Digitalization in Healthcare

Technology and Saving Human Lives

Healthcare technology refers to any IT tools or software designed to increase hospital efficiency and administrative effectiveness, provide new insights into medications and treatments, or improve the overall quality of care provided.

Today’s healthcare technology industry is one of the largest in the world, worth an estimated $2 trillion. The industry is currently burdened by high costs, but it is looking for ways to improve in almost every area imaginable. This is where modern technology comes in. Technological tools are being integrated into every step of the healthcare experience to address two major issues: quality and efficiency.

Technology in Healthcare

The uses of technology in the healthcare industry seem endless. Technology is being implemented in everything from hospital administrative operations to cancer research and surgery in order to improve efficiency across the industry and make the patient experience as painless as possible.

The rapid development of technology has led to the emergence of dozens of amazing gadgets and devices that help make our lives easier, safer, and bring us conveniences we never knew before. Although most of the focus is on improvements in electronics such as phones and tablets, there are many gadgets and devices that can have a greater impact on a person’s life by protecting him in life-threatening emergencies, from early detection of cancer to detecting and reporting injuries and accidents.

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1. Apple Watch Saves Man’s Life After He Falls Off His Electric Bike

On the morning of January 22, Hermosa Beach Police in California received an automated emergency call stating that the owner of an Apple Watch had suffered a severe fall. He was located, and emergency services were directed to the scene.

When officers arrived, they found a man lying in the street next to his electric bike bleeding profusely from the head. The man was treated at the scene and then transported to a local hospital for additional medical treatment.

2. Tesla Autopilot Saved Five Lives

Lawrence Sanderson, a UK resident, was driving his wife and three children in a Tesla Model X to Dorset, England, when an oak tree fell.

Sanderson said Tesla's Autopilot kicked in just in time and applied the emergency brakes, saving their lives. If he had been even a second late, they would have been crushed because he couldn't have done anything in time. The Tesla certainly saved their lives.

Sanderson also thanked Tesla CEO Elon Musk, saying in a tweet that his family is very proud of Elon Musk's products.

3. Air Pods Helped Call for Medical Help After Serious Head Injury

Susan Putman, a 60-year-old floral designer from New Jersey, USA, was working on a four-foot-tall wreath when she stepped back to look at it and tripped, falling eight feet and hitting her head on several metal poles.

After the accident, Putman realized she was injured and losing a lot of blood. But instead of getting up and trying to find help, she simply used her personal assistant Siri and called 911.

Putman was then connected to a 911 operator who stayed on the line until police and paramedics arrived. After being taken to the hospital, she was diagnosed with a concussion. She spent a month and a half in the hospital and has since made a full recovery.

4. IBM’s Watson AI Saved a Woman from Leukemia

IBM’s Watson AI is undoubtedly a piece of smart art. It is capable of diagnosing human diseases, processing information, automated reasoning, and more. In 2016, it was used by the University of Tokyo to analyze the medical condition of an elderly woman. The AI ​​was able to diagnose the 60-year-old woman with a rare type of leukemia that had previously been incorrectly identified. It did this by comparing her medical records to a large database of 20 million cancer research papers to provide the correct diagnosis that led to her treatment.