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In technology 2025 we present technologies that will be pertinent to health care in 2025. Many technology may have been around us for some years but had little impact to date while other may progress more rapidly from development or discovery to impacting on patient care. Let's look to some examples of optics related to the healthcare sector and how it may look in 2025. Implementation of information technology is a mojor challenge for the healthcare sector towards 2025.
HANDALING HEALTHCARE DATA
Internationally recognised interoperability standards emerge which in turn promotes the adoption of integrated electronic health records. Traceability systems document activities along the patient pathway. Decision support software will assist clinicians in adhering to best practices as the volume of available information escalates. Healthcare providers catch-up with the implementation of internet solutions and are actively involved in social networking and support groups which play a prominent role in health.
Virtual hospital environments with patients and proffesional avatars are used to improve clinical skills and teamwork. New advances in web technology provide powerful tools for online information retrieval. Internet technology enables patients to access their own healthcare information and to contribute to their own healthcare records.
REMOTE CARE
Advances in technology move healthcare delivery settings away from high-cost hospitals into alternative low cost settings. In developed nations telemedicine enables patients to receive healthcare at home while in developing countries telemedicine is used to overcome barriers to healthcare delivery such as scarce healthcare resources and geographical distances. Smalll wireless biomedical sensors and ultra wideband radar technology enable monitoring of patients in non-medical settings through wireless networks. Smart phones provide new ways to patients to communicate with their own healthcare providers.
POINT OF CARE
It refers to medical testing near the site of patient care providing rapid test results, enabling immediate clinical management decisions to be made. So called Lab-on-a-Chip technologies improve healthcare accessibility and delivery through a shortening of the timeline between testing and the availability of results. Thus enabling early diagnosis and reduction in healthcare cost. Ultrasound technology becomes portable and disseminates to many fields of clinical practice. A micro nuclear magnetic resonance device enables portable and improved identification of malignant cells facilitating early initiation and monitoring of cancer treatment. Portable identification of nucleic acids enables rapid and accurate identification of pathogens of infectious diseases at the point of care.
PERSONALISED MEDICINE
DNA sequencing of the patients genome facilitates the switch from one-size-fits-all to tailor-made management of disease. Powerful and economical genome sequencing technology supports diagnosis of disease and for some diseases we'll be able to differentiate between different forms where today they are recognized of one. Pharmacogenomics will use genetic information from patients to develop rational approaches to optimize drug therapy to ensure maximum efficacy while limiting adverse effects. Patients will use comparative genomics to develop diagnosis based at the molecular level. Genotypic information will guide to selection of the most effective therapy regime and will help with the development of new drugs directed at novel targets.
Medical imaging moves upstream from the traditional visualisation of the anatomical consequences of disease to visualisation of the disease processes themselves. New contrast agents add molecular information to anatomical images provided by magnetic resonance imaging. A real-time combination of positron emission tomography technology and MRI provides detailed visualisation of physiological processes with an anatomical reference facilitating early detection of disease and effective monitoring of treatment
Research and innovation ensure continuous medical advances which will improve treatment and management of disease. Therapeutic vaccines and nano medicine are used in the treatment of some cancers. Robotic assisted surgery improves surgical techniques enabling microscopic precision. With the aid of high-intensity ultrasound some surgical procedures are performed without cutting into the skin but the news is not all good. The infections caused by multidrug-resistant bacteria together with the decline in research and development of new antibiotics is creating a chasm between requirement and availability that threatens to make some of Medicine's most potent tools redundant.
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