Top Technology Trends in the Healthcare Industry in 2021

Last updated on June 23rd, 2022 at 04:25 am

Health is wealth is a common saying that we have been hearing from our ancestors for years. The importance of health care is enhanced because of the COVID-19 pandemic that has hit the entire world, and is still prevailing in 2021. To stop this virus from spreading across the world, technology in the healthcare industry is playing a significant role. It is helping the medical staff to treat the patients with more responsibility. As the pandemic has restricted our lives to stay at home and work from home so the technology trends are also helping people to take medical assistance while staying at home. The treatments that were considered very difficult and we couldn’t imagine taking them at home have become very convenient. Let’s have a look at top technology trends in the healthcare industry in 2021.

mHealth Trends

mHealth relates to mobile health. Mobile health is the introduction of mobile services in healthcare. This technology was introduced to help people from remote areas that have no access to modern health facilities. The people who can’t come to far-off places can easily take an appointment with the doctor over the phone. In 2021, this service is more demanded because of the pandemic when people that are diagnosed with COVID 19 are asked to quarantine. These people take medical assistance from doctors over the phone.  Due to such a massive demand for Mhealth services, many mobile apps are being developed for patient assistance.  

Real-Time Diagnosis with Healthcare Apps

At present, people are very conscious about developing intelligence about healthcare facilities. They track their blood pressure, pulse rate, oxygen level, and the number of steps that they take every day to keep themselves healthy. To get all their desired results, many advanced applications are being developed in the healthcare industry..

• These applications provide information with 100 percent accuracy.
• They provide all the data in a readable form.
• They not only provide health data but also interpret the data and provide a statistical analysis of each indicator.
• They also compare the data with the basic standards of health.
• They provide the information to enhance the health quality.

The healthcare applications work at their best with the help of the internet of things.

Internet of Things

Technology is very important in improving the quality of healthcare information so that precise and accurate analysis can be done. IoT plays an important role here. IoT is an array of installed technologies and transducers. These technologies collaborate to make patient’s lives more comfortable. These healthcare technologies resulted in the innovations like:

Sticking plaster

Sticking plaster can be used to monitor cardiac frequency, arterial pressure, body temperature, and desiccation rate.

Inner Soles

Inner soles are the trackers that help to track arterial pressure and cardiac frequency.

These two devices are available in the market easily with the growing trend of technology in the healthcare industry. Many apps are used to retrieve data from these devices. Moreover, these apps also analyze the data and make a diagnosis for the patients that are sent to the doctor in case of emergency.

Use of Big Data

This is a significant aspect of the healthcare industry. The database of medicine helps in the accurate analysis of the diagnosis of the disease and further helps in the prediction of health problems. Let’s have a look at an application that can help in the medical appointment process. The large database helps to organize medical appointments and helps to arrange the potential doctors according to the biggest flow of patient problems. This information further helps the medical institutions to reap more profit.

Electronic Health Record

The most significant trend in healthcare is Electronic Health Record. It gives the consulting physician to take access to client data such as lethal disease, cardiac wave frequencies, oxygen saturations, and former prescriptions. The EHR assists the doctors and patients to get more productive results and good care. It does not require any papers of prescription and diagnosis to be taken to the doctor on appointment.

Blockchain

Taking care of pharma records is vital because if the data is stolen or misled, it can result in wrong information that is dangerous for human life. EBR software is the solution to this problem as it eradicates the possibility of errors in record maintenance for all sized pharmaceutical manufacturers. It is important in maintaining error-free electronic records and helps in the centralization of the data for both private and public sectors. In this technology, a singular secure protocol is used for data security and the faster transfer of data when required. Blockchain technology is growing at a faster speed and all those healthcare app developers that are not using this technology are compelled to use it.

Artificial Intelligence

This term was used in fiction stories previously but now it has turned into reality. It is widely used in mobile applications and it has increased its functionality. Artificial Intelligence is used to diagnose the disease of the patient accurately while retrieving data from the patient’s electronic health record. Its analysis includes all the medical information, previous diagnoses to solve the health problems of the patients. Many mobile applications are including AI in their apps. It enhances medical analytical skills and increases the functionality of the mobile. Many big corporations are investing their capital to upgrade Artificial intelligence.

Augmented Reality 

Augmented Reality technology is helping the existing world to show digital information in the present medical environment. Augmented reality has transformed the world in every way. In many ways, Augmented reality transforms the virtual content in the form of digital imagery and sounds that are used in videos and 3D models. AR works with different computer components like cameras and display devices. It is expected that in 2021, augmented reality will assist doctors and patients to solve medical problems. It helps to keep the smartphones in the body of the patients to check the organ functions like blood-vascular and respiratory systems, etc.

Wrapping Up

These technology trends in healthcare can help the masses to upgrade medical facilities in 2021. Moreover, it can help to educate the people regarding the pandemic. Medical software and applications are making people aware of new medical treatments and innovations so let’s start using these technologies to combat lethal diseases and pandemics.