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2023
Named 10 main trends in the digitalization of world health
Increased life expectancy of the population, the emergence of transformative technologies and continued global economic uncertainty will be key factors that will affect the health sector. This is stated in the study, the results of which were published in early October 2023. Forbes analysts highlight 10 main trends in the digitalization of world health in 2024.
Generative Artificial Intelligence (Genia)
The application of such tools will simplify the interpretation of the results of medical research and the formation of personalized recommendations. Chat bots and virtual assistants based on Genia will help improve the quality of patient care. One of the most promising uses of the technology is to accelerate drug development and research.
Personalized medicine
A personalized approach to healthcare leads to improved treatment outcomes. In 2024, according to the authors of the report, AI will be actively used to analyze the DNA of patients in order to diagnose and treat diseases, as well as to create drugs personalized for specific people up to the molecular level.
Virtual Assistants
Such systems will be able to help doctors by giving advice on treatment, diagnosis and choice of drugs. Patients, in turn, will be able to get the information they need to make better decisions about improving their health. Virtual assistants will increasingly interact with electronic medical record systems.
Digital twins
Digital twins of the human body and individual organs are being developed to model the effects of treatment and lifestyle changes. In 2024, a complex and comprehensive twin of the human brain is expected to appear.
Virtual hospitals based on the Internet of Things and telemedicine
All kinds of wearable gadgets and remote monitoring systems will take telemedicine services to a new level. In addition to remote consultations, employees of medical institutions will be able to implement a holistic approach to treating patients at home.
Preventive Health Care
Moving to a proactive treatment model will be a strategic priority for health care providers in 2024, according to the report's authors. This approach can provide long-term benefits to patients as well as reduce the costs associated with treating preventable diseases.
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The use of these technologies in health care will continue to gain momentum. In particular, virtual reality helps patients cope with long-term chronic pain, and also opens up new opportunities in terms of rehabilitation. Augmented reality serves to visualize digital information in operating rooms.
Care for the elderly
In this area, solutions will come to the fore that will allow older people to stay in their homes longer, rather than occupy places in hospitals, hospices and nursing homes. In addition, increased attention will be paid to the development of new treatments for diseases that arise precisely in old age and put stress on care systems such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's.
Additive manufacturing can be used to make certain medical devices and instruments, in particular some implants. In addition, research is underway in the field of 3D printing of living fabrics.
Convergence of mental health and physical care delivery
Health care providers recognize the link between patients' physical and mental well-being and point to the need for a holistic approach to treatment. Doctors will increasingly assess how mental health problems can affect the treatment of physical ailments.[1]
Named negative factors of digitalization of healthcare
Electronic health systems and telemedicine technologies increase the burden on employees of hospitals and other specialized institutions. This is stated in a detailed report released by The Lancet Digital Health magazine in early August 2023.
The study involved specialists from Brazil, Denmark, Germany, India and the United States. These indicators are based on an analysis of 132 systematic reviews, one way or another related to the digitalization of the health sector.
Overall, digital medical technology revolutionized healthcare by providing an integrated, efficient and decentralized environment for care delivery, it said. Such solutions improve patient outcomes and increase access to health services. New digital technologies are introduced annually, including sensors and wearable devices for remote collection of indicators, telemedicine platforms, systems based on artificial intelligence, etc.
The study showed that the use of telemedicine and remote monitoring tools improves decision-making processes (this is evidenced by 30.3% of the reviews analyzed) and assistance (27%). In addition, the level of satisfaction of medical workers is increasing (29.2%). Digital solutions enable faster identification of new clinical problems (11.2%). Telemedicine can contribute to career growth, increased knowledge and improved performance and performance indicators (23.6%). On the other hand, these tools can increase the burden on healthcare professionals and lead to burnout (2.2%).
The use of electronic medical records allows improving access to high-quality information (12.7%) and increasing the effectiveness of interprofessional interaction (9.9%). At the same time, electronic document management entails an increase in the burden on employees (9.9%). Systems for supporting medical decision-making based on AI improve the provision of medical care (15.5%), and social networks help in work (6.2%).[2]
2019
China has become a leader in the use of digital technologies in medicine
In mid-June 2019, Philips presented a report according to which China and other emerging markets are leading in the use of digital technologies in medicine.
