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Telemedicine

Telemedicine allows us to keep more people out of the emergency room and be treated faster and easier than ever. As cost of care and access to traditional care is getting hard due to the COVID19 pandemic, remote healthcare is becoming more prevalent. Patients have more power with the ability to choose from tons of care and insurance providers. The healthcare industry has invested into remote patient care because of how important is to keep the relationship with patients. Remote patient care gives easier access and better ways to manage cost. From Pat O’Doherty, SVP, Digital Healthcare, Analog Devices. Pat sees "information overload present in healthcare now, but also sees how the cloud can be beneficial and how measurement and analytics taking place in the cloud can be pushed down to point of care for actionable information.” . patient monitoring can also be used to be warning signs for prevention and disease management. With some contact tracing apps patients can be notified about potential covid19 exposure and much more like environmental risks such as air pollution. A 2020 study found that virtual care visits could reduce emergency care visits by 20%.

Virtual reality

Virtual reality has improved practices like treatment, disease diagnosis, direct follow-ups, rehabilitation setups, preventive measures, and administrative management practices. Virtual reality can also be used in medical education, this can help make up for resources or equipment that might not be available to the users. VR has already become a big part of training for surgery. VR can also help physicians by allowing them to build virtual organs or tissues. With the up and coming of VR countless healthcare problems have been overcome.

Wearable technology

It has now been made affordable, easy to manage, and convenient to users. When it comes to fitness, users of wearable devices can monitor heart rate and breathing. This makes it safer to make sure your fitness activity is safe for your body. Physical conditions are also able to be monitored remotely especially for things like diabetes with blood sugar levels. Patients will have to come into the office less often because of this remote monitoring. This will lead to faster treatment because doctors will have more knowledge