Technological Advances In Health: Improvements Applied To Medicine

Technological advances in health: improvements applied to medicine

ABSTRACT

Technological advances are evolutionary processes for the creation of tools that apply scientific knowledge giving innovation to the human being to be able to develop better. In health, technology is considered to have arrived to fill specific human abilities to better assist people and give them a more successful management of diseases, technology has been applied since years ago in medicine being of great benefit in terms ofperson’s health. Technological advances to health: they provide new machines, medicines and treatments that save lives and improve the chances of recovery of millions of people. The improvements applied to medicine give a great turn to science and the health sector since there are many beneficial medical technology such as: diagnosis, monitoring or treatment of diseases in a more effective way. Among them 6 technologies that are going to revolutionize the world of medicine: printing 3 d, bionic prostheses, augmented reality, “weareable” technology, nanotechnology applied to medicine, telemedicine, a few decades ago technologies would have been impossible to explain. Now they are a reality, whose boom will greatly improve the quality of life and health of people. The future is here in regard to medical sciences, it is increasingThe hand, advancing at a dizzying speed.

INTRODUCTION

Medical technology has interspersed different fields, with a positive impact not only on the speed of processes, but also on the welfare of the human being.

It is estimated that investment in research and development for 2020 will exceed 29 billion dollars."Although there are serious challenges, the benefits of implementing technological advances in the medical sector are enormous, such as improving the quality of care, greater comfort for patients and better results in general". Health technology has come to fill specific human abilities to better attend people and give them a more successful management of diseases. Among the positive aspects, the accuracy of the diagnosis and the results, less intervention and invasion in the body, is highlighted, speed in recovery with less invasive interventions, better access to services to be able to massify them and the decrease in displacement to areas of attentionby telemedicine and delivery of online results. There are several advantages that continuous technological advances in the health sector will bring for the next few years. Laboratories will be increasing. Similarly, medical staff will perform functions beyond routine operations, which will facilitate interaction with the patient, finance, marketing services and strategic planning. In the near future the big cities will have health systems composed of large monopolies that can provide patients with distance dominated by telemedicine, one of the great advances that revolutionized the world of medicine, thanks to this you can make quotesA click with almost immediate diagnoses.

DEVELOPING

The great importance that technology has achieved in the world of medicine is a fact. We perceive how this field, more than others, is being favored in large quantity, by the current advances.

It is stated that the future of medicine goes hand in hand, making medical practices much more effective and vertiginous. Today, thanks to the softwares that are made for the health sector, a large volume of very useful and select data of patients can be collected. With this data, harmonized and proven with each other, it is much more feasible and sure to be aware of what treatment to each patient with precision.

In addition, it is undeniable to observe with what simplicity the technological methods that have been built in hospital centers. They operate to give the patient higher quality and, at the same time, these facilitate more medical attention, thanks to these care, they can intervene and treat their referents.

Some of these technological innovations in medicine are what we will mention below:

3D printing, bionic prostheses, augmented reality, "wearable" technology, nanotechnology.

3D impression

3D impression, more indicated as addition by addition, is a process by which physical objects are created after the application of layers in layers according to a digital model. All 3D printing techniques need software, hardware and materials to work contiguously.

3D printing technology can be used to create anything from prototypes, from simple parts to final products of a very wide technical level, such as plane pieces (English), environmentally friendly constructions, medical implants that are usedTo save lives and artificial human organs that are created with layers of human cells.

3D printing applied in medicine

This technology has been used above all for prostheses and human tissue.

3D impression is one of the most current technological progress that has given a hand to improve the medicine industry, obtaining prosthesis, prostheses, and even food for people suffering from dysphagia.

To use the 3D printer, doctors acquire human cells of biopsies or stem cells so that they multiply in a petri box and can obtain a biological ink which is introduced into the printer programmed to produce different types of cells, in a three -dimensional way.

The impression of prostheses has benefited to create more anatomical crutches adapted to the size of each patient and limbs of the human body as hands and legs that, merging with the electronic environment supplies mobility.

One of the most famous events is from Amanda Boxtel a woman who spent 20 years in a wheelchair and thanks to 3D printing beat the immobility.

In these circumstances, specialist scientists are suitable for printing human fabric, however, they have not managed to print an organ that is functional because they face the vascular system that consent to blood irrigation, which could not be achieved inA print organ. Sydney, Harvard, Stanford and MIT universities are already in research to solve this complication.

The progress and inquiry of 3D printers is taking impulse, so the Wke Forest University Faculty, is increasing a 3D printer for military purposes, with the aim of regenerating the skin of those burned patients burned.

3D printers could help medicine and laboratories that make cosmetics stop experimenting with animals.

Bionic prostheses

The bionic lies in the application of the latest generation technological systems to the duplication of the biomechanical processes of the skeletal muscle system of human beings. Heading to get a motor practice, the most similar to the natural movement patterns of the replaced parts. We achieve this way to determine the bionic prostheses such as prostheses or artificial limbs endowed with some autonomy and "intelligence". They are able to execute the application of a part lacking the body.

Bionic prostheses achieve this autonomy and "intelligence". Through the use of sensors, processors, inclinometers, accelerometers, actuators and complex control algorithms.

