Emerging technologies in healthcare: IoT, blockchain and AI
Earlier this year, the editors at SearchHealthIT noted four major health IT trends to watch for in 2018: AI, EHR analytics, blockchain and mobile health.
It’s no surprise that our new handbook deals with two of those topics — AI and blockchain — as they represent emerging technologies in healthcare that in theory could pick apart patient data transactions in different ways.
A third emergent technology, IoT, has found some success in healthcare, too, as sensors and connected medical devices allow for better real-time monitoring and integration of data.
A killjoy with all three of these emerging technologies in healthcare is that they remain largely unproven. IoT is closest to the finish line but still has security challenges; blockchain proponents claim the transaction process is tamper-proof, but it’s plausible that someday hackers will discover a way in; and AI can mean vastly different things depending on which software or platform an organization evaluates. Read more…