Healthcare and technology go hand-in-hand. But you may ask yourself where are they going? The Trends in the Digital health area like telemedicine, IoT devices, and virtual reality surgical training are not a science-fiction anymore and continue to attract big investment rounds, helping the industry improve health equity worldwide. It’s not a surprise that the COVID-19 pandemic triggered massive disruption in the healthcare industry and pushed the sector to invest more in innovative new technology. What we can say for sure: digital health trends gained momentum during the pandemic and are predicted to change the future of medicine. As the pandemic reduced in-person visits, healthcare providers had to pivot quickly.

What is obvious: many people would like to be able to carry out a diagnosis, a blood test or a doctor's consultation at home, without having to go out of their way and lose time. So-called TELEHEALTH expanded healthcare access: More people can access health-related services, including medically vulnerable people and people without transportation or a provider in their local area.
But what does it need apart from tablets, mobile phones and computers, to be able to conduct a test at home and get and the fast and reliable result?

ams OSRAM is a global leader in optical technology and sensors. Many biometric sensing applications depend on optical technologies, which offer high sensitivity and the ability to measure multiple parameters. The optical sensor technologies support the development of next-generation point-of-care diagnostics systems, including light detectors, light sources, on-wafer filter technologies and micro-optics lens systems. To find our how these technologies work I invited my colleague Fernando Ammann, Marketing Manager for Digital Health Topics at ams OSRAM being my guest today in the Photon Studio.