Post on 14-Dec-2014
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Technologies that Are Shaking Up the Digital Health Industry
Robin Raskin, Digital Healthcare Executive Forum
The New Office Hours
Take Two Apps And Call Me In The Morning
OR
The Doctor Won’t See You Now
More Profitable to Treat Than Prevent • US spends some 18% of gross domestic product on healthcare but ranks 17th on a list of
17 developed countries by outcome. • 20% of GDP is medical ($28 trillion)• Highest Rate for Hospital Procedures in the World• Shorter Stays/High readmissions• Emergency room is doctor• Under insured population• Aging Demographic • Rules that make no sense in terms of billing• Providers/payees/physicians/patient disconnect
Regulatory: Affordable Health Care Act Economic: Price Comparison
Medicine as a CommodityTechnology: Mobile Phones, Sensors, Cloud
The Perfect Storm
• Take health into our own hands• Focus on well care, not sick care• Move from intermittent and reactive to
continuous and proactive
Changes in Attitude
Basic Building Blocks of Digital Health
Scanadu’s Scout Misfit Shine
Beam ToothbrushNeurosky EEG and ECG
Mo’ Better Sensors
Quantified SelfUsing tech devices to measure all bodily input and output. Is quantified self more than a narcissistic indulgence?
A National Habit• Three quarters of online U.S. consumers (75%) own a fitness
technology product. (UP 61% in 2012) • Pedometers remain the most popular 37%• Others include fitness video games (26%) and portable blood
pressure monitors (21%)• Price, battery life, size and falling off the wagon are biggest
obstacles.
The Guerilla Patient• Doctors have 5 minutes• Patients can’t absorb the information• Leave office uninformed• Poor adherence and compliance• Liptor vs. Lumena
• Patients going outside of traditional healthcare to educate
• Creating their own trusted networks• Choosing their services and fostering
competition• Monitoring done in hospital can now
be done at home
Obstacles to Progress• Virtual patient visit will need to be reimbursable• Patients are overwhelmed like when AT&T divested• Don’t ask dr. Google questions. The answer is cancer• Track-aholism• The Graveyard of Dead Devices
In Data We Trust Detecting Patterns of Large Numbers of Users• The Driverless Car• The Ingestible Pill• The Lively Sensor • Genetic Markers
Big Data Behind Each Individual
BioStamp from MC10Bands are just today’s incarnation
Genetic Sequencing for all
RoboticsParalyzed to walk (rehab) Dementia (5.2 million in US alone)
Incentives for Behavior Modification• Gaming – win points for behaving well• Clinical trials out in the open • Crowd-sourcing
The Doctor Will See You NowMedical kiosks will move to companies and places like Walgreens and CVS
New Modes of Interaction• Haptic and Gesture• MultiTouch • Voice• Mind control• Photo Capture• Augmented Reality
Natural Interface
The Closer to Our Body the More We Look; The Further From Our Body the Longer we Look
Rule of Screens
Multi Touch
Just Think About It
Photos and Scans
Augmented Reality
At the Center of It All: The Mobile Phone and Tablet• Cheap hardware• Prescribing apps • Gamification to keep people engaged• iPhone does real EKG • Scales that tweet• Bands that Monitor Your Body • Check up wherever you may be
Technologies that Are Shaking Up the Digital Health Industry
Robin Raskin, Digital Healthcare Executive Forum