2023-05-23 01:00:44
- 3D printing, for example, brings endless benefits to improve the quality of life of both doctors and patients.
- Building hospitals equipped with all this technology is a slow process but it is worth trying.
- Robotics and design make it possible to improve hospital conditions for the benefit of professionals and patients.
The world is transformed every day and one of the main culprits is technology. One of the main objectives of innovation is to facilitate daily tasks in every way. While now the Hospitals of the future have become the modality of greatest apogee.
Traditional hospitals are doomed to extinction. This is what the study predicted. Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA)led by Rem Koolhaas, who affirmed that with the pandemic, healthcare spaces were given new meaning.
The mission: implement new tools to optimize internal processes. In addition, freeing staff from routine tasks and improving the precision of procedures with the help of technological devices and artificial intelligence, aiming to build a self-sufficient hospital of the future where the patient is even treated individually and remotely.
Main characteristics of the hospitals of the future
Robots in hospitals, adapted to the latest technology, facilitate healthcare work, contribute to making better diagnoses for the treatment and prevention of diseases. They also perform surgeries with greater precision and control, allowing the patient to recover in less time and with less trauma and scarring. Surgical robots are capable of biopsies, guided radiotherapy, drug administration, and personalized therapies.
Faced with the moral dilemma posed by the entry of such technology into such a human field of action, the discussion is fueled about what place workers in the sector will occupy in the future.
Jordi Blasi, industrial designer, director of the Master in Product Design at ESDESIGN and member of ADI-FAD, the Association of Industrial Designers of Barcelona, explains: “This will have an impact on jobs, but it will also open up new possibilities in relation to new occupations, for example in design, manufacturing or handling and maintenance of the new robots”.
And regarding the human factor, he adds that the Robotics will hardly be able to replace the empathic capacity that characterizes us as human beings. Essential requirement in this sector.
It is true that the good use of technology does not have to worry, knowing its enormous advantages. 3D printing, for example, brings endless benefits to improve the quality of life of both doctors and patients.beyond the well-known manufacture of custom-made prostheses and implants.
“3D printing makes it possible to manufacture printed anatomical models to educate patients and professionals, as well as to plan surgical procedures, increasing precision and decreasing surgical time. In addition, prototypes of medical devices can be printed, speeding up design times and saving production costs, as well as manufacturing artificial tissues and organs, and they are even investigating how this technology can contribute to the treatment of cancer and kidney failure”.
Hospitals of the future in Latin America, possible or distant?
Talking about the future and the vanguard in Latin America is complex, given the levels of inequality that characterize it. Building hospitals equipped with all this technology is a slow process, but according to Esdesign professor Jordi Blasi, it is worth trying.
“The construction of state-of-the-art hospitals can be expensive, depending on the level of technological sophistication, but the benefits in the medium and long term must also be taken into account, in relation to, for example, the diagnosis and treatment of diseases, a shorter recovery time for patients or greater safety for health workers.”
Although the large capitals of the continent can participate in these processes, the great challenge lies in the peripheral and low-income areas of the countries, which is where optimal health care is most needed.
In recent years, Latin America has had initiatives related to care and prevention programs for viral diseases such as the Dengue, Chikungunya and Zika, which are along the lines of Hepatitis, Tuberculosis or HIV, and added to the efforts of medicine in the regions, it is possible to start to innovate little by little with the new technological tools that design and health provide. We are not too far.
Jordi Blasi points out that there are reference cities such as Chile, Mexico, Argentina or Brazil, which have begun to “develop initiatives to promote the use of telemedicine and establish regulatory and legal frameworks for its implementation. Telemedicine can also be a great ally in the socio-health sector, but the lack of ICT infrastructure is making its implementation difficult.
However, intelligent design could make it possible to upgrade medical care in these difficult regions, although not with all the technological potential, but with essential resources that would represent a significant change.
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