Quantum technologies in healthcare: analysis of cases and perspectives

The use of quantum technologies opens up new opportunities for the development of medicines, improving the quality of diagnostics, protection of medical information and personal data, increasing the efficiency of medical decision-making. The aim of the research was to study the prospects of development and application of quantum technologies in the field of healthcare. In order to achieve the goal, the analysis of separate clusters of quantum technologies with maximum prospects of commercial application in healthcare was performed; the patent landscape of the considered technological area was built; a review of market products for healthcare created on the basis of quantum technologies was prepared. It is shown that quantum sensors, quantum computing and quantum-resistant cybersecurity solutions have received maximum development in healthcare. The number of created technical solutions in the technological field under consideration, which received patent protection, is more than 6.5 thousand, of which 3.5 thousand are supported. As key beneficiaries of the use of quantum technologies in healthcare it is proposed to consider, first of all, pharmaceutical companies and biotechnology startups, which can reduce the time of modeling and testing of drugs, improve the accuracy of predicting side effects of drugs and drug-drug interactions through the use of quantum computing, accelerate the analysis of big data and optimize clinical trial protocols.