With the beginning of a new year, many people are wondering what technology and innovations will be popping up in the upcoming months. Medical professionals are not excluded from this group, and are often looking to use the best and most recent technology for their practice. Mobidev, a technology news source, released a list at the beginning of the year of the most anticipated trends in tech for 2020, and the overall trend seems to be a shift towards more mobile access to medicine.
Specifically, Mobidev predicted that these changes would include a larger use of the IOMT, or Internet of Medical things and Cloud Computing in healthcare, meaning that your upcoming doctor’s appointment could include a more cohesive look at your medical history for your healthcare provider. This is important for possible interactions between medications or side effects concerning existing conditions. Mobidev does mention however, that this shift could be a threat to HIPAA standards and create a greater possibility of violations for protected health information.
In addition to this, mobile doctor appointments are predicted to become exponentially more common in the upcoming year. This is a huge improvement for individuals who live in rural areas or have providers with long wait times for appointments. In their article, Mobidev actually tracked the approximate wait times for appointments to be around 24 days as of 2017. This time could be cut shorter or completely eliminated with the implementation of mobile appointments and diagnoses.
Sources used: https://mobidev.biz/blog/technology-trends-healthcare-digital-transformation
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