Important Health Innovations In recent years tremendous technological advances are being made in the field of medicine and healthcare. These advances are extremely important since it will have an impact on everyone involved right from patients, doctors, students to researchers and consumers.
Games and Health Games have a towering presence in our daily life; be it computer games or mobile games. Taking advantage of this trend increasing number of games are designed to have a positive impact on people apart from killing time. One can combine games into healthcare apps so that it can motivate patients as well as gather data. According to researchers nearly 50% of patients do not follow the prescribed treatment plan. By gamifying healthcare apps, it helps to create an environment that is interesting and thus motivates patients to follow the treatment path. Remote Care Autonomous robots can keep an eye on the developments with the patients, after the treatment when the patient has returned home. Increased doctor patient connectivity will allow for better treatments and after treatment care. Empowered patients Thanks to the Internet patients have now become more knowledgeable about their condition its diagnosis and its treatment. Now healthcare professionals can guide the patients regarding the treatment and the required care. Health care professionals should embrace the new technology that is provided by the Internet. New technology will allow professionals to focus better on the patients rather than spending time looking for important information. The technology and health innovations will also allow patients to be equally responsible in their own healthcare. Robots
Robot assisted surgeries help to minimize mistakes and it also enhances the skill of the surgeon. Furthermore, it also allows for less invasive surgeries. Advanced robots will be able to perform surgeries and procedures from thousands of miles away and still garner much more perfection than a skilled surgeon might. Although robots will not fully take over the surgical room entirely because of their lack of adaptability as compared to humans, they will definitely be integrated into the future surgical teams.
Genomics DNA analysis will soon become a standard procedure before prescription of medicines or starting of a treatment so as to provide personalized and optimum level of health care to each patient. This will enable doctors to define diseases and develop a personalized treatment plan that attacks the disease or condition directly. All these health innovations will help to address fatal diseases and to develop organized and well planned treatment plans so that it helps to cure the disease completely while ensuring that patient is in the best of health. It is important that doctors take advantage of these innovations and include them if their treatment and diagnosis systems so that it benefits the patient. After all, one needs to advance in the right direction and health care innovations are set to grow manifolds.