Learn about the trends in medical technology in 2017 through 14 technologies

Informatization in China is an inevitable trend, but in the United States on the other side, there is more than a basic electronic health record system. What they want now is more efficient communication, data storage and security, analysis, and bed management.

Recently, the consulting company HIMSS AnalyTIcs analyzed the medical technology in 2017, and discharged the technology that is most needed in the United States and most likely to be purchased by the hospital. In their view, these technologies will have significant growth potential in 2017. Lei Feng.com has selected some interesting and newer technical directions as listed below.

These technologies do not focus on the monotonous concepts of telemedicine, mobile medicine, and precision medicine, but often follow the actual needs of medical institutions and combine the development trend of technology. The scope includes information management, asset management, medical imaging, security, and even doctor evaluation. These technical directions are worth learning and thinking.

1. Infusion management system and sample collection management system

These are prepared for truly advanced laboratory systems that manage infusions, including blood and breast milk, and then mark them from a sample management perspective, ensuring that each sample has a bar code when the collector collects them. Tracking can be done throughout the hospital and further ensure that the correct samples are used for proper testing.

While other innovations, such as laboratory outreach services (ensuring that people are truly experimentally tested) and genomics are highly optimistic, the overall level of demand is still lower than the system that is more effective in ensuring routine experimental systems.

2. Infection monitoring system

Simply put, it is to reduce the infection caused by the hospital, to manage and monitor. The importance of this point is self-evident for the hospital.

3. Anesthesia information management system

The biggest risk of the hospital is probably the surgical link. It is very important to ensure anesthesia monitoring. It is also the most dangerous part of hospitalization, and nearly 40% of hospitals in the United States currently use this system and will grow.

4. Molecular diagnosis / precision medicine

Another word is precision medicine. There are already some large medical systems that use precision medical treatment, especially in oncology, which is involved in almost every cancer hospital. A current trend for precision medicine is the “central-radiation” model, where large medical centers have the technology to serve small medical institutions.

5. Radiation 3D image and display

As the imaging capabilities increase, the images we see become more and more complex. After all, a three-dimensional mammogram will have a capacity of terabytes. The image becomes more discrete and the volume and size increase accordingly. Managing a massive 3D model requires special displays and software, and this block will see even stronger growth.

6. Heart 3D image and display

The reason is the same as that of radiological imaging. The processing demand for cardiac imaging will also increase. However, some hospitals do not provide such services, so the scope of use is relatively narrow, but the growth curve is similar.

7. Nurse Communication System

For almost all hospitals, nurses have the largest proportion of people and the most direct face to patients, so it is important to ensure that they do the right thing in the right place and take care of the right patients at the right time.

8. Physician assessment tool

This is a very interesting point in medical technology. Now the hospital will record various data such as infections, suture infections, and serum infections caused by hospitals. At the same time, monitoring whether a particular doctor will have more such cases will lead to better medical results. This may give the doctor a feeling of being monitored, but preliminary analysis shows that measuring the results of individual doctors does have a positive effect on reducing infection.

9. Asset Tracking and Management

In fact, this is also part of medical informatization. Just like we will update the computer system, shouldn't we always know the depreciation of the medical server? There are more and more medical electronic devices at any time, and it is important to know where these devices are located and whether they are safe.

10. Hospital bed management

Since hospitalized patients will be managed, bed management is taken for granted. Knowing the type of patient living in the bed, the rate of use, and the number of patients served in a single bed are all important data and should be integrated into some BI and analysis tools.

11. Data Warehouse and Data Mining

Many hospitals have databases, but they are usually self-developed patchwork systems. Now more and more organizations want to turn hospital data into an asset. After all, having data is one thing, and using it is another.

12. Encryption, firewall and spam and spyware filtering

In recent years, medical information security incidents have occurred frequently, but one reality is that many hospitals do not have corresponding security technologies. In 2015, the United States for medical information leaks caused by various reasons, involving a total of about 110 million people, equivalent to one-third of Americans are affected. This figure is 2.7 times the total number of leaks in the previous five years.

There are already some emerging tools, such as security incident information management systems, but ongoing cybercrime will continue and hospitals will have to complete security measures.

13. Real-time positioning system

At present, some hospitals are already using RFID, and most of them are used in some specific departments, such as RFID on the tray of the pharmacy to ensure that all drugs are correct. However, RFID-based extensions can be used to track and locate assets and people, improve security and security, and optimize workflow and staff management.

14. Cloud-based storage

At present, many hospitals use the storage services of major EMR vendors, and the transition to the cloud is slower because there are some security considerations. But more and more hospitals are starting to migrate to the cloud, after all, most people are also hosting outside the site.

Electric Burner

Electric Burner,Electrical Spiral Burner,Double Hotplate Burner,Single Hotplate Burner

Shaoxing Haoda Electrical Appliance Co.,Ltd , https://www.zjhaoda.com