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HealthTech Industry Update | First Real Nanobots Entering your Body

In previous Industry Updates we showed a surgeon robot innovation which was presented in 2014, here is something more actual.


The Rise of actually real and useful Nanobots making use of the rapidly advancing miniaturisation of
robotics and microchips through companies such as TSMC, Intel and Samsung.


These tiny computers/robots potentially will:


➡️️ enter our bloodstream

➡️️cross the blood brain barrier

➡️healing diseases such as cancer

➡️ read and write similar to how Brain Computer Interfaces such as Neuralink currently work

➡️️ enable things such as full dive virtual reality

➡️ even increasing the longevity up to 200 years


The future of technology is looking really exciting, and every day is a day closer to the Technological
Singularity.

Once Robots learned to walk & think, humans flying to Mars and us finally merging with
technology itself.

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HealthTech Industry Update | The Robot Surgeon You Can Swallow

In 1959, Richard Feynman made the famous assertion that one day we will be able to swallow the surgeon. 

Advancements in nanomedicine are soon making that dream come true. In one of the next updates we will show the actual status in nano-robotics but here the beginning.

Nanoroboticist Metin Sitti showed at the World Science Festival 2014 already impressive tiny kind of robots that can act inside of you:

➡️️ is moving forward through the bowel

➡️ sends life data contactless

➡️️ take pictures and sends for monitoring

➡️ make a biopsy and cut without repercussions

➡️️ delivers medicine direct to the right place

Not exactly nanoscopic, but still amazing and hopefully it becomes once available for all gastroenterologists.

Next week we will show in our weekly HealthTech update how it looks now, 8 years later.

here from the World Science Festival…

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HealthTech Industry Update | How Exoskeleton Technology Can Transform Healthcare

Exoskeletons have the potential to help people with disabilities in the future – using a combination of
human and machine control.

“It’s important that we give wheelchair users an opportunity to stand out of their wheelchair and
take steps on a regular basis,” says physiotherapist Ronan Langan. “We know it will improve their
quality of life and potentially their life expectancy.”

Aspects on Exoskeletons in Healthcare :


➡️ Shared autonomy and health are positive contributions in society


➡️ improves the quality of life of injured persons


➡️️ Combines human and machine control


➡️️ The Exoskeleton robot part has low level autonomy


➡️️ The Skeleton detects humans intentions and steers motion


➡️ For the future the goal is that robot gets the same information as the spine


➡️ with this the speed of walking and moving can be improved

One of the most advanced exoskeletons for people with a spinal cord injury is operated in Dublin City
University and tested out by Romina, who has used a wheelchair since she was 4.

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HealthTech Industry Update | Innovations tackling youth mental health challenges

Youth mental health is one of the most underfunded and neglected, yet crucial global challenges.
Fourteen percent of the world’s young people live with a mental health condition, and one young
person dies by suicide every 11 minutes.


The Uplink Youth Mental Health Challenge sought to identify some of the leading innovations around
the world working to address these transformational needs, especially those led by young people
themselves.

119 submissions were received from around the world and 14 Top Innovators were
selected to join the Network.


These innovations are mostly from the areas:


➡️ Learning Applications about mental health and understand


➡️ Connect to help and positive influence and negative prevention Applications and counselling


➡️️ Games to overcome obstacles and challenges


➡️️ evidence-based cognitive-behavioural techniques


UpLlink Innovation Network provides selected organisations with access to connections, visibility and
support to accelerate their impact.

Have a look….

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/07/these-14-innovations-are-tackling-youth-mental-health-challenges/

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HealthTech Industry Update | Major HealthTech Trends of 2022

2022 was strengthen the healthTech industry with breakthrough discoveries and innovations.

As we had articles concerning the medical and health-tech trends here again a collection update of the key technology trends and transformations expected in the world of medicine.

The general focus is on improving quality of processes and procedures, affordability of healthcare services, new and enhanced intelligent medical devices, and predicting and preventing diseases instead of treating them at advanced stages.

Here a collection of trends we see:

➡️  Improving patient service quality and affordability: 

  • New AI Applications
  • Concerns of the Medical Community
  • Integration of Healthcare Systems with Big Data 
  • Strong patient-provider relation for Patient’s Benefit
  • Universal Telehealth
  • Social recognition of health gain value
  • Consumerism in the Medical Market
  • medical supply in rural areas

➡️  new and enhanced intelligent medical devices

  • Nanomedicine and robots
  • Surgical robotics and environment digitalisation
  • Internet of Medical Things (IoMT)
  • wireless connected devices
  • Smart Implants
  • VR, Augmented, and Mixed Reality in Healthcare
  • more intelligent wearables

➡️  Safer, secure, and connected health-tech systems

  • Data Breach Prevention
  • Interoperability and Data Sharing Among Healthcare Entities
  • Precision Medicine Will Force Out the One-Size-Fits-All Approach
  • Improved and global synchronised regulation and standards 
  • Digital (pandemy) networks system between doctors, hospitals, pharma and health institutions 

➡️  Prevention and prediction

  • Overcoming Mental Health Challenges with Telepsychiatry 
  • Big Data and Analytics to Support Disease Prevention
  • Annuity Reimbursement will be Introduced to Support Gene Therapy Projects
  • The environmental impact on health is getting more attention
  • Social and mental health connected with physical health is more recognized

➡️  Healthtech Business

  • More digital health unicorns will exit via IPO
  • HealthTech profits from the merging of interests of Tech Companies and Healthcare Institutions
  • These Tech companies which are focusing on product quality, innovation, and processes have been growing and will prosper

So all in all a good progress in these topics and a positive foresight to 2023. Some of these trends we had covered already detailed in former Industry updates, some we will cover in future articles. 

