Health sector has always been the primary adopter of new technology. Electronic devices abound in health facilities; health laboratories use them along with other devices. But wherever they get used, they become integral part of the process: they help in precision of service and reduce human efforts.

It turns out, however, with the advances in technology, health sector can do much more than its current threshold. They can provide rapid services with precise information, collect data for analysis and can help in overcoming the current limitations. Health researchers have recognized technology as a complementary but essential entity in health sector. And because many cognitive and medical researches are in the verge of getting major successes, they are being taken as de regueur in health related developments.

Kidney failure stands as one of the most challenging problems mankind has ever faced. A patient who has kidney failure does not have many options for treatment. He can either go for dialyses, a painstaking task where the patient is injected into his body tubes for blood refining, three times a week for three to four hours or he has the option for kidney transplantation from a healthy source. The latter however, is a costly, if not a fortuitous, process and requires a patient to be under constant medication in order to prepare the body for foreign tissue implant.

Dialysis machines found today are large devices that imitate the functions of biological kidneys. Its blood cleansing work however, is not a perfect one and causes bleeding, clotting and infection apart from the inconvenience that a patient feels, who needs to be hooked up to the device every time during the process. Still, dialyses remains as the best option for kidney failure for most of the patients – not all are fortunate to get a transplant.

A world where the regeneration of kidneys through patient’s own cells remains way off. Recent developments in kidney failure studies however, have found some promising alternatives. Tiny versions of dialysis machines are being produced. These machines just under 5 kilograms are almost portable and yet be as effective as their predecessor; just some of the recent tech-driven developments today. The developments however are under research, almost industrial manufacturing ready and cost much high. Nonetheless, their upcoming contributions to living being could well worth be of waiting for.