Healthcare quo vadis
Tags: Digital Transformation, Future, Healtcare

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All over the world the Healthcare Industry is hit by the impact of the COVID-19 virus but even without COVID-19 pandemic disturbance the health industry would experience the Digital Transformation but with less necessity and speed.

The healthcare industry has challenges needs and will change overtime in different areas. This change will be induced by the application of existing and new digital technologies.

From various sources it becomes clear that healthcare industry will change and extend current capabilities in many areas and develop new capabilities and we will see an innovation surge in:

overall patient experience due to changes in the care delivery like virtual services, patient care and wellbeing;

data management, data engineering and forecasting and real time actual information;

health quality and agility and increase in efficiency and effectiveness;

Nevertheless, all those changes trust and transparency of the whole industry must be safeguarded.

Innovation and improvement need to find solutions for:

Imbalances in supply and demand for skills, technical expertise and resources;

poorly implemented IT both infrastructure applications en data;

Ineffective and/or insufficient capacity ;

Limited throughput and lack of velocity in processes;

High total costs of care;

Non interoperable data and technology silos;

The speed, efficiency of accuracy of R&D, diagnostics and treatments.

So, what changes could we expect to emerge further the coming years?

Patients will be digital coached and receive tailored and personalized medications.

Patients will have much better prevention monitoring and management of chronic diseases.

Fast (self) early diagnostics and early detection of chronic diseases

high level of predictive analysis and decision making

Tele-medicine, remote patient monitoring

AI agents to help patients or their families in resolving questions and issues

Shift in care from the hospital to the primary care and to the home show

So, what are the digital technology we see now developing?

Artificial intelligence (AI) with machine learning (ML)

The algorithms are now getting more in place and improve both operational proces (doctors and staff) but also on the strategic executive level. Realtime AI driven applications enter the medical domains, chatbots but also medical imaging and Robots during surgery and interventions.

Doctors and staff will to do their work better and faster and improving prevention diagnosis and treatments.

AI and ML will be used in in the study of disorders and AI will generate models for testing en verification of treatments. The further development of apps, wearables (sensors) and self-monitoring solutions based on IOT and virtual reality will make it much easier to collect data

In the diagnostics area we will see be automated molecular diagnostics Health Care systems will bring medical records to the home, accompanied by ai BAES Intelligent assistants