The U.S. Health Care Industry is facing challenging times. In the recent analysis from the government, at least $3.2 trillion is spent on the healthcare sector. This means that the government is in a tight spot and might be facing deficits, resulting in lowering health care services for the citizens.
With these challenges, many companies are developing different innovations and solutions to address such healthcare concerns. Let’s evaluate five of the most outstanding and revolutionary tech innovations today in the healthcare industry.
1. Virtual Reality Training
In the latest reports from authorities, it is shown that the United States right now needs about 96,000 more doctors just to meet the needs of the current healthcare sector. With the education for doctors getting more rigorous, expensive and time-consuming, there has to be a better way to their formal education. There should be a revamp of how these doctors get their training.
One of those innovative ideas to answer this need are the 3D training tools from 3D4Medical. The objective of the company is to offer real-time education for doctors through 3D machines and virtual reality. There are a lot of issues, concerns, and challenges about this so far, but it’s good to know that augmented reality offers excellent promise for reformatting doctors’ education.
2. Digital Access to Client Files
Did you know that right now only less than 10% of hospitals have digitized their documents? Healthcare in the United States still communicates via the traditional pen and paper, and that leaves a lot of gap for clients to access their files and doctors to retrieve their patients’ documents.
This problem is something that companies like ReferralMD are trying to solve. What these companies do is integrate all the data of all EMR systems, such as Epic, Cerner, and AllScripts, and digitalize the entire accessing process, reducing the leakage of referrals. This strategy will ensure that the health care system can save millions of dollars that would’ve been spent on retrieving lost data.
3. The Miraculous Head Transplant
A neurosurgeon from Italy, Sergio Canavero, is planning to do the first ever human head transplant this year. This is an ambitious feat, knowing that there has still not been any successful animal transplant that has a long-term survival, Canavero is up to the challenge. He prepares himself by using a specialized blade and polyethylene glycol for the procedure. This glycol is a polymer commonly used in medicine, as well as in skin cream and shingles cream. With this new strategy, Dr. Canavero will attempt a spinal cord nerve procedure that no one has ever done before.
4. The Qualcomm Tricorder Advancement
This new advancement will answer one of the most significant challenges in the practice of medicine: diagnosing health conditions that won’t take a long time. With this technology, we now have devices that can help doctors determine the illnesses, ailments, and diseases of patients in hours instead of days.
5. Advanced Blood Perfusion System
Cardiac Transplantation has long been the recourse of many people with moderate and severe heart failure. People who are suffering the most severe symptoms of this condition despite maximum medical intervention will now enjoy the promise of warm perfusion, which can keep the lungs “breathing” and the hearts “beating” for a longer time, reducing damage to the organs.
The current technology right now involves preserving the organs in a cold solution inside coolers, which can damage the organs and may even render them unusable. The Warm Perfusion technology prevents this from happening and will give the doctors an ample time to assess the treatment of the organs. The more time doctors have, the fewer the errors. The technology promised in warm perfusion will be able to help doctors reduce fatal errors in operations.
The future of healthcare in the United States is full of promise. With the new technologies we listed above, the time where we don’t have to worry about our health is coming sooner than we think.
