10 Years Beyond: The Role of Biomedical Informatics in the Healthcare of the Future If anyone were to predict the future of medicine ten years ago, I am sure that only the most optimistic of people may have gotten some predictions right. The future of healthcare, which is based on countless variables, is difficult to predict, but one thing is certain: computation will be one of the most crucial aspects of its progress. Whether for diagnosis or treatment, computational algorithms are ubiquitous. Advances in electronics and computing are immediately being used to improve healthcare and solve current problems such as high costs, disintegrated care, and human errors. With personal electronics faithfully abiding by Moore's Law, the technology has already put high computational potential in everyone's pockets. It is entirely reasonable to expect that the collection of information important for diagnosis will be shifted towards the patient. Patients will also collect information from inside their bodies using smart pills and labs on chips. This rich treasure of information will be archived in a worldwide database. See healthcare in a more decentralized structure. Medicine's dependence on calculus is therefore set to increase. It's a pretty credible idea that healthcare will follow an exponential growth pattern just as computational sciences have. Therefore the tendency to measure simple parameters such as heart rate and body glucose level with the patient's phone will give way to complicated diagnoses with processing and communication equipment now firmly planted in everyone's pockets. Recent research aims to develop diagnostic software that analyzes muscle tremors in the...... middle of paper ...... uses human potential based on allocating resources to the latest problems that are truly relevant for humanity. It appears that the future of healthcare will involve improving and integrating the technology and innovations of the last decade from individual fields into a multidimensional system. Biomedical informatics could likely continue to be one of the most effective means of identifying solutions to current healthcare problems such as lack of access to care, disintegrated care, high costs, failure to adopt innovations, and insufficient access to data. Biomedical computing shows promise in bringing healthcare to the less fortunate by reducing expenses and creating more robust, scalable, and portable technologies. The future is certainly bright with the current progression, but it seems like there is still a lot of work to be done.