The Philips study involved 15,000 patients and more than 3,000 healthcare professionals from 15 countries. It turned out that in developing countries, digital technologies are increasingly becoming one of the components of daily medical care for both health workers and patients.
Thus, medical professionals China are more likely to recommend that patients use technology to track blood pressure and other health indicators on their own than their peers in the West - if in China this figure is 60%, then the average for all 15 countries surveyed is only 44%. Russia In, Saudi Arabia, India and China, the proportion of healthcare professionals using digital technology or health care mobile healthcare applications ranges from 81% to 94%. In,, and Germany Great Britain this Australia USA range ranges from 64% to 76%.
In China and the UAE, 58% and 46% of patients, respectively, share data from connected devices with health care professionals. In the UK, Sweden and Germany, these figures were 26%, 17% and 12%, respectively. 80% of Chinese citizens, 74% of Saudi Arabians and 70% of Indian citizens (based on the number using digital technologies) seek medical care on their own. The 15-country average is 47%.
These results converge with the growth forecasts of the wearables market. In India and Saudi Arabia, sales are expected to grow by 5.8% and 5.6%, respectively, while the average for all 15 countries this growth will be only 4.5%.[3]
Frost & Sullivan: Healthcare Big Data Analytics Market Size to Exceed $68 Billion by 2020
According to the company's experts, in Frost & Sullivan 2019, the growth of the technology segment to medicine in will have a significant impact on related markets such as, (analytics big data AI artificial intelligence), mobile medicine, smart accessories, etc. With the increase in the volume data received in digital form, the relevance of the task of their processing and analysis will also increase, experts are convinced. So, according to the director of the Russian representative office of Frost & Sullivan, by Alexey Volostnov 2020 the market volume analysts big data in the field health care will exceed $68 billion. More. here
Top 3 IT Trends in Healthcare
In mid-January 2019, medical data storage and processing cloud technology company Ambra Health named three major IT trends that will prevail in healthcare in 2019. Technological changes in health care are changing both how service consumers interact with providers and how these services are managed. Trends in the development of medicine taking into account new information technologies are as follows:
Health care decisions began to be made by specialists born in the 1980s
The so-called millennials, who were born in the 80s of the XX century, are no longer college students, they have crossed the thirty-year threshold and now make decisions on their own in all areas of their activities. Millennials have high hopes for the availability of medical data, convenient portals for patients, the possibility of remote consultation with a doctor and transparency of pricing. Prospective healthcare organizations should be online, support online reviews, improve websites, and provide self-care for patients.
Millennials prefer to control the services they provide, including requiring transparency in pricing, and new legislative requirements are ready to ensure it. The initiators of the health insurance program USA Medicare in are working to create a public website dedicated to pricing transparency to tilt consumer choices toward companies providing accurate information about actual costs.
Improving interoperability between health systems
Interoperability in large healthcare systems has slowly but steadily increased over the years. Individual specialists and outpatient imaging centers associated with a large hospital system often combine data into a single portal, which is of huge importance to patients. For example, at Johns Hopkins University, IT specialists have merged all new public hospitals of their network into one system. However, within a single health system, few remain throughout life, and this is especially true of young professionals.
Medical institutions are faced with the task of tracking data along city and state lines and reducing the number of duplicate laboratory data and images. Companies have already made several attempts to improve compatibility. In the fall of 2018, the CommonWell Health Alliance announced the availability of the CareQuality system, which will allow healthcare institutions to connect to a shared network and share patient data to improve coordination.
Research centers use machine learning to generate new ideas
As the amount of medical data continues to grow, analyzing it becomes more difficult. It is here that the experience of the already developed technology industry comes to the rescue. Researchers from leading institutions are looking for new ways to turn data into ideas using the results of imaging diagnostic techniques for scientific research. The tech industry's expertise in managing data and applying these systems to healthcare will underpin this work. For example, Google Cloud now works with leading academic institutions. The potential for using new data for research, AI initiatives and machine learning in database pooling is virtually unlimited. Leading research institutions are updating recommendations, including developing clear language for patient consent forms for data processing and the creation of cloud technologies and medical research databases.[4]
2018: Forecast for Digital in Healthcare
On January 14, 2018, as part of the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference, analyst Steve Kraus, one of the most active investors in the field of new healthcare technologies, gave a forecast for 2018.
