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shows potential relation
between structure of genes, and
physical & emotional health of an
individual. Patients have started
hile the world is talking
worrying about why and how they
about technology
have been victims of a particular health
enhancements and AI and
issue. Especially with respect to
mission to Mars, healthcare sector is
lifestyle diseases, they demand cause
evolving rapidly to redefine itself. Very and effect to be mapped in a scientific
soon the changes will dwarf the other
manner at least going back to their
sectors in terms of impact and
genome sequence.
importance to human history. This
article talks about digital revolution
Major trend setting forces here are Big
that will transform the healthcare
Data and AI. With end-to-end EMR
landscape globally.
and genomic data of millions of
patients available like never before,
Prescriptive and reactive care to
technology can start clustering and
Predictive and proactive care
categorizing populations based on
Traditionally, medicine in healthcare
genomic sequences, habits like
has been mostly treatment based for an smoking, family history, and much
ailment. External factors like bacteria more. This then can be linked to early
or virus impact health of an individual warning signs and symptoms, reactions
and medicine is expected to help
to specific treatment protocols, health
human body fight these external
outcomes and most importantly, risk of
enemies. Medicine of today starts
getting into a specific health condition
when a patient, who is unwell,
like Cancer or Diabetes.
approaches a clinical expert to help
fight against his health problems.
Predictive sciences take it one step
forward with deep learning algorithms
This is very counterintuitive in cases of that not only predict “what” but also
cancer, diabetes, hypertension etc.,
predict “when”. Today, these
which do not have any known external innovative technologies are being
influencers. Research on genomics
deployed on a pilot basis and very soon
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December 2017
we will see these getting into the
mainstream.
As per a research study, age adjusted
admission rates for all-cause
hospitalisation were 631.3 and 454.8
per 1,000 participant years and the
mean length of stay was 8.2 and 7.1
days respectively for participants with
and without diabetes. When we are
able to have effective predictive and
preventive methods, can we focus on
these high risk patients?
The paradigm changes here from
treating a patient (when he presents
himself with a complaint) to helping a
global citizen live a healthy life by not
being a patient. In tomorrow’s world,
no global citizen is going to experience
the typical symptoms. Even before
those symptoms come to the surface,
the risk will be mitigated. This is just
like destroying a plot of terrorist
attack!
Episodic Cost management to
Reduce number of incidents to
manage costs
The biggest challenge for any public or
private healthcare organisation is
reducing costs of healthcare and
making it more and more affordable.
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