The mode of action of bionic prostheses

The mode of action of bionic prostheses is very attractive;collect and interpret the nerve impulses that the user sends to the peripheral musculature. Through electrodes placed on the skin, integrated into the prosthetic lace system. But also the data offered by the external medium, through the data that the prosthesis itself offers during its operation.

These own and external signs are deciphered after a computer system that is made up of microprocessors within the prosthesis. In turn, it returns the order to act with the movement pattern and the intensity required.

While the first bionic prostheses have focused on the upper members. This is due to the large amount of fine and high complexity movements that can be required by a hand. They are currently being imposed on the field of lower limb protésica.

Thus, bionic prostheses not only take into account the orders issued by the user’s musculature, but also those that receive from interaction with the land. Such as the speed of the march, length of the passage, slope, irregular lands … thus having many more data to respond in fractions of second to the needs of the user at each time.

AUGMENTED REALITY

Increased reality in medicine helps save lives. And we can even say that it is the present in modern medicine.

In hospitals techniques such as X -rays, computerized tomographs (TC), magnetic resonances (MRI) and ultrasounds, among others, among others are used, among others. These can reveal structures such as bones allowing to see a fractured leg or soft organs like the brain.

Increased reality applications

Increased reality applications in medicine consist of merging components such as 3D images and models with real elements, which provides great advantages in the anatomy area, since in real time the organs of the human body in depth can be visualized.

Another application of augmented reality in medicine is the surgical area. This technology manages to obtain an improved and in -depth vision of the field that will be operated.

That is, the augmented reality in the medical sector offers solutions that help, in real time, to visualize the internal parts of the patient projecting 2D or three -dimensional images achieving in depth the different organs to be treated and helping to make a decision making in theirdiagnosis.

Wearable technology

The future of technology is developing and transforming towards a new conception of computers that accompany humans everywhere. There are currently less problems when you forget the house keys, than when you leave home without your smartphone. In this sense, wearable large -scale wearable technology seems.

Wearable to which it refers

Wearable refers to the set of electronic devices and devices that are incorporated into some part of our body continuously interactOur state of health, are some examples of this type of technology that is incorporated into the life of human beings little by little.

The wearable word is an anglicism whose translation means "bearable" or "clothing" in technological slang refers to small computers that always go with the user. Under this thought, the PC ceases to be an independent device for the user that only used in a space defined in the home or office, to be an element that is incorporated and interact with the human being, in addition to accompanying it toeverywhere. With wearable technology, people suffering from diabetes, 1 in 11 in the world, can use devices that are implanted in the body to control the amount of glucose through an electronic dispenser that automatically injects the amount of precise insulin.

Wearable technology has its origin in the 60’s, but it has not been until 2010 when this technology has evolved enough to attract an extensive range of (Copyright, 2019) particularly the year 2014 is considered a point ofinflection for this technology after the overall market of devices such as Google Glass or Apple Watch. From then on various companies and startups have dedicated themselves to developing bracelets, rings, t -shirts, pants, watches or glasses capable of taking photographs, sending data, interacting with other devices and facilitating life.

Wearable technology is the next step between the fusion of man and the microprocessor.

Nanotechnology

Nanotechnology intuits the formation, application and use of materials in the nanometric order and its application in the fields of chemistry, biology, physics, engineering and especially medicine, it has resulted in important advances in science. The today called nanomedicine has behaved significant advances in monitoring, tissue repair, diagnosis, treatment and prevention of diseases through the use of tools such as nanosensors, nanoparticles and nanotubes, and in the near future nano robots capable of penetratingThe human organism to repair it. Nanotechnology is in a growth phase and has captured the interest of companies, governments and investors that seek to develop useful products to apply them in different spheres, especially in medicine.

Telemedicine

Telemedicine, a term coined in the 70’s, which literally means "cure at a distance", means the implementation of ICT to improve care and diagnosis of patients through telemedicine. The World Health Organization (WHO) has adopted the following general description.

The supply of health care services in cases where the distance is a critical factor, carried out by health professionals who use information and communication technologies for the exchange of valid information to make diagnoses, prevention and treatment of diseases, diseases,Continuous training of professionals in health care, as well as for research and evaluation activities, in order to improve the health of people and their communities.

Telemedicine is an open and constant science, since it incorporates new advances in technology, it responds and adapts to the health and context needs of society. Some distinguish the telemedicine from TV health restricting the first to the provision of services only by doctors and the second, the services provided by health professionals in general, including nurses, pharmacists and others.

We can highlight telemedicine:

• Its purpose of providing clinical support.
• It is intended to overcome geographical barriers, connecting users who are not in the same physical location.
• It implies the use of various types of ICTs.
• Its objective is to improve health results.

Conclusions

Technology has revolutionized the world and not saying if we apply it to medicine. Technological advances are evolutionary processes for the creation of tools that apply scientific knowledge giving innovation to the human being to be able to develop better. In health, technology is considered to have arrived to fill specific human abilities to better assist people and give them a more successful management of diseases, technology has been applied since years ago in medicine being of great benefit in terms ofperson’s health. Technological advances to health: provide new forms of faster and more effective diagnoses such as telemedicine a faster way of patient that for one reason or another cannot move from one place to another can be done through thetechnology carrying your online consultations. The improvements applied to medicine give a great turn to science and the health sector since there are many beneficial medical technology such as: diagnosis, monitoring or treatment of diseases in a more effective way. Technology and medicine go together since both evolve as the years pass and improve the quality of life of human beings.