MEDICAL AND HEALTH CARE IN 2020'S

Health is wealth

If any one word defines where health care is heading, it’s this: connectivity. It’s a catch-all term that essentially means using the Web to increase medicine’s reach beyond the confines of the doctor’s office and the hospital. By using remote patient monitoring and telemedicine consultations, for instance, specialists can provide virtual care for distant patients. Meanwhile, all sorts of devices, including smartphones, can send health messages and track patients adherence to medication and exercise regimens.

Connected medicine is on a mission to empower patients and providers alike, by changing how care is delivered and giving individuals the tools to manage their own health care better. Rather than gather data about patients that just sits in their medical records, the aim is to mine that data to identify areas for improvement and create novel solutions. One example: identifying diabetes patients with poorly controlled blood sugar, and giving them apps to monitor their levels and record other important data like dietary intake and exercise.

There seem to be a dozen new health apps every day, but all that data isn’t necessarily connected to your health provider.

Through our research, we’ve learned that individuals respond well to seeing their personal health care data (such as blood-pressure data, blood-sugar data for diabetes or activity monitoring for obesity) collected via a sensor or remote-monitoring device, along with a regular check-in from a nurse or pharmacist, to keep them engaged in medical health care services. This has been quite successful, leading to measurable clinical improvements in a number of chronic illnesses.

The World's Top Most Innovative Health Care Agencies In Health Care

1.Partners HealthCare

For answering the call for urgently needed medical research. Partners HealthCare has invested more than $1 billion a year in drug discovery, genetics, and information technology—effectively making it one of the premier research organizations in the world. Partners is affiliated with the most esteemed hospitals in the country, such as Brigham and Women's and Massachusetts General, and is taking the lead in its work on translating genomic advances into the nascent field of "personalized" medicine.

2.Medivation

For finding the value of treatments that others ignored. One in six U.S. men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer this year, and the common treatment—androgen suppression therapy—can lead to depression, loss of libido, and worse. San Francisco–based Medivation discovered that highly debated androgen blockers can play a key role in battling the cancer, and the company's resulting drug, Xtandi, has been shown to extend the lives of patients in advanced stages of the disease.

3.MediSafe

For using wireless and cloud technology to improve drug adherence. MediSafe's app- and cloud-synced database allows family and friends to aid in the medical care of a loved one by being alerted as to whether or not an aging father or mother, for instance, has taken their medication.

4.IBM

For using Watson to harness big health care data. There's no denying that Big Blue's Watson supercomputer holds promise to improve health care administration and, more crucially, cancer treatment. Its medical rollout began with insurance and provider giant WellPoint (to conduct administrative reviews) and at Memorial Sloan Kettering, where it is learning the finer points of cancer treatment from the world's premier oncologists. By tapping into a nearly inexhaustible well of data to keep abreast of recent studies and trials, the computer will be able to give practitioners the keen edge of artificial intelligence to boost patient care.

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