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Transformative tools, unresolved challenges: An integrated review of emerging healthcare technologies
Dibba Praveen Kumar, Suma N, Yaminidevi B, Akhila R, Srinidhi G, Priyadarshini K
Year : 2025 | Pages: 398-405
Received on: 10/09/2025
Revised on: 26/10/2025
Accepted on: 15/11/2025
Published on: 30/11/2025
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Dibba Praveen Kumar, Suma N, Yaminidevi B, Akhila R, Srinidhi G, Priyadarshini K( 2025).
Transformative tools, unresolved challenges: An integrated review of emerging healthcare technologies
. International Journal of Zoology and Applied Biosciences, 10( 6), 398-405.
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Abstract
The COVID?19 pandemic starkly revealed the vulnerabilities of traditional, reactive health systems, catalyzing an unprecedented surge in interest and deployment of healthcare technologies ranging from AI?powered diagnostics and digital therapeutics to biosensor networks, 3D bioprinting, and neural implants. This narrative review synthesizes evidence from peer?reviewed systematic and scoping reviews published between January 2020 and July 2025, spanning eleven emerging technology domains, to assess clinical maturity, ethical implications, equity, scalability, and implementation readiness. Bibliometric and domain?specific data show that digital health publications have more than doubled in key fields such as mHealth, hundreds of thousands of health apps now exist globally, and frameworks like HOT?FIT?BR are being developed to evaluate digital systems in resource?limited environments. While software and wearable?based interventions (e.g., AI mental health platforms, VR for pain) display robust efficacy in controlled settings, many innovations remain in pilot or preclinical stages and are constrained by data fragmentation, interoperability deficits, algorithmic bias, regulatory lag, and infrastructural inequities in low? and middle?income contexts. We argue that technological sophistication must be complemented by access, safety, ethical governance, and sustainability. Future work must emphasize long?term, real?world trials (especially in under?resourced settings), embed equity and ethics into design, adopt adaptive regulatory frameworks, invest in infrastructure and standards, and involve end users in co?design. Only by integrating technological innovation with system?level readiness and human?centred policy can the promise of high?tech healthcare be realized broadly, rather than for a select few.
Keywords
Digital Health Equity, Regulatory & Ethical Governance, Real World Evidence (RWE), Pilot.
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