The child healthcare sector in India is gradually turning out to become one of the largest and the most emerging domains in present times. The mounting infiltration of health insurance and the rising demand for superior healthcare facilities for children are among the chief elements driving this growth.
With the amplified amount of affluence and awareness created about the present and upcoming healthcare trends among the Indian masses, the pediatric industry is sure to witness a gradual rise in the demand for accessibility to better health care.
As child healthcare shifts to a model of any-time, any-place, incessant and modified care, it is significant to recognize the important technologies that will empower this evolution and work optimistically towards their application into diverse care settings. The ever-growing world of medicine and healthcare is constantly changing as new treatments, trends and technologies are being developed.
This is especially true of medical trends like technologically advanced aspects of machine learning, AI, computing, nanotechnology, and electronics that are playing an important role in aiding to reshape the industry. Below mentioned are a couple of current and future trends and technologies that are sure to positively impact the child’s healthcare requisites.
An effective patient engagement: Parents and guardians in current times are comfortable with an instantaneous exchange of knowledge via virtual platforms like social media and online medical research, this is especially true in case of diagnosing various pediatric diseases and ailments. Today being an era of digitalization, many parents have health apps on their smartphones, and even health institutions are starting to catch up by effective offering tools: from iPads with apps that aid patients to track their health progress in the hospital, to offering interesting healthcare games with avatars that kids can play at home, thus encouraging them to take charge of their health.
Such apps are equipped to allow patients to check in digitally and are commendably addressed with all sorts of medical help, further they get timely information and vaccination reminders. Novel digital podiums like Docterz are an operative platform that enables patients to acknowledge the fact that an app can add value to their lives by effortlessly addressing multiple health issues in a condensed time frame. This nothing but helps to streamline a good rapport between the patient and the healthcare expert. Such engagements benefit by creating a reliable two-way partnership in which clinicians can learn from families and simultaneously offer them tools to help them better manage their child’s care.
Artificial Intelligence: While the human capacity to evaluate and make conclusions is superior to any other species on the planet, it is still inadequate in terms of the volume of information and data that can be administered quickly. Artificial intelligence has the capability of making this process quicker by numerous degrees and far more resourceful and competent than humanly possible. With machine learning proficiencies, the technology’s child healthcare applications are limitless.
Some of the applications presently being developed are helping pediatricians, physicians and radiologists to make precise medical analysis and mining medical records data to recover the delivery of healthcare service in India.
This article is contributed by Dr. Atish Laddad, Founder & Director, Docterz.
