Forecasting as an Element of Digitalization of Healthcare, Including in Diseases of the Maxillofacial Region (Literature Review)

Abstract

Subject. A review of the literature devoted to an urgent topic in practical healthcare – the creation of prognostic criteria for the digitalization of medical activity, including diseases of the maxillofacial region.
 Methodology. The data of special literature were studied using scientific search library databases: Pub Med, Elibrary, Cochrane, Rospatent platform. Literature analysis was carried out on 31 sources.
 Results. Forecasting is an important element in digital technologies. Despite the fact that forecasting is often called the preliminary part of the work, it represents a scientific prediction of the most likely changes in the state of the healthcare industry, the needs of society for medical services, the production capabilities of medicine, the directions of technical progress of the industry. The authors present a comparative analysis of data on the developed methods of creating prognostic models, in particular, for diseases of the maxillofacial region, and the possibility of their digitalization within the framework of practical health care.
 Conclusions. Forecasting the activity of practical healthcare is an important element of optimizing information data, diagnostic criteria for treatment, and the choice of treatment tactics depending on the expected prognostic factors, which may affect the favorable outcome of diseases, and, accordingly, will improve the quality of treatment of patients. However, it must be borne in mind that forecasting in medical activity must necessarily be based on a scientific approach, taking into account the clinical and statistical analysis of all factors affecting the prognosis, since innovations in practical healthcare improve matters only if they appear on the soil cultivated by the efforts of science.