{"id":66,"date":"0020-10-12T03:23:00","date_gmt":"0020-10-12T03:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vetsaconsulting.com\/blog\/?p=66"},"modified":"2021-01-19T13:03:46","modified_gmt":"2021-01-19T13:03:46","slug":"industry-trends-healthcare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vetsaconsulting.com\/blog\/?p=66","title":{"rendered":"Industry Trends &#8211; Healthcare"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3>Healthcare &#8211; Trends<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>mHealth -> medical and public health system supported by mobile devices<\/li><li>Diversifying beyond the core hospital -> investing in outpatient services, integrating physician practices<\/li><li>Transformation volume to value (payment systems based on fee-for-service; limited focus on outcomes \u00e0 lower cost, higher quality, information sharing, investment into supporting clinical integration, etc)<br>Connecting to Care program in Saskatchewan, Canada -> preventing hospitalisations and emergency room visits by including support for medical, mental health, addition treatments, assistance with social needs<\/li><li>Cognitive computing dealing with rapidly changing data; can be used to predict, detect patterns in data (e.g. drugs effect on population), classify or combine data to create 360 view of a patient<\/li><li>Data stored in a cloud and accessed on an as-needed basis (system based on a blockchain) -> patients being able to access their medical records 24\/7<\/li><li>Synthetic biology, ability to engineer DNA structure \u00a0<\/li><li>3d printing and nanotechnology -> being able to print a tissue, innovators could develop a customised white blood cells to fight cancer cells<\/li><li>Biosensors and trackers -> enable earlier intervention<\/li><li>Social media as a rich source of data about population health trends<\/li><li>Telehealth -> patient\u2019s care options not limited by geolocation; very useful in mental health<\/li><li>Internet therapies<\/li><li>Mobile devices equipped with tools to measure blood pressure, oxygen level, measure temperature; if entered regularly into mobile patient portals they can help prevent health risks<\/li><li>Patient empowerment; bigger access to specialists<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3>Challenges<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Shortage of human resources vs rising demand for services<\/li><li>Data management and security<\/li><li>High black-market value of medical data<\/li><li>Consumers demonstrate a lack of trust in traditional health system<\/li><li>Unpredictable results of some revolutionary operations, e.g. potential transfer of genes to wild organisms which reproduce<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Healthcare &#8211; Trends mHealth -> medical and public health system supported by mobile devices Diversifying beyond the core hospital -> investing in outpatient services, integrating physician practices Transformation volume to value (payment systems based on fee-for-service; limited focus on outcomes \u00e0 lower cost, higher quality, information sharing, investment into supporting clinical integration, etc)Connecting to Care&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vetsaconsulting.com\/blog\/?p=66\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Industry Trends &#8211; Healthcare<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[33],"tags":[30,31],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vetsaconsulting.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vetsaconsulting.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vetsaconsulting.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vetsaconsulting.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vetsaconsulting.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vetsaconsulting.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67,"href":"https:\/\/www.vetsaconsulting.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions\/67"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vetsaconsulting.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vetsaconsulting.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vetsaconsulting.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}