Even as the year 2020 has truly tested the global healthcare fraternity, the coming year and beyond is filled with many promises and some challenges. One is that the remote diagnosis and treatment and the uptake of e-pharmacies spurred by the all-round digitisation of healthcare would become more routine.

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Then the increased traction in wearables, connected medical devices and remote monitoring devices combined with applications and wireless technologies would catalyse the rise of an advanced Internet of Medical Things era. As such, virtual and remote care would become more common. At the same time, the hospitals and clinics would increasingly be seen housing automated reception facilities, face recognition systems, unmanned security with robotic assistants and bots performing the ordinary regular chores. These healthcare facilities are also more likely to have disease screening kiosks, sanitisers and protection suits prompted by COVID-19. A more intensified employment of technologies such as AI, big data and machine learning in R&D would contract the time required for a drug or a device to get to the market and patients. 3D printing would become more common for making medical devices. At the same time, precision medicine […]

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