6 Digital Healthcare Trends Transforming the Entire Industry

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  • By Sandeep Kumar
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  • calendar Updated: August 30, 2022

Telehealthcare is one of the highly booming industries right now. According to Statista, the global e-Healthcare market size is projected to surpass 38 billion US dollars by 2025. To consider this in terms of annual growth, the entire industry is growing at an annual CAGR of 16.9%.

While there are several factors propelling the growth of the e-healthcare market, ease of use and better reliability are the two most crucial driving forces. Telehealthcare applications allow patients to seek expert consultation right from their smartphones. They can even schedule appointments with a healthcare expert in advance and avoid standing in long queues at the hospital.

To put it in simple words, technology has made conventional healthcare accessible to wider users. But, what does the future hold for digital healthcare? How technology will transform digital healthcare in the next decade. In today’s guide, our healthcare app developers have penned down different trends that’ll transform the future of e-healthcare.

If you’ve been planning to launch a healthcare solution as well, continue reading; this guide will help you choose the most suitable features/business models to build a successful healthcare app for the end users.

1. Increased Adoption of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Healthcare

In recent years, Artificial Intelligence has become one of the most prominent technologies in healthcare. With AI integration, it becomes easier to process patient information and automate decision-making. Not only hospitals and healthcare institutes can process information more accurately, but AI integration can also make it easier to develop new pharmaceuticals for different ailments.

Another potential application of Artificial Intelligence in healthcare is the implementation of NLP systems. For readers who don’t know, NLP refers to Natural Language Processing – a branch of Computer Science whose primary objective is to develop AI algorithms that can understand text and words like humans.

With advanced NLP systems, healthcare professionals can automate the process of analyzing clinical data and patient documentation. Consequently, it becomes easier to analyze huge volumes of clinical notes and provide better healthcare assistance to patients.

In the coming few years, AI’s adoption in healthcare will improve significantly. Microsoft, for instance, is working on an AI-based project – Project Hanover– that’s designed to catalog different Biomedical research papers. The primary objective of this tool is to optimize cancer diagnosis and devise a better healthcare program for the patients.

2. Remote Care and Telemedicine

The COVID-19 pandemic was a nightmare for everyone. However, it also put a full stop to some of the conventional healthcare practices that indeed required a digital transformation.

In-person healthcare assistance was one such practice that got replaced by remote care when many countries went under complete lockdown. During that time, video conferencing became the go-to method for patients to consult different healthcare professionals.

Even today, when the COVID-19 pandemic has taken a backseat, the majority of people prefer virtual care over visiting their doctors. Virtual consultation is far more convenient for both parties and doesn’t consume too much time either.

Like virtual healthcare assistance, telemedicine is another trend whose inception began with the global pandemic. Practo, one of the most popular medicine delivery platforms, witnessed a sudden surge in its monthly revenue.

Moreover, a Statista report suggests that the global market size of telemedicine is projected to increase from 50 billion (2019) to 280 billion dollars by 2025. In a nutshell, telemedicine will continue to grow in the coming years.

3. Wearable Integration for Smart Vital Tracking

Wearable devices have become the newest fitness trend in the market. Initially, wearables were a preferred gadget for fitness enthusiasts who wanted to track the progress of their daily workouts.

But, in the recent few years, these wearable devices have also become an integral part of an average lifestyle. From counting daily calories to keeping a track of steps walked, wearable devices allow people to live a comparatively healthier lifestyle.

Nowadays, smartwatches and fitness trackers are even capable of tracking a person’s blood oxygen levels and heart rate. While the accuracy of these parameters is still questionable, it’s safe to say that wearable devices will most likely play an integral part in the future of telehealth care.

With wearable devices becoming more accessible, we’ll witness an influx of healthcare applications that support wearable synchronization for better healthcare assistance. People will use these applications along with their wearable devices to accurately monitor their vital signs and tackle unexpected situations more effectively.

4. Smart Pills

Yes, smart pills or tech-based medicines will likely become a reality in the near future. Smart pills can be described as digital medicines that use special sensors (and even cameras) to help healthcare professionals understand the level of a patient’s ailment more conveniently.

The sensors used in these medicines activate as soon as they come in contact with the stomach’s acidic environment. The data is then transmitted to a wearable device attached to the patient’s body that allows a doctor to evaluate the patient’s condition more accurately.

As of today’s healthcare landscape, smart pills bring a wide variety of benefits to the table. For instance, patients can help patients take medicines on time as prescribed by the doctor.

In many cases, people have a tendency to forget their medicine intake due to several external factors. But, since a smart pill will always be in synchronization with the patient’s smartphone, it’ll automatically trigger a timer for the next dose once they take the medicine.

In saying that, however, smart pills are still a distant reality, especially when we talk about producing them in huge volumes. One of the biggest challenges with distributing these tech-based pills is their expensive price tags.

When compared to conventional pills, these smart pills are more expensive, which means affordability will be the biggest challenge for their mass distribution.

5. Organ Care

Organ Care technology has already made several headlines and many tech giants are investing millions of dollars in its full-scale development.

Recently, the Wexner Medical Center at the Ohio National University developed a device that could keep organs like the heart, lung, or liver alive outside the body for several hours. Throughout this period, the organ is provided with essential nutrients to keep it under proper conditions.

Many healthcare experts believe that Organ Care Technology will continue to evolve in the next decade. Of course, to implement this idea on a larger scale, it would be necessary to integrate technologies like Artificial Intelligence (AI). With AI coming into the picture, these devices will be able to automatically take required decisions with AI-enabled algorithms.

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Another healthcare trend that would likely become a reality in the near future is bioprinting, i.e., designing healthy organs through 3D printing and organ regeneration. As surprising as this may sound, scientists and many healthcare experts have already started making big leads toward bioprinting and we’re only a decade or two away from designing fully functional organs outside the body.

6. Improved Data Security

In addition to improving healthcare assistance, optimizing data security to avoid data breaches is one of the biggest objectives for the healthcare industry.

As of today, healthcare and fitness businesses often find it challenging to tackle data breaches. However, with blockchain records and advanced encryption techniques, healthcare experts will be able to avoid these breaches and improve data security.

Today, it has also become essential for healthcare ventures to ensure their business adheres to all HIPAA guidelines. By developing HIPAA-compliant healthcare solutions, it’ll become easier to protect sensitive patient information against various cyber threats.

The Bottom Line

Digital healthcare is growing exponentially and new trends are always emerging. With advancements in technology, it’s safe to say that digital healthcare will continue to evolve in the next few decades. Of course, the above-mentioned trends are only the tip of the iceberg. With technologies like Metaverse becoming reality, we’ll further witness several new healthcare trends that’ll transform the entire industry. If you are looking to scale your healthcare business, get in touch with our healthcare app development experts and let them devise personalized healthcare solutions so that you can embrace the desired digital transformation more effectively.

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