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3 Digital Healthcare Trends That We Can Expect to See More of in 2017
Clinical trials will increasingly utilize medical devices and digital monitoring of patients to gather health data in real time, allowing researchers to reach conclusions more quickly compared to periodic patient visits. Wearable devices that monitor health metrics like vital signs will become more common, sending steady streams of data to healthcare providers for remote patient monitoring. Consumers are also adopting more digital health tools to self-monitor conditions, with over half of consumers now using at least three digital health technologies, up significantly from the previous year.
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- 1. 3 Digital Healthcare TrendsThat We Can Expect To See More Of In 2017 J E R E M Y B A R B E R A
- 2. The Contents Clinical Trials01 DigitalMonitoring02 Consumer Use of Digital Health 03
- 3. Clinical Trials Medical devicescan be used to monitor the patients who are participants in clinical trials for new drugs and other therapies. Pharmaceutical companies rarely have the ability to monitor trial participants on a 24-hour basis. If electronic data can be sent via devices around the clock, researchers will be able to come to conclusions much sooner. According to a 2016 survey by digital device enterprise Validic, devices are being used more and more for clinical trial data collection. When data is generated by patients and streamed directly to clinical trial managers in real time, the information is much more accurate than it would be if patients visited periodically and relied on memories.
- 4. Digital Monitoring Wearables areable to monitor aspects of a patient’s health like blood pressure, blood sugar levels, weight, mediation and levels of activity. When a patient uses any kind of wearable, whether it is a small device or a patch, a steady stream of data can be sent to healthcare providers and used to evaluate a patient. Recent research shows that in 2015, the medical device industry market totalled approximately $5.1 billion, and it will probably triple by 2020 and more healthcare providers will begin to take the concept on board.
- 5. Consumer Use of DigitalHealth Consumers are gaining awareness of the need to monitor their own health to prevent future health conditions. Digital technology is being used in a much more abundant way than it was before. In 2016, a venture that invests in health-related startups called Rock Health released its annual survey about summer trends in healthcare. The survey found that 56 percent of respondents were utilizing at least three types of digital health, a huge increase from 19 percent in 2015.
- 6. Conclusion Only 20 percentof respondents said they did not use any digital health technology. Of the respondents, 10 percent of them were considered avid users of digital health technologies such as telemedicine, wearables, electronic access to medical records and more. Unsurprisingly, millennials dominate the digital health market. In a constantly changing world, technology is truly altering the healthcare market for the better. Advances in digital healthcare changing the world, and we can expect this to continue in 2017.