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Digital medieval healthcare. Global technological transformation after COVID-19

"A dead man is just an incurable patient so far." Jean Rostan
Your cruelty! Imagine that you are the smartest and most sophisticated person on earth, you are an honorary member of various communities and the fate of the governments of many countries depends on your decisions, you decide which economy will develop and which will die, the elite and the world nobility consider it an honor to know you personally, with one movement of your hand you can oust any president, and with one remark “drop” the shares of major publicly listed world companies from the Fortune 500 list, you are always an expected guest in the Club of Rome and Bilderberg, they always want you and listen with aspiration.

How is this possible? Perhaps this is also called capitalism and globalization - power, in a word.

More and more people feel more acutely: in recent decades, something has happened to the world; something has irrevocably changed; the familiar world has almost disappeared; the science of society studies not so much today's world as by inertia — yesterday’s world; humanitarian and social studies provide the student with a larger picture of the world that has already left. The world is changing faster than science in its current state is able to catch it.

Organizations such as the World Health Organization (WHO) have been created in the existing globalized world to ensure collaboration between different governments on global health issues. And now, the outbreak of COVID-19 is threatening an overload of the healthcare system and the global economy.

In the face of pandemics such as this, when cases of coronavirus have been reported in more than 150 countries , these organizations must have the correct and accurate information to judge the best course of action. And now more than ever, the dependence on digital communications is increasing. The Internet almost instantly became a channel for effective human interaction and the main way we work, communicate and support each other.

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As Yuval Harari stated in his new TIME magazine article :
“If short-term quarantine is really needed to stop the spread of the threat, then long-term isolation will only lead to economic collapse - without providing any protection against infectious diseases. On the contrary: the real antidote to the epidemic is not segregation, but cooperation . ”
This applies not only to social cooperation, but also to cooperation technologies that would allow countries, organizations and individuals to exchange large amounts of data so that they can work together effectively in times of crisis. However, in time-constrained situations when information, technologies and infrastructures are overflowing, the existing ones do not meet the requirements of what is required of them, with restrictions in areas such as full compatibility, reliability and data security. As a result, we do not understand what is happening at the local level, and therefore, we cannot give precise recommendations at the global level.

Innovation and the role of science in healthcare


As we have already presented above, you have achieved all that could be achieved in a material sense. This means that any innovation can potentially become a threat leading to the loss of your status, right?

How will you behave, your cruelty? How to respond to innovation in this case?
The answer is well described by Thomas Kuhn in The Structure of Scientific Revolutions .

However, innovation can also be a source of growth, especially when the “old master” has left and left the “doors open” for the new.

A recent analysis by Frost & Sullivan, Global Digital Health Outlook, 2020, provides a comprehensive picture of the most significant areas of change that will drive growth and innovation worldwide in digital health.

It identifies key data points in digital health and the impact of future phases projected for this year. It covers the fields of artificial intelligence (AI), blockchain, cybersecurity, digital therapy, big data, managing the health and well-being of employees using IT, remote patient monitoring, telemedicine, femtech, and data analytics.

If we talk about blockchain, for example, then its potential lies in ensuring the exchange of reliable scientific information.

Science should fully return to the true concepts of scientific ethics and scientific methodology and should serve the interests of society, be free from politics and corporate manipulation.

There is also a need for a robust ecosystem in which data can be managed and shared, as this, in turn, will facilitate collaboration and collaboration.

And this interaction was made possible thanks to the digitization of medical records, which opens up opportunities that go far beyond the simple exchange of information. What if there was a managed private licensed network into which key stakeholders, such as research laboratories and universities, could upload data? A common digital infrastructure and application tier can be a huge advantage as it allows hospitals, government and private companies such as insurance companies to collaborate effectively and share solutions and knowledge. This transfer of instant, relevant and reliable data between healthcare providers worldwide can, for example, benefit research and optimize clinical trials.

Digital healthcare


(eHealth, wireless health, mobile health, EHR, telehealth)

Digital health can be tried to define how the use of data for medical care, using computing and telecommunication technologies to support business processes, clinical processes and manage patient data. This definition outlines the growth opportunities that will impact established organizations in order to transform their business models and encourage new entrants to change their way of providing care.

All healthcare stakeholders, patients, providers and pharmacists will benefit, as will technology companies that are stepping up their efforts to take advantage of new opportunities in the global healthcare market.

Since we are still “spinning the wheel” of the model of capitalism, let's talk about money.

