Techpally infer Hologram in revolutionizing diagnostic procedures

Medical imaging has improved significantly over the past few decades.

With the help of innovative radiological methods, precise images of the human organism can be generated using computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRT) and other X-ray techniques.

Before now, the generated 3D images could only be used on monitors to carry out diagnostic findings and derive therapy recommendations, says Akin Chaktty.

Due to the computer-aided options available today for expanding reality using augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR), these images can increasingly also be viewed as hologramsbe projected.

How can the diagnostic and therapeutic process be improved using hologram technology?

Welcome to the world of augmented reality

AR, VR or a combination of both approaches in the form of mixed reality (MR) or extended reality (ER) are already established in various areas of life.

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This primarily includes entertainment electronics that make computer games, for example, appear much more realistic.

 However, they are already being used in medical areas. Among other things, VR is used to combat phobias. 

On the other hand, AR concepts primarily offer support in the training of medical professionals.

According to Businesspally, The market for VR applications in Germany will roughly double from an estimated EUR 260 million in 2021 to around EUR 530 million in 2024.

 A larger part of the turnover is now attributable to hardware (160 million euros, 2021), while content or software accounts for 100 million euros.

 This distribution will shift in favor of content (€280 million) until 2024, while forecasts assume that the hardware share of sales will decrease (€250 million), according to Techpally Business.

This trend can be seen in all technologies that have lower unit costs as a result of widespread adaptation (5) due to economies of scale in hardware production. 

The expensive component of VR technology is VRGlasses, for example the HoloLens from Microsoft (6). With hologram technology, VR is mostly used in current concepts, AR and MR rather rarely.

 The key figures show that the technology used is constantly being further developed and is tending to become cheaper, so that it can be attractive for standard care in the future. 

As a result, hologram-supported diagnostic methods can gain in importance.

A higher benefit only with high investments

For widespread use, falling costs of the technology are necessary.

 These are also to be expected due to the spread of the technology in the entertainment industry and increasingly also in Industry 4.0, as the sales forecasts make clear.

With that, the VR Technology also affordable for the outpatient sector in standard care. 

One problem at the moment is the high investment requirement for high-tech equipment. 

In clinics, the investment funds are not sufficient to invest in innovative diagnostic procedures for which there is no refinancing, says Healthpally experts.

Therefore, only pure research projects that cover the high acquisition costs of the equipment are currently worthwhile in Germany.

 A similar problem is evident in the outpatient sector, where high-tech diagnostics is only profitable if there are a large number of corresponding billing cases. 

A a result, only larger practices, medical care centers or polyclinics at universities can use hologram technology to cover their costs in the medium term.

As a second factor, the high data load and the associated data storage and processing capacities should also be taken into account. 

As a result of the advancing digital transformation of clinics, including the means and measures of the KHZG, the framework conditions for hospitals could be in place in the future. 

Smaller medical practices in particular may not yet have an adequate digital infrastructure to process holograms in real time using VR.

In principle, the government should think about technology and data processing promotion programs in order to include outpatient care to an adequate degree in high-tech care.