OPINION: Five trends that will rule med-tech sector in 2022 (The Week)
COVID-19 has catalyzed technological innovations and discoveries
While the advent of Omicron has spooked Indians as also the world in a reminder that we have still not seen the last of COVID-19 as yet, it goes without saying that the last two years have indeed been turbulent for patients, the healthcare sector and the authorities.
However, the upside has been that the sheer disruptionist nature of this pandemic has also catalysed the rise of an array of technology innovations and discoveries. Whether it is in healthcare devices and equipment, or modes of delivery including remote care and monitoring of patients, or even remote clinical research, or applications supporting evidence-based clinical decision-making or technological advances in epidemiology, there is a lot that has happened in the healthcare space and especially the med-tech sector in the recent past.
Now that we approach the end of 2021, and 2022-beginning is just around the corner, it is an opportune time to envisage and foresee what the New Year could hold for the med-tech sector. Among several possible developments, here are five trends that wil...
