10 new medical technologies of 2016

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Virtual reality . Emergence of Google Inc. Cardboard — the cardboard VR helmet created within experiment of Google Inc. — marked break in the field of VR technologies. Today VR glasses of the company of Sotsialnaya set Facebook can freely be acquired on the Internet, and there are no doubts that shortly the virtual reality will seize all spheres, including medicine. By means of VR technologies medical students will see that happens to their patients, and patients, in turn, will visually present that them expects within this or that medical procedure. It is known that ignorance and misunderstanding causes a big stress, and the superrealistic illustration by means of VR will help the patient of this stress to avoid.

Dopolnennaya reality Chapter Novartis Int AG announced fast emergence of digital contact lenses. Equally as became possible to measure level of glucose in blood by means of tears, the technology of digital contact lenses has to influence control of diabetes and its treatment. Besides, points of the mixed reality of Microsoft COR HoloLens will play a significant role in educational process: both in the medicine sphere, and in architecture and engineering. For example, with their help medical students will be able to spend for virtual opening unlimited number of time in day, and opening can be carried out at any angle and without any hint on a formaldehyde smell.
"Clever" fabrics . The "clever" Fibretronic clothes — are clothes in which material the microchip is built in. Microchips can react to anything: and on weather, and even on mood of the owner. Google Inc. in cooperation with the producer of Levi's clothes was engaged in development of the materials "fibertonik" — fabric which will present new forms of technological interaction of our clothes with environment. In 2016 within conference of Google Inc. I/O the company announced emergence of a "clever" jeans jacket for cyclists (the jacket is synchronized with gadgets which help to make a route etc.) . Start in mass production of an innovative jacket is planned for 2017. It is worth expecting that the following experiments with "clever" clothes it is mentioned health and medicine spheres.
Intellektualny analysis algorithm of these wearable gadgets . ZOZh again in fashion, and together with it gain popularity the gadgets connected with sports, and health trackers. Following demand (and the offer), the Amazon company started the special trade section for similar devices, having sold million trackers of activity. However to receive and process really valuable information from an infinite data flow of trackers not so simply. Algorithms which will be able to synchronize these data with others (for example, received of other devices and appendices) are necessary and will draw important conclusions. Such advanced trackers — a potential step forward in the field of prevention of diseases and control of health. The Exist.io appendix tries to realize similar idea (a slogan — "Watch everything in one place. Understand the life"), but it only the first attempts, and ahead still a long way.
Almost artificial intelligence in the field of radiology . The supercomputer of IBM Watson equipped with question-answer system of artificial intelligence, was used in oncology for the help in adoption of medical decisions. This system showed the advantages: statement of the diagnosis and treatment choice by means of a supercomputer were cheaper and more effective. The ambitious IBM Medical Sieve project is directed on diagnosing as much as possible diseases thanks to the clever software. It will give the chance to doctors-radiologists to concentrate on the most important and difficult cases instead of checking hundreds pictures daily. Medical Sieve, according to the IBM company — this new generation in the field of medical technologies. The device uses expanded multimodal analytics and clinical knowledge, is capable to analyze and propose solutions in the field of cardiology and radiology. Among advantages of Medical Sieve — deep understanding of diseases, their interpretation in several formats (x-ray, ultrasonography, KT, MRT, PET, clinical tests). Food scanner . Molecular scanners, such as Scio and Tellspec, not are the first year in the attention center. If in 2015 producers sent scanners to the first clients, in the next years mini-scanners considerably will expand the geography and become available worldwide. It will allow to know for certain what exactly is in our plate: fine opportunity not only for those who keeps a figure, but also for people with an allergy to foodstuff.
Chelovekopodobny robot . The engineering company Boston Dynamics — one of the most promising companies on development of robots. Since they in 2013 were got by Google Inc., Boston Dynamics let out video tizery new robots: brutish and anthropomorphous Petman. Biped Petman was created for tests of means of individual protection and it is considered the first anthropomorphous robot moving as the person. There is a chance to expect new inventions from Boston Dynamics which will be useful including to medicine. 3D-bioprinting . The American company Organovo became the first, turned technology 3D-bioprintinga in business. In 2014 representatives of Organovo declared successful experience 3D - the biopress of tissues of a liver. Probably, only some years separate us from that moment when the 3D-bioprinting will start using at transplantation of parts of a liver. But first of all can use the biopress of tissues of a liver — to refuse animal experiments for the analysis of toxicity of new preparations. Internet of things: control of health from the house . Many inventions from area of the Internet of things, such as a "clever" toothbrush or a digital mirror, appeared in 2015. Every year they become more available to mass audience. But the global purpose of the Internet of things — to teach "to communicate" among themselves all these subjects, controlling and analyzing the most different changes, and to draw conclusions about a state of health of their owner.
Theranos Experience . The history of the Theranos company which developed technology of the analysis and a blood sampling without use of syringes, ended with scandal. Despite it the idea still sounds attractively. Probably, another will come to change to the startup which has lost trust. Anyway, technologies in the field of the analysis of blood remain actual for researchers and attractive to businessmen.

Besides, one of the most perspective directions in genetic engineering still have the CRISPR method: probably, it is worth expecting break in this area.

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Organizations
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Google
Main activity:Science and education
138
3
Novartis Int AG
Main activity:Health care and social services
3
120
Amazon. com, Inc
Main activity:Retail trade
120
3
IBM
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3
Organovo
Main activity:Communication and IT
Technologies
Technology ranking
17
Virtual reality
Technologies
17
94
94
33
33
3D - bioprinting
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The mixed reality
Technologies
4