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HealthTech Industry Update | Why healthtech gets our pulses racing

Healthcare providers are turning to digital to meet consumer demands, an increasing convergence of healthcare and tech companies to improve people’s health in the broadest sense, from prevention to cure to rehabilitation, this is called HealthTech now.

And  the race started in the new HealthTech sector with the drivers:

➡️️ Pressure on cost reduction in the Healthcare sector

➡️️ Aging population

➡️ Global pandemic infections

➡️ Better supply in rural areas needed

➡️️ Potential growth of revenue in HealthTech 

And related measures and ongoing activities:

➡️ Growing M&A for Healthcare and Tech companies

➡️ Hype in Ideas, Innovations, start-ups

➡️ Growth in data and information sector

➡️ Increase research and development for medical  sensors and devices e.g. wearables

➡️ Regulatory actions for data and security

➡️ Hype in Telemedicine solutions e.g. remote doctor visits

➡️ Pharma company connected with patients

The trend is clear and these companies following HealthTech need to change stand out with quality, innovation and performance. 

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HealthTech Industry Update | Carbon neutral Green Hospital

Green Hospital and Carbon neutral thanks to sustainable technology.
In light of climate change, the healthcare industry is putting increasing emphasis on
sustainability besides digitization and labor shortages. In the future, hospital facilities will be
judged by their carbon footprint and their contribution to climate neutrality.


Action to be taken are:


➡️ As a first step, hospitals should

calculate their carbon footprint to track all direct and
indirect emissions with Tools that can calculate the carbon footprint, business process
improvements, and hardware optimization.


➡️ A “Green Hospital” is also a smart facility.

That means processes and procedures are
efficient, ideally save time and reduce work for the hospital staff. This subsequently lowers
stress and creates a more relaxed hospital environment and efficient usage of resources.


➡️ Digital technologies provide significant opportunities to help reduce emissions e.g.


➡️️ Digital controlled recycling systems


➡️ Medical information systems / software


➡️ IT infrastructure / computer hardware


➡️ ️Administrative information systems / software

Unfortunately, outside of panel discussions, decarbonization is not yet an industry priority.
Decarbonization of healthcare and hospitals is a new and complex issue that necessitates
skills and expertise from many different areas.

MEDICA Tradefair Magazine| Interview with Michelle Dürksen, Sustainability Consultant, Atos

https://www.medica-tradefair.com/en/Green_Hospital_Net-Zero_Digitization?utm_source=25-01-2023-2&utm_medium=Email&utm_content=Intro&utm_campaign=Portalnewsletter-2023

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HealthTech Industry Update | Inside the Lab where robots run their own experiments

Recent breakthroughs in automation and active machine learning are taking laboratory science to
the next level.

What will the laboratories of the future look like?


Here one example how it looks like using cutting edge automation technology:


➡️️ Login to a WEB application


➡️ Design the experiment with code


➡️️ execute the experiment from the robots


➡️️ observe the experiment remotely

Advantages:


➡️ this safes a lot of time and creates more reliable results


➡️ it allows exact replicability


➡️ it is expandable and adaptable for similar applications


➡️ scale the experiments


➡️ reduce costs, reuse equipment

This is more than moving small amounts of liquid around or shining lasers on them.
This gives space and is helping humans to focus on the creative aspects of a hypothesis and scientific
interpretations.


This is the future of life science!

https://youtu.be/L1UgdoP2aeg

HealthTech Industry Update | Medical Imaging Technology | The patient impact

Imaging is the technique and method of producing actual images of a body’s interior for clinical study and medical intervention and visual representation of the function of certain organs or tissues (physiology). 

The advancement of x-ray, MRI, and ultrasound technology has allowed medical practitioners worldwide to be better at caring for patients.

Medical imaging is a type of technology that has revolutionised the medical field. 

Modern medical imaging technologies:

➡️ are able to find problem areas faster and much more accurate

➡️️ allow pain or problem areas can be treated non-invasively

➡️ recognize recovery and improvement earlier

➡️️  prevent guesswork

➡️️ support medical practitioners worldwide to be better at caring for patients

Technology components are:

➡️ AI Artificial Intelligence

➡️️ Immersive technology (VR & AR)

➡️ Ultrasound imaging

Through these modern developments, doctors were further able to improve the patient’s level of practice and experience.

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HealthTech Industry Update | Could AI shorten hospital wait times?

In UK are 6.000.000 people waiting for routine hospital treatment which become a massive issue increasing strain on the hospital.

An NHS Trust in England is trialling Artificial Intelligence (AI) which may be able to manage waiting lists for surgeries and ultimately bring down waiting times, reports BBC technology show Click.

This Healthcare approach includes:

➡️️ During a consultation, the AI technology helps determine the level of risk a patient will be exposed to by undergoing surgery.

➡️ The AI model takes into account over 220 different factors to work out each individual person’s risk as well as the outcome of the surgery.

➡️ AI / Machine Learning deliver a prognosis what will be the outcome of the operation

➡️ Which complications they may have

➡️️ Determine which patients need after surgery intensive care facilities and where the best

➡️️ Find the best site and time for the surgery

➡️ The system uses MS Cloud with the existing machine learning

Critics of the technology said they have wider concerns about data privacy, questioning if AI is a good fit with healthcare.

The records and data are anonymized and the data belongs only to the patients and clinicians. 

This type of system can be applied to different surgeries and AI will play a greater role in future medicine but it is still just a tool as final decisions are made by human specialists.

Have a look on the BCC News

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