Digital healthcare: the future

Abstract

Digital healthcare offers a huge range of possibilities and may improve the quality of patient care. The traditional paradigm of clinical history, examination, differential diagnosis and treatment may be improved by tools such as machine learning, mobile applications and sensors, wearables, and telehealth. The recent pandemic has accelerated the move towards this future, however, important concerns remain. These include ensuring that new technologies are assessed effectively and are introduced thoughtfully, data are unified into care records, and, ultimately, digital tools are underpinned with appropriate clinical support. Patients must benefit without worsening workload for the clinician. Old barriers may be overcome but new challenges will be faced, in particular, ensuring the promise of better care for those who lack access to smart phones and the internet will be crucial. Clinicians must continue to advocate for patients and their colleagues as we embrace the future of digital healthcare.

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“…With major financial investment raised to develop this technology, businesses (like Babylon) have heavily invested in the use of chatbots to diagnose patients in primary care. 7 Speech recognition technology has been around for a while, but with advances in processing power and machine learning, it may now be used in clinical settings during consultations for purposes more than merely transcribing letters. When you examine the patient's eardrums and say out loud, "Red, inflamed eardrum," the system suggests the diagnosis of otitis media and then provides a list of antibiotics from the formulary based on the patient's age and allergy status.…”

“…Microsoft just acquired Nuance, one of the industry heavyweights, for slightly around $20 billion. 7 Fig…”

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