Ten Top Technologies That Will Transform The Healthcare Industry

As healthcare moves to a model of any-time, any-place, continuous and personalized care, it is important to identify the key technologies that will enable this transition and work toward their implementation into different care settings. Frost & Sullivan's Visionary Healthcare research has identified several technologies that are most likely to impact healthcare paradigms by 2025. It is interesting to note that technological advances in the fields of computing, machine learning, nanotechnology and electronics are all playing a role in helping reshape the industry. The figure below provides an overview of the top technologies that will change this industry dramatically, and an analysis of the time frame for their commercialization and maturation. We are now beginning to see larger data sets in healthcare research and delivery to analyze and make sense of entire genome sequences; impact of environmental, behavioral and hereditary factors on health; population health data; patient generated health data; etc. The amount of such data becoming available is only set to increase exponentially by 2025.