High-tech transforming
health infrastructure
As patients‘ expectations grow and health providers work on streamlining care, healthcare organizations will increasingly use advanced automation technologies to take repetitive tasks from the hands of medical staff.
Imagine a clinic where a fully autonomous robot draws your blood, and the medical staff only recommends treatment based on the robot’s work. The new players developing such technologies could potentially disrupt the existing laboratory system by redesigning current standards in testing technologies as these new products can be independent of technologies developed by current market leaders.
Example:
Vitestro, a company based in Utrecht (Netherlands), developed a fully autonomous robot for drawing patient blood. The motivation for the founders of Vitestro was the bad experiences their loved ones had with blood drawing.
The robot uses artificial intelligence with ultrasound-guided 3D reconstruction to guide the needle with high accuracy. Therefore, patients with hardly visible or accessible veins can have their samples taken without problems. Tasks like a tourniquet and bandage application are also performed autonomously. The robot, therefore, improves patients‘ comfort, reduces the need for employees to perform repetitive tasks, and ensures the sample is collected properly and errors in the collection are minimized.