Augmented Reality Helping Vein Scanners – Too Distant A Dream In Healthcare?

Vascular access is the most common invasive medical procedure. It is foundational to many diagnostic and clinical procedures. So the number of potential procedures available for visualization is huge. Using augmented reality in finding veins accurately for a blood draw was one of the very first practical uses of augmented reality (AR) technology. I expected the concept to bloom from the very first use case and clinical tests.  There is an issue down at the very base of medicine – 70 percent of medical decisions are based on the results of blood testing, yet, the majority of people carry a deeply rooted fear against needles and blood drawing altogether. So the technology has a real problem to solve and it was proven to be able to solve it, too. But why haven’t vein scanners become part of everyday medicine yet? We dived in to find out. Related Vein Scanners: Examples For DisruptionWould You Let A Robot Take Your Blood Sample? Building a magical device not just a product I have long expected vein scanners and similar technologies like automated blood draw to be part of the medical practice by now. After all, artificial intelligence-led robots have better accuracy in finding veins simply because these machines take the guesswork out of the equation and actually see where the veins are and draw the blood from the exact place they want to draw from. However, as it turns out, we, humans, have this thing with robots drawing our blood. Whether it...
Source: The Medical Futurist - Category: Information Technology Authors: Tags: Augmented Reality Health Sensors & Trackers Portable Medical Diagnostics blood draw AccuVein vein scanner Source Type: blogs