January 26, 2021
How Could AI, AR, and VR Change Healthcare?
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January 26, 2021
How Could AI, AR, and VR Change Healthcare?
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For nearly a decade, every industry has been experiencing the transformational power of the latest technologies like augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), and artificial intelligence (AI). But among all the industries, healthcare could benefit most from these new technologies. AR has given birth to telemedicine and remote medical care by the doctors without their physical presence at the hospital facilities. On the other hand, A.I. and Machine Learning gave birth to advanced robotics in the healthcare sector that can prevent treatment errors to a great extent. 

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DaVinci is a nice example of AI-powered advanced robotics in the healthcare sector. This is one of the first efficient tools for machine powered surgery. The device always offering full control to the surgeon actually reduces the scope of surgical errors. The tool is getting advanced with every passing year and evolving with more autonomous features. 

Here are seven emerging technologies that could offer new value for the healthcare sector and the medical industry as a whole.

Cognoa

Just this year, in February, the U.S. FDA designated AI-based software from Cognoa as a Breakthrough Device that could be used to detect autism in patients as young as just 18 months. 

Autism is a developmental disorder in which a revised diagnosis of the behavior patterns and irregularities can play a significant role in the treatment.

A.R. Based and Miniature Robots for Surgery 

Apart from making patients’ lives more comfortable and smoother, AR-based medical apps are also helping doctors with enhanced efficiency. When surgeons perform keyhole surgery by applying a head-mounted display, it is a classic example of hi-tech medical care. The whole system works by coupling computer-based visualization with a smart navigation system to help doctors track what is going on inside the patient’s organs through vivid visuals.

The augmented reality-based system from Karger, using MRI and CT scans, can produce detailed images of the patient’s body and the color-coding of different organs by the software. By loading these images into the Microsoft HoloLens headset, surgeons can see the patient’s organs’ virtual 3D visuals. As of now, the system is not tested on real patients, as the company admits. 

EyeDecide AR app

OrCAD, already known for various tools boosting patient engagement, has created an app called EyeDecide to simulate patient vision by using the device camera. Some of this app’s key capabilities include providing interactive anatomical models to boost patient understanding, educate patients through images and 3D videos of different patient conditions, and help patients make more informed decisions about the kind of eye surgery and treatment they require.

SimX

Thanks to SimX, doctors and clinical experts could interact with a high-definition, customizable, 3D virtual patient avatar. Different patient avatars can be created with the corresponding attributes based on the patients’ features ranging from age, physical shapes, deformities, and health conditions.

Meta 1 

AR-based Meta 1 provides true-scale holograms to mix the real-world and holographic images and merge them through the 3D stereoscopic display. It is also capable of marker-less surface tracking. You can zoom in on the real-world environment and get a holographic image of the same.

AccuVein 

AccuVein is capable of mapping veins to display its entire network in real-time. This app could help doctors and caregivers identify the veins with the most potential for needle access. AccuVein has become instantly popular among healthcare service providers as it can be applied without coming into contact with the patient’s body. Moreover, the device is immediately usable, and you don’t need to adjust or recalibrate it for usage. The best part is the device can work both in light and dark conditions.

Google Glass

AR and AI-based patient care has become the new promise for the entire healthcare sector.

When getting the right information at the right time is the need of the hour, these new technologies show how. Recently researchers have made more secure Google Glass to accommodate patient data overlay for examining patients effortlessly. The new Google Glass enriched with this feature is triggered by the QR code outside the patient’s room.

If this is not enough, there are several efforts to utilize AR and AI technologies for surgical operations, diagnoses, and regular care.

Conclusion

By now, we know it’s quite evident that healthcare is a sector where AI, VR, and AR will definitely boom. In fact, the pandemic caused by Covid-19 has opened doors to many such possibilities, and there’s no doubt that technologies such as AR-VR will play a significant role in the future also. But in this race of providing the best medical solution, let’s see which mobile app development company will win the game and bring about a change in the way we have viewed healthcare over the years.

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