tal’s ability to manage manpower and other resources by calculatingHowever, the tags had an unexpected purpose during the pandemic: contact tracing.
Today, several challenges loom on the horizon for healthcare: an ageing population, steadily increasing healthcare costs and insufficient manpower, to name a few. The complex and multi-layered nature of issues in healthcare requires clinicians to approach them from multiple perspectives. However, tunnel vision is one of the largest obstacles that clinicians may face when attempting to brainstorm solutions, particularly in more experienced consultants, says Dr Chen,She explains that this happens because clinicians may often approach a problem without having a holistic understanding of it: “You only really see one side of things as a doctor.
they can then understand where the patient lies relative to other stakeholders such as caregivers and regulatory bodies.to craft a more holistic solution that takes all of these perspectives into account to address the concerns of different stakeholders and improve the quality of care.If students are to think up technology-enabled solutions, they also have to be familiar with – and comfortable operating at – the cutting edge of medical technology.
3D printing is also being used to create realistic patient-specific models in order to better familiarise students with human anatomy and pathology, allowing them to perform more accurate clinical interventions.