GRSHE Seminar: Quantum Technologies: The future of Swedish healthcare?

Quantum technologies are widespread in healthcare today, but when will the health-related promises of new quantum technologies become reality and what should the Swedish healthcare system do to help?

Quantum technologies (i.e. tools whose functions rely on phenomena best described by quantum physics) are already widespread in healthcare, from MRI systems to laser-based surgical interventions. Many more such healthcare tools are making their way from research settings to clinical utilization in Sweden, including quantum sensors for the brain and heart as well as single photon-based spectroscopic methods for deep tissue imaging (c.f., quantumlifescience.se). Quantum computing furthermore enables an exponential speed up in solving many problems that were previously considered impossibly complex; life-science examples with powerful implications for healthcare include protein folding and metagenomics. What remains to be seen is when will the health-related promises of new quantum technologies become reality and what should the Swedish healthcare system do to help?