Don't wait for a public offering
I think the exchange market in 2018 will remain closed to companies engaged in new technologies in healthcare. However, in 2019, more favorable conditions should appear for the initial public offering of shares, as well as for funded startups such as Health Catalyst, Flatiron Health, Welltok, Grand Rounds Health, whose income will exceed $100 million.
In the healthcare sector, companies will continue to join and acquire companies, but now large owners will focus on healthcare enterprises, many of which are closely connected with technology, and not with companies specializing exclusively in IT in medicine.
More startups
I am confident that vertically integrated healthcare companies will thrive in the new year as well. By this name, I mean companies that provide all the necessary services for certain conditions, for example, in the treatment of diabetes mellitus or in palliative care.
Patients themselves take part in the development of this service sector, which allows companies to provide the best care for the most difficult of them. In addition, such companies deal with the problem as a whole, which also provides more significant results.
Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
 | You hardly missed the hype that rose in 2017 around artificial intelligence and machine learning, especially in connection with radiology and laboratory research methods. A host of companies are developing algorithms to improve care, but these ideas take time to develop commercially. In my opinion, in 2018, these technologies will finally find their application in optimizing the workflow, which will allow doctors to devote more time to the patient, and not documents, "said Steve Kraus. |  |
Biology is not only a technical problem
In 2017, Silicon Valley began investing in computational biology. At the same time, the funds were mainly given to companies that are looking for new application points for drugs, that is, the simplest research in this industry. But I'm sure in 2018 these companies and investors are realizing that biology is so simply not "programmed." The problem with biotechnology is not that they lack potential application points or candidates for new drugs. We actually need clinical research programs. If these startups are going to enter a serious market to compete with traditional technologies, they need to start developing real biotechnology. And they require much more investment than investors probably assumed initially.
A great ship asks for deep waters
In 2018, Apple, Alphabet and Amazon will continue to develop their healthcare technology. If these companies do find a worthwhile point to apply their forces, the public offering market could return much faster than we expected.
Modesty adorns
In recent months, more companies that have swung to unthinkable heights are returning to the market with a tail. Only now they are ready to accept proposals for adjusting investments. They are still potentially successful, but investors should understand that not everyone is destined to develop to the scale of the largest companies, the analyst said in January 2018.[5]
2017
Medical Imaging Trends Forecast
In December 2017, Ambra Health CEO Morris Panner presented a forecast for technology trends that he believes will change medical imaging in 2018. Read more here.
AI and cloud services cited as key trends in healthcare
In December 2017 consulting , the firm Frost & Sullivan presented key trends in the area. health care According to experts, artificial intelligence (AI) cloud services will become the main platforms for storing and processing information.
According to the results of the vote, in which respondents were asked to choose key technologies that, in their opinion, would have the most significant impact on the healthcare industry in 2018, the majority of votes - 40% - went to AI.
The second forecast is for cloud services, which will take over as the primary healthcare storage platform in 2018 because they provide sufficient flexibility and responsiveness for all stakeholders. Frost & Sullivan predicts that the global market for cloud services in the field of medical services will be more than $5 billion by 2018, and between 2017 and 2022 it will increase by 24% annually.
The third key forecast for 2018 is that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) program aimed at digitally monitoring patients' medical data will attract investors such as Google, Apple, Samsung and Fitbit to the healthcare industry.
Instead of processing the entire data array on their own, companies are looking to redistribute tasks, turning software into a sought-after service. For example, Microsoft is developing not only the basic infrastructure of cloud systems, but also many subservices. In 2017, the American corporation released a new set of services to significantly speed up the processing and management of data, including medical ones.[6]
See also
Notes
- ↑ The 10 Biggest Trends Revolutionizing Healthcare In 2024
- ↑ The global effect of digital health technologies on health workers’ competencies and health workplace: an umbrella review of systematic reviews and lexical-based and sentence-based meta-analysis
- ↑ China leads world in digital health adoption, Philips survey finds
- ↑ Three healthcare IT trends to watch in 2019
- ↑ 6 digital health predictions for 2018
- ↑ AI, service-based business models and the cloud will be key health care trends in 2018
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