| |April 20188TREND ANALYSIS IN HEALTHCAREWockhardt Hospitals CIO Sumit Singh and his team worked for long 18 months to build an automated costing analysis model that not only reduced complexity and saved time but also made the data available in real-time. Augmented Reality in Healthcare TechnologyAugmented Reality in Health-care will play a very critical role in certain areas. First, that comes to mind is in the field of teaching medicine. With AR and VR, the methods to train future clinicians will see a sub-stantial change as simulators did for the aviation industry. Not only it will come out of text books, limited specimens or tools/equipment, but also make it more repeatable, stan-dardized, make it more accessi-ble and reduce cost. Practicing and learning new techniques for complex surgeries as well as training for patient care will become easier. Further, prior to a surgical intervention, the surgeon and the supporting team would be able to plan and perform pre surgery mock runs for the actual interven-tion on the patient. Additional-ly, it would also play a signifi-cant part in telemedicine and remote surgery. Clinical Patient Access Solutions.Frankly, fax is not much of a player anymore, be it for refer-ences or appointments, which By Sumit Singh, VP & CIO, Wockhardt Hospitals Ltdwas the case a few years back and per-haps more so in the West but certainly not in the Indian context. With the ad-vent of digitisation and interoperabili-ty, we are more in the era of connected systems and applications. Recognising this need, more and more Healthcare Management Information Systems are filling this gap with multiple strate-gies. Already patient and doctor por-tals are becoming standard part of the application by which patients are get-ting far more visibility and control of both there clinical and financial data. Likewise, recognising that references are key source of patient flow into the hospital, the need to remain seamlessly connected round the clock, HMIS itself is the rightful place for this. Thus, while the current flow through faxes may still be in practice to a certain extent in some institutions, it is something I am quite certain will change in a short span of time ahead. AI in Medical Diagnosis and Im-age Recognition in HealthcareAI is radically going to affect key areas in the practice of medicine for diagno-sis, image recognition and more. The practice of medicine has long been ev-idence-based andon the back of experi-ence of the doctor. Together they play a critical role in proper diagnosis and reading of images and scans. Artificial expert opinion
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