1. Remote Diagnostics, Remote Monitoring, and Remote Care Management
Remote care refers to the delivery of care at a location and time that is convenient for all members within the circle of care.
2. Point-of-Care Testing
Point-of-care refers to testing outside of a centralized laboratory and has a variety of potential applications for screening and diagnosis.
3. Molecular and Genomic Testing
Molecular and genomic testing refers to medical tests that can detect individuals’ unique genetic and/or protein make up to inform treatment and care.
4. Health Apps and Wearable Technologies (mHealth)
Mobile health apps are a growing field of digital health technologies, and are intended for the diagnosis, treatment, or prevention of health conditions or diseases.
5. Companion Diagnostics
Companion diagnostics tests support the expansion of personalized medicine by assessing predictive biomarkers, such as genetic variation or protein expression, in individual people to determine the safe and effective use of an associated therapy.
6. Voice Technology
Voice technology has many applications within the virtual care space, including conversational artificial intelligence technology (e.g., Chatbots), voice assistants for health assessment, diagnostics, and companionship for patients.
7. Artificial Intelligence for Diagnostics and Public Health
Artificial intelligence (AI) is an umbrella term used to describe a variety of approaches that let computer programs perform tasks that have been traditionally done by humans.
8. Advanced Closed-Loop Insulin Pumps
Advanced closed-loop insulin pumps are an important development within diabetes care because as they use sensing technologies and artificial intelligence algorithms to automatically adjust insulin in response to predicted glucose levels.
9. Portable Dialysis Machines
Emerging portable dialysis machines present a new generation of devices that may provide people with kidney failure more options to access a home-based, point-of-care alternative to conventional dialysis at a hospital or clinic.
10. Artificial Intelligence for Health Care Professionals
Another emerging application of artificial intelligence (AI) within the health care system is to change the way health professionals approach patient consultations and develop treatment plans.
