New Tech Flix documentary on the future of
healthcare features Philips’ Atul Gupta, MD

Maturing technologies like artificial intelligence, robotics, augmented reality, and the continuous development of image-guided therapies set to revolutionize healthcare delivery over the next decade.
 

In a recent Nash Squared Tech Flix documentary on the future of healthcare, Philips Chief Medical Officer for Image-Guided Therapy Atul Gupta, who gave a keynote speech at the 2022 Web Summit on how augmented reality (AR) is revolutionizing healthcare, was interviewed by Nash Squared's Group Technology Evangelist David Savage. In the video, Atul is asked what other innovations might have the biggest impact on people’s care in the next decade. 

Atul Gupta: “Let's first take a step back and figure out what are we trying to fix? What are the challenges that hospitals, caregivers, even governments across the world are facing? There's no question that hospital systems around the world are under increasing pressure. Patients are getting older. They're getting sicker. And so what that means is that workloads are intensifying for physicians and also for the staff . . . healthcare funds are shrinking no matter where you are in the world. So we have more patients, sicker patients, staff shortages, less money, and we desperately need to use technology to increase efficiency. . . I think innovations like telehealth, augmented reality, artificial intelligence (AI), robotics, automation are the types of things that are going to revolutionize care . . . because they're going to help seasoned physicians do even more, take care of more patients, more efficiently, more easily, maybe even remotely.”.

As Atul goes on to point out, it’s not just staff shortages and efficiency that technology will help to address. He also highlights the potential for technological innovation to dramatically improve patient outcomes and the patient experience. As an example, he cites new innovations in image-guided minimally-invasive surgery that could lead to the same-day, same-room diagnosis and treatment of early-stage lung cancer, which if left untreated until it has grown and spread is one of today’s biggest killers.

“If I have to predict the future of healthcare, I am confident technology is going to make it faster. It's going to be more precise. It's going to be more personalized. It's going to be done and done first time right, and care is going to be more accessible. It's going to take place closer to you, not just in a hospital. So the future of healthcare – it’s extraordinarily exciting. These emerging technologies, things like image-guided therapy, AI, AR, robotics, automation, telehealth, are just now starting to mature and so we're going to see them unleashed over the next decade,” says Atul. 

To view the full Nash Squared Tech Flix documentary, click here. And to learn more about image-guided therapy and Atul’s vision for the future, click here.