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Telemedicine apps.... technology trends in Healthcare 2021:

The unprecedented havoc caused by the Covid pandemic has badly shaken all facets of the healthcare industry globally , in a very short span of time.

Today AI in healthcare, along with some other important technologies, have become even more critical to resolve the new crisis and for facilitating future growth.

Following are some of the key healthcare technology trends in 2021 :

Telemedicine:

Covid-19 has greatly accelerated the use of telehealth resources.
One of the major benefits of telehealth is reduction of contact between patients, healthcare workers, and other patients.

Today healthcare workers can have real-time information on patient data through wearable devices, while remaining at home.

While occupying a major space during the ongoing pandemic, the growth of telehealth is likely to continue even when the pandemic will be over.

In U.S.A., 71% of patients have considered telemedicine at the beginning of the pandemic. 50% of patients have already availed virtual appointments.

Telehealth has been rising in popularity even in the years before the pandemic, . However the Covid 19 undoubtedly acted as a major boost to the development of the telehealth sector.

According to one estimate, this boom in telehealth can surpass $185 billion by 2026.

The most important aspect of telehealth’s success is patient adoption.With the increasing comfort level of a large section of patients with telehealth solutions, it’s clear that the industry has a growing future.

It is the tele-medicine apps., through which the most robust telehealth services are provided. WebRTC is one of the most important technologies behind tele-medicine apps .It is an open-source API-based system which connects mobile applications with web browsers.
One of the most important aspects of WebRTC is its versatility. This makes it essential for telemedicine apps enabling useful features like text and video chat, screen sharing, and file transfer.

Electronic health records (EHR) are also important to get integrated into the telemedicine app. This enables patients and healthcare providers to see patient medical records in the app. To disseminate and relay communication to patients through digital speech, Interactive Voice Response (IVR) is integrated, which is also extremely useful for the app.

For enabling the app to access existing health information, available on a patient’s smartphone, Google fit and Apple HealthKit integration also provide valuable support and opportunities . For all the processes to function cloud-based server solutions are also critical.

Some of the most important features of a telemedicine app are: security, location services, appointment management, video/audio communication, secure messaging, healthcare provider reviews, visit history, and wireless testing through wearable integration.

From security to accessibility, all these features are essential for a modern and efficient telemedicine app.

Emerging technology and future employment generation...the awesome duo :

Edge Computing

Cloud computing has already occupied the central stage and while the adoption of it is still growing , with more and more businesses migrating to a cloud solution, it’s no longer an "emerging" technology trend.

However the volume of data various companies are dealing with these days, continues to rise exponentially. This makes them realise the limitations of cloud computing in certain circumstances thus paving way for Edge computing as a new emerging trend.

Edge computing is designed to resolve some of those problems . It emerges as an alternative and better choice to bypass the latency caused by cloud computing, subsequently processing data by getting it to a data center.
In other words Edge computing can be used to process time-sensitive data in remote locations. It will have limited or zero connectivity to a centralized location. In such situations, edge computing can act like mini data centers.

Edge computing will increase as use of the Internet of Things (IoT) devices increases. By 2022, the global edge computing market is expected to reach $6.72 billion. And this new technology trend is only meant to grow and nothing less, creating various jobs, primarily for software engineers.

Artificial Intelligence:

AI continues to be one of the emerging new technology trends because its notable effects on our life are only in its early stages.

AI is already known for its huge contributions in image and speech recognition, navigation apps, smartphone personal assistants, ride-sharing apps and so on.

AI will be further enhance analysing interactions , determining surrogate and underlying connections and insights, thus helping to predict demand for services like hospitals etc. This in turn focuses on enabling authorities to make better decisions about resource utilization as well as to detect the changing patterns of customer behaviour. This is done by analyzing data in near real-time, driving revenues and ensuring personalized experiences.

By 2025 The AI market is projected grow to a $190 billion industry. The global spending on cognitive and AI systems is predicted to reach over $57 billion in 2021. With AIflourishing across sectors, new jobs will be created in development, programming, testing, support and maintenance, to name a few.

AI also provides some of the highest salary package today, in the areas of machine learning engineering and AI architecture , making it a top emerging technology trend of modern times.

Machine Learning being the subset of AI, is aldeployed in various categories of industries, creating a huge demand for highly skilled knowledge professionals

New initiative for self-sufficiency in hi-tech semiconductor manufacturing :

There was a time when India used to take pride in it's own high technology manufacturing companies like 'Semiconductor Limited', that manufactured chips in it's iconic chip making plant in Chandigar, India.

Such companies stagnated , and today USA, South Korea and Japan are the largest manufacturers of semiconductors with an estimated trillion dollar global turnover in the domain of electronic industry .The industrial segment is further expanding in leaps and bounds with greater focus on Robotics, IoT and Artificial Intelligence .

However , the Indian government has now taken it up seriously and has decided to set up a high powered committee to facilitate investments in the field of high- technology manufacturing, including semiconductors.

The chairman of the 10 member committee will be the minister of commerce & industry. The panel that will facilitate investment and production will comprise eminent industry leaders like N Chandrashekharan, Chairman Tata Sons, Pawan Goenka , Managing Director and CEO Mahindra Group, Baba Kalyani, Chairman , Bharat Forge etc. The panel also includes Mr Angshuman Tripathi, an expert in the field of semiconductor.
The empowered committee will conduct meetings where the secretaries in various key government departments, including economic affairs, revenue, expenditure and sponsoring etc., will be actively involved

Cybersecurity and Cryptography:

Cyber security is needed to protect devices and systems from unauthorized access and surreptitious intrusions. It is a major concern for the Internet and the systems based or built on it.

Cyber warfare and cyber crime can cause large scale cumulative devastation , leading to wide ranging loss of mutual trust and credibility between clients, associates and service provideturs.

Cyber attacks can be in the form of hack, where an intruder/attacker can take away valuable data e.g. credit card information, or intellectual property, which may even include design of a company's next product or other sensitive information.

Cyber attacks can also take the form of distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS).
In DDoS the attacker compromises the security and safety of a target by flooding it with requests from multiple systems.

Major reason behind cyber vulnerabilities:

Even today adequate care and attention towards security are not given when computer systems and software applications are designed .The Domain Name System (DNS), for instance, is not always designed with complete attention to security .

Implementation of cyber security involves software, hardware as well as human initiative components.

Human initiative needs to be taken for implementing policies such as carefully choosing strong passwords and being careful not to divulge them. Software needs to be regularly updated to fix its vulnerabilities. Incorporation of strong antivirus software and firewalls can effectively help prevent unauthorized access to private data.

The role of Cryptography :

Cryptography and its innovative application are essential to most cyber security models. Cryptography applies algorithms to arrange the bits that represent data. It can be done in a way only authorized users can rearrange them to obtain the original data. Cryptographic algorithms use mathematics to achieve effective shuffling and rearrangements.
The algorithms are known and published for most common Cryptographic standards, but deft application of mathematics make it impractical to decode the shuffled bits.

Open standards ensures security of cryptography. Symmetric encryption involves the same key For both encryption and decryption, symmetric encryption involves the same key.

On the other hand , public key encryption, is not symmetric. It is an encryption method that is widely used because of the better security associated with it. Certificate authorities (CAs) issue digital certificates that validate the ownership of encrypted keys by issuing digitak used in secured communication and are based on a trust model.