The Top 5 Medical Innovations To Look Out For In 2022

As they say, new year, new beginnings; and this also applies to the field of digital health! With the COVID-19 pandemic still raging, the crisis has led to the adoption of certain trends in response to the challenges it raised. In general, this tends to bring the point of care to wherever the patient is. As more investment and research focus are diverted towards those relevant fields, this will help generate more innovations from those areas. Even if they might not become the point of focus in 2022, these “predictions” usually follow through with time. For instance, for 2020 we forecasted a new line of Google-branded smart trackers. While this did not happen in 2020, new reports about such a device emerged in 2021; and the health tracker might be released in 2022. So to get ready for this new year full of digital health potentials, let’s take a peek at 5 fields to expect medical innovation and developments out of. 1. Vocal biomarkers: identifying conditions from a conversation “Computer, run a health check-up from my vocal input.” This line might seem to have been lifted from a Star Trek script, but we are close to having such conversations with our computers. With A.I.-based techniques, symptom checker software can detect so-called “vocal biomarkers”. By analysing a person’s voice recording, the algorithm can discern differences between vocal patterns characteristic of certain diseases. This is the technology that startup Sonaphi is...
Source: The Medical Futurist - Category: Information Technology Authors: Tags: Covid-19 Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Digital Health Research Future of Medicine Health Insurance Healthcare Design Telemedicine & Smartphones google microbiome genome sequencing A.I. vocal biomarkers at-home tests deepmin Source Type: blogs