Emerging Technologies Have the Potential to Improve Healthcare Delivery

Despite the sector's slow adoption, emerging technology has immense potential to revolutionize healthcare and transform patient outcomes. Seven standout technologies show great promise in enhancing care provision and reducing costs.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a standout technology capable of automating tasks that require human intelligence, such as decision-making and language understanding. Healthcare can benefit greatly from AI applications, including Virtual Nursing, Smart Hospital Spaces, and Smart Wear Tech. These AI applications can offer virtual support, monitor vital signs, offer emotional support, personalize treatment plans, and elevate patient comfort.

3D Printing is a breakthrough technology that creates three-dimensional objects from digital files, enabling tailor-made healthcare solutions. For instance, 3D-printed prosthetics can be customized to fit precisely, enhancing patient comfort while reducing risks.

Augmented and Virtual Reality (AR/VR) offer real-world environment enhancement and simulated imaging for healthcare applications. Surgical residents can use VR simulations to practice complex surgical procedures in a low-risk environment, enhancing the quality of medical training.

These emerging technologies embody the enormous potential to improve healthcare delivery while reducing costs, offering a glimpse of a brighter future.

What Will Healthcare Look Like in 100 Years? Hospitals Will Be the Rare Exception

Healthcare is evolving at an unprecedented rate, with new technologies, treatments, and AI models emerging globally. The industry's future changes are difficult to predict, but some predict that personalized care through genomics and disease prevention medications will become commonplace, while others believe that racial equity issues may persist. 

We will see significant developments in the next 50 years or less, including personalized health and wellness, AI-backed diagnosis and treatment, gene therapy for disease prevention or treatment, and AI-powered surgical robots. Despite these advancements, AI is expected to augment human capabilities rather than replace them, leading to better care and enhanced longevity.

Looking 100 years in the future, medicine will be unrecognizable, with innovative medicines, medical devices, and improved data sharing and measurement techniques providing more holistic and continuous health insights. 

In 2123, healthcare will be about converging historical paradigms, with AI enabling more advanced tools for precision medicine, population health, and real-world data for clinical research.

ChatGPT: The Ultimate Marketing Tool for Hospitals

Health systems incorporate generative artificial intelligence, like ChatGPT, to streamline their marketing efforts and save time. 

This technology has been implemented by WVU Medicine to generate routine web content for providers, which is then reviewed and edited by professional human writers for accuracy.

LCMC Health also uses generative AI to create blog posts, articles, e-newsletters, and internal content while maintaining brand voice and values. 

Other health systems are testing large language models to generate first drafts of messaging quickly and efficiently. 

While this new technology shows potential, it's important to have effective oversight, proofreading, and editing processes to ensure its safe and appropriate use.

Chat GPT and the Unit Secretary (Video)

 

CHATGPT is a powerful artificial intelligence tool that healthcare organizations may incorporate into their systems. 

As a unit secretary, I cannot help but be intrigued by this technology's potential impact on our role and its future. Beyond facilitating clerical processes such as record-keeping and documentation, CHATGPT could make completing many of the clinical tasks currently handled by medical secretaries more efficient and accurate. 

That would make life easier for healthcare administrators and patients and relieve some of the pressure on personnel in the field. 

While there are still many kinks to work out before this technology can completely replace existing workflows, it looks like CHATGPT could be an important part of a transforming healthcare landscape in the near future.

But should Unit Secretaries be concerned about this program taking their job? I'll explain this in the video above.