10 Hottest Medical Gadgets in 2024

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Whether you’re a layperson interested in maintaining your own health or someone who works in the healthcare industry, it’s exciting to learn about the new medical gadgets in development and all the various things they can do. These gadgets include wearables, medical robots, 3D printers, and artificial intelligence. Just as technology revolutionizes our everyday lives, so is the field of medicine.

Read on to learn about the hottest medical gadgets for 2024:

Aidmed One

This is a portable, chest-worn device made by the Polish startup Aidmed. It can record blood pressure, temperature, and ECG (electrocardiogram) which will tell you how you (or your patient) are doing.

Nucleus

This is a portable robotic exoskeleton from the Indian company Punar. It can train the paralyzed hands of stroke patients and help them to recover faster.

BIO BOTS

This is an oral healthcare nanobot created by the Indian company Theranautilus. It can help treat tooth sensitivity permanently and can also help promote tooth regeneration.

MARS

MARS or Multi-User Augmented Reality System allows surgeons to get X-ray vision during surgeries. It is one of the hottest medical gadgets in 2024 that will allow surgeons to see the images without looking away from the patient and will also guide their instruments and implants.

HEARThermo

This is a wristband from the Taiwanese company Nightingale. The wristband monitors body temperature and heart rate and can also help predict infections.

PneumoWave

PneumoWave is a UK-based company that is coming up with a biosensor that can help people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). It captures and analyzes pulmonary data, thus making it easier to tell when the patient’s condition might worsen.

HYDRAFIL

This is a system which uses hydrogel technology. It is a minimally invasive system that can help patients with chronic back pain. HYDRAFIL is from the US-based startup ReGelTec.

VisionAir Solutions

This is the name of a US-based startup that is making 3D-printed stents. When a patient has a central airway obstruction, a 3D-printed silicone stent can help them to breathe easier.

Elo

This is a device from the Singaporean company EloCare. It can monitor symptoms and collect data for women undergoing menopause. The data can then be transferred directly to the physician through the Internet of Medical Things and can help to determine if any lifestyle or medical changes are needed.

WarnerPatch

This is a 5G-connected medical patch from the UK startup M2JN. This patch monitors regional soft tissue health, so it can help in detecting diabetic wounds and post-surgical repairs.

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How to Reduce Prescription Errors in 21st Century Pharmacies

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It may seem like a contradiction but the pharmacy of the 21st century will feature both robotic automation and greater interaction between pharmacists and patients.

prescription pharmacyPharmacy automation has been steadily making its way into many pharmacies throughout the country. Robotic systems from companies like Aesynt, Parata Systems and RxMedic sort and dispense pills, which spares pharmacists from work that takes a lot of time and can lead to human error. It’s hard to put a firm number on presciption errors but the Food and Drug Administration says it has received close to 30,000 reports of medication errors since 1992. With many pills looking alike and many drug names sounding similar, automated systems offer a better way of checking and verifying that patients receive only drug they were prescribed.

Another technology development that will change the pharmacy of the 21st century is the adoption of electronic prescribing, which gives doctors the ability to send prescriptions electronically to a pharmacy. E-prescribing reduces the chances for error that can come from misreading a doctor’s handwriting.

As for the pharmacists themselves, the evolution of pharmacist training is changing the profession. Compared to decades ago, today’s pharmacists can be more specialized and they enter the field with more specialized training, pharmacy consultant Ernest Gates tells Drug Topics. Some of these pharmacists will work in specialty pharmacies in areas such as oncology, geriatrics and diabetes among other areas of specialization.

Pharmacists who aren’t specialists can still expect to take on more responsibilities as a consequence of the Affordable Care Act. With the law’s expansion of Medicaid, Daniel Brown, a pharmacist and professor at the pharmacy school at Palm Beach Atlantic University, tells Medscape that he expects community pharmacies to see more Medicaid prescriptions. He also sees the increase in this patient traffic presenting additional opportunities for pharmacists to talk to patients about preventive services. Here’s where pharmacy automation is important. Automation doesn’t replace pharmacists. Instead, it provides a remedy to busy pharmacists – these systems free pharmacists to spend more of their time counseling patients instead of sorting pills. If the expected increase in patient traffic to pharmacies holds true, time savings found with automation will become very valuable.

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