(Newswire.net — December 29, 2020) — There’s no doubt that technology is changing the world faster than anyone might have imagined a mere ten or fifteen years ago. Just look at the state of affairs in 2020, where billions of people were able to work from home instead of going into the office, and billions more were able to use the internet to access important information about how their state was responding to a crisis. In this article, we’ll look at how these technologies are interacting and intertwining with medicine in the modern world.
Robotic Surgery
Much has been made of robotic surgeries in recent years. Researchers say that the benefits are profound: not only is the shudder on a human arm eliminated entirely by a robotic one, but the precision is second-to-none. The human is better at responding to stimuli and adapting – but the robot is better at performing the required task. Already, more people are said to be willing to be operated on by a robot than to have a bank account opened for them by a robot – which shows the level of trust we have in robotic medicine. And robotic medical procedures are already happening, too – and are set to increase in the years to come.
AI Diagnosis
It’s likely that, in some distant time in the future, we’ll see it as incredibly inefficient that we used to train all of our doctors to be able to diagnose patients with one of many thousands of unique and hard-to-spot ailments. Asking millions of human doctors to store that much information in their heads and get it right all the time would be laughable. We’re not biologically made for such a burden. But AI is made for this burden – and you can expect AI to be preferred in diagnoses in the near future, after promising initial trials.
Therapy
Have you seen any news in the past decade about robotic or AI therapists? Worryingly for many professional therapists and psychoanalysts, the ability for a very simple AI to run a therapy session was proven back in the 1990s. Now, three decades on, there is incredibly able software out there which people are more than happy to sit and talk to in order to help them feel better about their issues. We’ll see this technology develop in the coming years, too.
Smart Ambulances
This is something to keep an eye out for, as it’s currently positioned at the cutting edge of medicine. The rise of firms like Ambulnz suggests that the world is about to see the modernization of the mobile medical unit used by the ambulance emt – making it use big data and smart resource management, much like Uber has done for the taxi industry, and DoorDash did for the food delivery industry. Using this technology for medicine is sure to attach rocket boosters to our ability to respond to accidents in a moment of crisis.
By keeping tabs on these four areas of medicine, you’ll be able to make predictions about the future of the industry. It’s an exciting time – and all of these breakthroughs will make people live longer as we move into the 2020s.