Quantum technologies in clinical medicine: a systematic cross-domain synthesis and translational readiness taxonomy
Abstract
Quantum technologies — encompassing quantum sensing, quantum computing and machine learning (QML), quantum nanomaterials, and quantum cryptography — represent an emerging class of physical and computational tools with the potential to address fundamental limitations in clinical medicine across diagnostics, therapeutics, drug discovery, and health-information security. Despite a rapidly growing body of peer-reviewed evidence, estimated at a compound annual growth rate of approximately 14.8% over 2016–2025, the extant literature organises findings by technology type rather than clinical specialty, limiting accessibility for clinically-oriented readers and precluding systematic cross-domain technology maturity comparison. This review addresses that structural gap through a specialty-first synthesis of the quantum-medicine literature and the introduction of an original five-dimension Translational Readiness Taxonomy (TRT: Hardware Maturity, Validation Setting, Benchmarking Rigour, Reproducibility, Regulatory Pathway) as a replicable cross-domain maturity assessment instrument. A total of 168 peer-reviewed studies were identified through a reproducible seven-step PRISMA-aligned screening pipeline from a deduplicated corpus of 14,303 records (Scopus n = 7,081; Web of Science n = 4,644; PubMed n = 2,578), organised across five clinical domains: cardiology , neurology , oncology, genomics and drug discovery , and health data security ; 2022; Indumathi et al. 2024; Roosan et al.…
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