2020 Trends, Predictions, And Promising Applications For Technology And Healthcare

We see the most promising applications in healthcare when real time decision making using simple data sets can relieve the burden on the caregiver and drive better outcomes for patients. For example, alarm fatigue in hospitals - both clinically and operationally - is a cause of lost productivity and decreased patient safety. AI technology can be applied to a smart pump to only sound an alarm when there is a critical need for intervention and to initiate an escalation process if there is no response. Trend: Digitization through the electronic health record brings a patient's entire clinical history to one place through notes, observations, lab results, imaging and other data. There is a risk that digitization creates only copies of the old analog data sets - electronic records without analytics and interoperability are just expensive paper.