A steady shift in the healthcare industry to improving patient outcomes, cost containment and cost-based care is expected to lead to a global digital healthcare market exceeding US $ 504.4 billion by 2025 (under current pandemic conditions, this mark may be achieved much earlier) * according to the new Global Market Insights research report .

At the same time, the volume of world health expenditures is growing annually and already exceeds the mark of 10 trillion US dollars.

This exponential growth chart will be based on everyday technologies such as smartphone sensors, data analytics and cloud storage that have contributed to digital health research. Traditional paper models are being replaced by electronic data collection (EDC) solutions that help reduce rising healthcare costs by empowering patients and citizens, as well as healthcare providers, to collect and analyze real-time data. The digital health market is also gaining significant momentum from governments seeking to reduce the government’s health costs, which is understandable.

Many experts are of the opinion that changing the status quo will have a significant impact on the provision of medical care in the near future, when digital healthcare will allow patients to access their health and get help from experts, without resorting to practical special skills.

Benefits for the healthcare industry from “numbers”


It is irrefutably proven that early diagnosis of diseases significantly reduces the cost of medical care, which is one of the main factors that ensure the rapid growth of the digital healthcare market.

The ability to continuously monitor, monitor and analyze health status in real time provides improvements and opportunities to understand the health status, and early prediction of the disease becomes possible. Such changes at the individual level not only eliminate systemic costs by reducing the need for treatment, but also lead to an extension of a person’s life.

For example, it is estimated that in the UK the National Health Service (NHS) spends nearly £ 2 billion annuallyto unnecessary or expensive treatment, which is often a consequence of the late detection of diseases. Digital health advances can help reduce the cost of such unnecessary treatments, as well as waste associated with medical services.

In addition, there are many areas in which blockchain, AI, and other technologies can benefit the industry, including clinical data management, compatibility, supply chain and billing, disease prevention, quick and high-quality medical research, lower pharmaceutical costs and control their qualities, the ability to predict the diagnosis, personalized medicine, treatment of people at a distance, etc.

Reliability and data security


What matters is not what a person possesses or does not possess; what matters is that he is afraid to lose. And in this context, we are talking not only about the very health of a person, but about his medical data.
The healthcare industry must process and store an enormous amount of data, and this poses a serious problem with risks ranging from improper management of medical records to security breaches.

As the digital healthcare market grows, the need for cybersecurity will also increase. Regulators in the United States and other countries will impose hefty fines and penalties on those health care providers who do not properly protect patient data due to persistent threats to the patient’s privacy and security data.

Gaining access to a patient record can be very time consuming, potentially delaying the treatment and care of that patient. It can also lead to incorrect management of these records and, in the worst case, to erroneous diagnostics.

Does the world community and interested groups need to strive for decentralization of health care and transition to distributed databases?

One thing is certain, for medical workers and hospitals, having a reliable database of medical records will reduce the risk of an erroneous diagnosis, which will ultimately lead to an optimization of the treatment process.

Future opportunities


The growth of the elderly population in countries such as the USA, China, Japan, India, the UAE and the rest of the world causes huge demand for digital healthcare applications such as telemedicine, chat bots, mobile healthcare and artificial intelligence. According to UN forecasts, by 2050, 22% of the world's population will be retired, and in developed countries for every working citizen there will be a senior citizen.

This, combined with the expected shortage of doctors and medical personnel, will force all industry participants to adopt the “number” as the basis for the next generation of access to patients, support for clinical decision-making, workflow management and public health management.

To gain a competitive advantage, organizations will seek to harness growth opportunities by:

  • Ensuring the presence of an experienced IT organization that can manage the combination of internal and cloud infrastructure, platforms and services;
  • Developing an ecosystem of companies that contribute to an excellent value proposition for all stakeholders;
  • Allocation of significant resources for cybersecurity;
  • Offering data cleaning and processing for the optimal use of big data analytics, stimulated by the expected increase in patient-generated health data from remote patient monitoring;
  • Providing a combination of devices, platforms, data management solutions and services, including data from a combination of mass market wearable devices and medical supplies.

In my opinion, the large-scale technological transformation of healthcare should go in at least five main areas:

  1. Securing data and systems
  2. Creation of new platforms and ecosystems
  3. Development of organizations based on data and algorithms
  4. Reliability and Efficiency
  5. Strengthening Innovation Infrastructure

Building powerful, reliable and flexible technology platforms that can process large amounts of data in a short time, and transferring all medical services to them is the beginning of building a global joint healthcare ecosystem.

I realize that humanity is in the path of these transformations and the creation of such a global health ecosystem with the help of modern technology will take time but it will solve many health problems and threats in the future.

Not laughter prolongs life, but robots.

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