As the world’s healthcare systems came to a standstill due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it provided a watershed moment that compelled us to reconsider current healthcare delivery paradigms and embrace the digital transformation of the industry. To ensure that health benefits can reach the last mile, much more work must be done. Realizing the promise of tech-driven solutions can lead to better results along critical care pathways, from the use of remote patient monitoring and virtual care services to the application of artificial intelligence (AI) in MedTech devices for diagnosis and therapy. Enabling tailored diagnosis and treatment and moving us closer to precision health, can assist physicians in making wiser and more knowledgeable decisions.
The future of the holistic digital environment
It’s crucial to create a stable environment that supports the adoption and delivery of digital health solutions. Its success is a result of numerous reasons. A well-crafted policy framework that encourages local research and innovation in this area must serve as the direction for the collective process of digital health. For healthcare professionals to easily employ digital tools, a supportive policy environment is essential, as well as proper training, skill development, and information sharing.
Clear data sets and uniform governance frameworks are needed, and platform solutions that connect, collect, and analyze data and turn it into usable insights must be widely adopted. In addition, 5G will change the diagnosis, therapy, and prognosis, upending the entire patient care continuum.
Given the magnitude of India’s healthcare issues, industry, academia, and the public and private sectors must work together to scale digital health.
Utilizing data-driven healthcare
The amount of technology-based healthcare services available today is constantly growing.
Only 18.5% of patients with lung cancer survive for five years or more after being diagnosed. Data-driven technology will assist counter these dangers. The range of oncology therapy is growing thanks to readily available clinical, imaging, and genomic data that can be efficiently analyzed. This can enable quicker identification of at-risk individuals and an assessment of the possibility of cancer, leading to better patient outcomes.
Cardiovascular illness will also benefit from the use of precision analytics (CVD). A predictive model to determine patient risk as CVDs are influenced by a person’s lifestyle, genetics, and family history. In asymptomatic people, we are already using AI to forecast heart failure and other catastrophic cardiac events. AI should be able to help us identify the many different elements that contribute to CVDs by revealing intricate correlations between a person’s lifestyle, genetics, and other factors.
Digital Advantage
It is essential to embrace and execute a healthcare framework with digital technology at its center to fulfill the long-term aims of enhancing India’s healthcare system. Building on critical areas including enabling infrastructure, upskilled talent, strong data aggregation platforms, use of analysis tools, including AI, and cooperation would be necessary to fully realize the potential of the healthcare system.
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