3. Nanomedicine
This may still sound like sci-fi, but nanotech is slowly entering our daily life. By the end of 2021, fantastic news spread around the globe: scientists have created tiny organic robots (so-called xenobots) that are able to self-replicate. So it’s safe to assume that 2024 can bring a bunch of revolutionary tidings in the field of nanomedicine. The nanomedicine industry offers enormous potential and welcomes early investors.
If you’re wondering what nanomedicine is, here is a short definition: it’s all about the use of nanoscale (microscopically tiny) materials and objects, such as biocompatible nanoparticles, nanoelectronic devices, or even nanorobots (wow!) for specific medical purposes and manipulations, such as diagnosis or treatment of living organisms.
For example, it can be used as a potential hunter for cancer cells or viruses, which requires a group of nanorobots to be injected into a human’s blood vessels.
This technology is expected to successfully fight back many genetic, oncologic, or auto-immune diseases on a cellular level, including tumors, arthritis, and others (or even become an ultimate solution to them).
4. Internet of Medical Things (IoMT)
Although the IoMT is not a new thing in 2023, this sector will grow exponentially in the coming years. This industry involves plenty of digital health trends, and each of them offers excellent uses to healthcare specialists, with $ billions saved in return.
There are many companies providing IoMT solutions, including TATEEDA GLOBAL, which can help you design and tune your IoMT system with the help of sophisticated custom software. If you’re looking for a partner in developing custom IoMT solutions, please feel free to get in touch with us!
Wearables and Mobile Apps in Medical Practice
Remote health monitoring and wellness apps are on the rise and will keep booming in 2023. If you visit GooglePlay or iTunes catalogs, you’ll find a good few professional (and myriads of semi-professional) healthcare and wellness mobile apps.
Some of those mobile apps can synchronize with wearables, such as pulsometers or fitness trackers, to use data collected through the sensors placed on your body to report or analyze your health conditions, such as pulse, body temperature, blood pressure, and other metrics.
TATEEDA GLOBAL, for example, has recently created an iOS/Android tablet application that provides physicians with instant access to ECG data and reports generated by devices with superior arrhythmia detection.
Smart autonomous devices in healthcare
Autonomous nursing robots or self-moving smart devices can greatly support medical staff by reducing their sanitation-related or supply management chores.
Different kinds of robots can work in various hospital-based locations and positions, which protects human employees from being exposed to infection risks or burnout due to the immense strain placed on many US hospitals flooded by COVID-19 patients.
For example, robot nurses have been used by an Italian hospital during a severe COVID-19 outbreak. Those smart helpers were used for remote monitoring of blood pressure and oxygen saturation levels for patients, as those are crucially important parameters of their current health condition. Those levels might drop in a matter of minutes, with the patient requiring immediate assistance. In this way, the need for nurses to personally visit patients was significantly reduced.