The physician and the hospital concentrate much more on prevention and aftercare, instead of having their focus on the acute phase of medical care. we have seen rapid progress over many years in the miniaturization and digitization of electronics, in low-power electronics, in faster computing with ever smaller computers, in data storage in larger and flatter displays. This progress is continuing at unchanged speed.
These developments in electronics have enabled progress in medical technologies over a wide field, including real-time 3D imaging with ever higher resolution, image processing and computer-aided detection of clinically relevant data, implantable devices, sensor systems in and on the body, and many more. Future technological innovation is going to keep transforming healthcare, yet while technologies (new drugs and treatments, new devices, new social media support for healthcare, etc.) will drive innovation, human factors will remain one of the stable limitations of breakthroughs.
