Smarter Medical Decision Support: The Case for Connected Health

摘要

While healthcare systems around the world are clearly facing enormous challenges from medical inflation, tight budgets, and the increasing burdens of chronic diseases and an aging population, technology-based solutions are coming down the track under the dynamic banner of connected health. The new challenge will be to properly select the applications that have greater potential and to deploy them safely across regions, nations, and continents. In certain areas, it is already apparent that this new challenge is changing shape and has shifted toward the need to "connect the system back to itself." The proliferation of independent siloed systems will not amount to overall improvements in healthcare service but will only widen the gap between centers of excellence and the dark ages of healthcare provision.