The rate in which technology is influencing patient care and aiding physician service providers, is outstanding, according to the recent article, “Five hot trends in healthcare technologies,” which was reported in the on-line publication, ZDNet.

The articled focused on New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) Professor Atam Dhawan, and how he has named the five areas that unite technology and medicine, greatly impacting the medical world, and healthcare, overall.

Among today’s biggest medical trends, listed by Dhawan are: robots, tissue engineering and regenerative medicine, neuroscience, point-of-care technologies, and optical imaging.

“Our goal is to investigate which biological and biomedical engineering technologies are likely to become important within the next decade,” Dhawan said, in a university release. “For many people, a healthier tomorrow lies in advancements ranging from biomarkers for early diagnosis and monitoring to neural system engineering.”

Dhawan says that these technological advances in the medical industry will play key functions in saving lives. For example, the article explains that “optical imaging technologies will find greater use for diagnosing and staging cancer, cardiovascular diseases, and other fibrotic diseases.”

Hospitals also are likely to begin seeing bio-robots and such, as technology continues to take off, and play a key role in the future of patient care.

“These robots will develop novel nano micro and macro devices to assist in diagnosis, surgery, prosthetics, rehabilitation and personal assistance,” said Dhawan. “Clinical, therapeutic and surgical applications of medical robots with advanced instrumentation, sensors, actuators and real-time systems could make a revolutionary impact in medicine and healthcare.”