Medical Technologies IKC | 12
Companion
technologies
As medicine becomes
more personalised,
developing
technologies that help
clinicians understand
the needs of each
individual patient
becomes ever more
important.
Companion technologies being developed
by the Medical Technologies IKC will
help clinicians to understand more about
a disease or a defect in the context of
patients’ personal circumstances, which
will help them to make the right treatment
decisions and offer more precise surgery.
The companion technologies
being developed by the Medical
Technologies IKC are designed to
do exactly this, from developing
new imaging technologies that
can give rapid diagnosis of heart
attack to supporting new diagnostic
technologies that can detect
disease biomarkers or predict
a patient’s likely response to
treatment.
Progress in this area is particularly
needed in the field of orthopaedics,
where medical intervention often
only happens once a joint has
failed and joint replacement
surgery is the only option.
Companion technologies being
developed by the Medical
Technologies IKC will help
clinicians to understand more
about a disease or a defect in
the context of patients’ personal
circumstances, which will help
them to make the right treatment
decisions and offer more
precise surgery.
This is particularly important when
making a case for early-stage
clinical intervention: with the right
imaging and diagnostic tools,
patients can be offered effective
therapies that will enable them
to heal faster and enjoy a better
quality of life for longer.