to-use devices having a simpler imaging process and requiring lesser expertise and less complexity, thus facilitating quicker workflows and lower costs.

The Emergence of Telehealth

Telehealth is all about using digital information and communication technologies to access healthcare services remotely. Telemedicine, in recent years, has made medical diagnostic processes more easily accessible via virtual appointments that allow medical practitioners to easily communicate with patients, even when they are far away after treatment. The telehealth and visual technologies will facilitate improved communications between patients and physicians by setting up doctor visits over phone or computer via video conference or using visual diagnostics to gain specific medical expertise.

The biggest opportunity in using visual technologies in telemedicine is that it will be the key to collect patient data and vitals seamlessly. In the near future, AI powered screening technologies will be integrated into telemedicine systems so that physicians can pre-screen the vitals via remote cameras, thus delivering extensive efficiencies and hopefully enhanced health benefits for the patients.

With the increasing digitalization in healthcare, electronic medical records and digital whiteboards are harnessing the power of artificial intelligence and data analytics to transform healthcare for better. Interactive Digital Whiteboards can be integrated with real-time location services in hospitals, providing patients with daily appointments, scheduled tests, and medicines.

Visual IoT Technology in Healthcare

Healthcare systems are directed towards transforming into a data-driven, patient-centric model that allows improved collaborative and personalized care services. As a result, there is a growing demand for smart and connected care within health systems in order to deliver better clinicians and patient care experiences. Moreover, seamless data capture, sharing, and analysis would facilitate affordable quality healthcare, all of which are centered towards improved efficiency in patient care. Digital and visual technologies are making this transformation possible through IoT devices and Artificial Intelligence. Visual IoT technologies deployed with AI and ML can help empower medical practitioners and consumers in managing their health through connected devices and services. As a result, latest advances in the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) and AI are bringing in new wave of innovations into healthcare for improving health management further ahead, thus paving the way for smarter healthcare services in future.

The projected growth and business opportunities within the healthcare sector in terms of technology have brought in tremendous investment possibilities, especially in visual technologies across diagnosis, treatment, preventive care, and continuing care sectors. No doubt, visual technologies today are gearing up to power the healthcare transformation of the future providing deep implications for personalized, patient-centric healthcare. To cope with the changing trends in technology, it is important that the healthcare industry focuses on employing well-trained and efficient healthcare professionals. IIHMR, Delhi, has been producing quality and trained healthcare professionals, who are equipped with all the technical and industry knowledge to tackle the new-age developments.  As a leading healthcare institution, IIHMR has been preparing students for the modern healthcare space, offering courses imbibed with both academic and technical knowledge and training to enables the aspirants to deliver to the future healthcare trends and demands.

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