Analysis of Healthcare Trends and New Technology in Healthcare

This report examines the evolving landscape of healthcare, focusing on the impact of new technologies such as robotics and wearable devices. It highlights the paradigm shift driven by advancements in big data, mobility, and cloud computing, which are changing the dynamics between hospitals, researchers, doctors, and patients. The report discusses the effectiveness of tools like Fitbits in tracking patient health metrics and the rise of telemedicine, offering remote access to medication and healthcare services. It also explores the role of robotics in surgery and the potential of nanotechnology in cancer detection. The report emphasizes the increasing demand for healthcare IT and the importance of next-generation wearables in enhancing patient wellness and providing valuable health data. The analysis references a HIMSS meeting that focused on the future of healthcare in terms of robots and wearables, along with several academic sources that support the discussed trends and technologies.

Healthcare Trends and New Technology
A high level meeting was held at Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society
(HIMSS) among investors, entrepreneurs and physicians recently that focused on the future of
the healthcare in terms of robots and wearable.
Background Information
A paradigm shift in technology brought about by Big Data, mobility, security and cloud
computing, has rapidly transformed the society and created new possibilities in healthcare sector.
These new possibilities are changing the dynamics of the hospitals, researchers, doctors and
patients. This massive advancement in the field of technology is enabling better diagnosis and
prognosis by the application of robots and wearables because the nanotechnology is
revolutionizing the entire healthcare by providing the customers the tools to take care of
themselves (Liao, Emanuel, & Navathe, 2016).
Importance of Topic
The tools such as Fitbit are proving to be highly effective by allowing the customers to track
their physical activities, sleep patterns, heart beats, blood pressure as well as intake of calorie.
The remote monitoring of healthcare and telemedicine have now entered into the retail spaces
and therefore, some dedicated mobile apps are providing their services by putting the healthcare
into the hands of the patients. The healthcare concern is even allowing more sophisticated
devices and much advanced technologies in order to prevent the more serious diseases. In this
regard, wearable devices are playing crucial role in processing actionable raw data from patients
to the doctors. Recently, a Google X Lab came ahead with a project in which nanotechnology
will be used to detect cancer (O’Hara, Stock & Davies, 2016). Apart from that, new technology

is making possible the robotic-assisted surgery that is boosting the skills of the surgeon and even
could perform the operation from continents away. Also, DNA analysis has become a
revolutionary step in the field of medical science.
How it is related
The telemedicine as is discussed in the article, has a lot of benefits in terms of immediate remote
access to medication in adverse life threatening circumstances. For example, if somebody
develops an allergic reaction at some place then a drug dispensing solution can be administered
through video conferencing. As per a report given by National Centre for Policy Analysis,
around 7 million people would be utilizing Tele-health services by the end of 2018. As far as
Robotics is concerned, its precision and flexibility is efficiently allowing the doctors or surgeons
to perform complex surgeries. In this regard, the intelligence-based systems have demonstrated
positive results in the areas of joint replacement, behavioral health, spinal surgery, brain surgery
or in the treatment of cancer. The way healthcare industry is achieving advancements, there is
growing demand to make healthcare IT to make favorite child of Technological Innovation (Lee
& Kim, 2016).
Response to the Article
I agree that the next-generation wearables and the use of sensors is going to make
communication to enhance the wellness of the people. The use of wearables is going to make
their users more responsible and sensitive towards their health as they would remind them to take
activities. As the patient-generated health data will be huge, so it would be processed in a much
productive way.

The following link is the source of the above news article:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/bluesky/originals/chi-himss-conference-robots-wearables-bsi-
20150415-story.html
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References
Lee, K. & Kim, J. (2016). Artificial Intelligence Technology Trends and IBM Watson
References in the Medical Field. Korean Medical Education Review, 18(2), 51-57.
http://dx.doi.org/10.17496/kmer.2016.18.2.51
Liao, J., Emanuel, E., & Navathe, A. (2016). Six health care trends that will reshape the patient-
provider dynamic. Healthcare, 4(3), 148-150. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.hjdsi.2016.06.006
O’Hara, D., Stock, S. E., & Davies, D. K. (2016). Trends in Using Technology to Achieve Better
Health Outcomes. In Health Care for People with Intellectual and Developmental
Disabilities across the Lifespan (pp. 2055-2062). Springer International Publishing