10 healthcare tech trends to watch in 2015

Laura Pedulli | | Health Exec | Artificial Intelligence

 

Disinfection robots and 3-D Printing Buzz top the ECRI Institute’s list of top 10 technologies for health executives to watch in 2015.

“C-suite leaders need a concise way of seeing where new and emerging health technologies fit, if at all, in their health systems,” said Diane Robertson, director of the institute's health technology assessment, in a statement. “Backed by our unbiased, evidence-based research, our annual Watch List helps hospital leaders make technology and infrastructure decisions based on clinical evidence and cost.”

Here is ECRI Institute’s list:

  1. Disinfection robots
  2. Three-dimensional printing buzz
  3. Middleware is everywhere
  4. Postdischarge clinics
  5. Google Glass
  6. New anti-obesity devices
  7. Caring for Millennials with cancer
  8. Fecal microbiota therapy
  9. Artificial pancreas device systems
  10. Telehealth

Read the list.

Laura Pedulli

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