Good day, everyone. Kevin Baylor, Alliance IT and I thought I would throw our third session of our Seaside Chat out to you today. Hope all is going well for everyone. So sit back, relax, and I’ll try to give you some updates and foresight into tech in 2020 and some of the industries out there that we feel are going to have an impact on small and mid-size business.
So in the healthcare world, we’ve got a few top trends we think are going to be hitting a little bit stronger and not only does it affect the healthcare business world as well, it’s going to affect the healthcare consumer world and in theory, make our lives a little bit better and hopefully healthier. IoT, Internet of Things. We’ve heard that term for umpteen years and we are going to continue hearing it. We use it in our everyday lives at home.
But in the healthcare industry, we are going to see that IoT get mixed in with AI and hopefully we don’t call it AIoT. But the artificial intelligence is going to get mixed more and more in with Internet of Things. We are going to have smarter devices that are trying to better our lives, analyze data faster, more accurately, and provide faster and more accurate results. And in healthcare, more accurate results means we are going to be a little bit healthier, a little bit quicker hopefully, and on the mend a little bit quicker as well.
From wearables to devices in the hospitals and medical facilities, we are going to see that AI and that IoT mixing together more and more as 2020 approaches and the years to come as well.
In addition to the artificial intelligence that’s out there that’s mixing in with IoT, those results that they determined, a lot of times are going to require things to be created. Hence, our 3D printing is going to continue to expand into the healthcare market whether it’s going to be heart, lung, tissue, prosthetics, and all of that is going to require technology. So you’re going to have to have technology and a good infrastructure behind all of those consumer-facing solutions that’s going to be coming up more and more in the healthcare market.
And as we get more AI and more IoT and more devices, there’s going to be an increase need for security. That security is never going to go away. The more devices we have out there, the more susceptible something is going to be, more susceptible somebody will be to hacks or breaches. So you don’t want to be walking around with a 3D printed artificially intelligent IoT part and get hacked. So, maybe a little bit of a stretch right now but not necessarily maybe five years from now.
