Medicine and technology are converging at a faster pace than most people realize, says New Jersey Institute of Technology Professor Atam Dhawan, chair of the the IEEE emerging technology committee.
Here are the five “hot spots” of convergence identified by Professor Dhawan:
Point of care health care technologies — connecting patients with healthcare professionals via computers. This includes nursing engineering, health monitoring, e-health, and health care information management for disaster situations.
Optical imaging technologies — diagnosing and staging cancer, cardiovascular diseases, and other fibrotic diseases. This includes discovery and exploration of naturally existing molecular targets of diseases and the differences associated with the molecular targets between normal and diseased states, as well as diagnosis and treatment.
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