The digital transformation that the entire society is experiencing is unprecedented in the healthcare sector.
What is known as MedTech (which can be defined as medical technology) can help in various ways, either by predicting disease or optimizing treatment. These advances, and the potential improvements that can be made to improve services, should improve people’s lives.
Telemedicine, which had its origins in the 1930s, is defined by the WHO as “the provision of medical care at a distance”, a quality that “can improve the management of health care and increase the coverage of services”.
The organization has a telemedicine guide that “provides a comprehensive overview of the planning, implementation and maintenance of information systems for accounting plans and supports countries that are at different stages of their telemedicine journey.”
One example of how technology can improve the health sector is the fight against breast cancer, a disease that has a special day to raise awareness of the need for early detection, especially on October 19.
Examples of the benefits of using technology in healthcare
The advantage of the health sector is that the use of technological advances can lead to different perspectives, from clinical to management.
Let’s take a look at some of its advantages:
- Save time on medication, diagnosis or discovery.
- Artificial Intelligence can help, through data analysis, to accelerate the study and analysis of different drugs, as well as drugs. We will see an example later.
- Advances in research, which can improve the prediction of suspected diseases, and improve the appropriate treatment.
- Speed ​​and accuracy in research and medicine, which increases the chances of success and analysis of the results of this.
- Using software that can be used to monitor patients remotely, collect a variety of data.
Technology solutions for the healthcare sector
Being a technology to support the challenges presented by the healthcare sector, Telefónica Tech offers technical solutions to ensure the efficient use of medical resources, whether digital or physical assets.
Processes that, thanks to technology, can be effective and autonomous in order to reduce management, increase safety or create group communication or work efficiently.
For example, the stability of people – whether patients or healthcare workers – with IoT (Internet of Things) products, together with the involvement of valuable products, can help to improve the planning and management of operational or care processes.
AI versus cognitive impairment
Telefónica Tech has a solution to detect cognitive impairment with Artificial Intelligence to predict when the mental health of each patient is evaluated.
A solution with an accuracy of 93% helps medical professionals to diagnose and manage neurological and psychiatric diseases at an early stage through voice analysis, recognition of speech recognition.
Early detection of cognitive impairment through voice analysis, an AI platform that in just one minute allows algorithms to identify possible memory problems, helps to understand how information is stored and/or retrieved.
This solution has advantages for patients, healthcare professionals and hospital administrators:
- Patients see their satisfaction increase as errors in diagnosis are reduced and medical care is improved as waiting times are reduced.
- Healthcare workers see how the tools they can access to help them do their jobs are more accurate, disease control by 10% and early detection by 20%.
- Likewise, hospital managers see how they can reduce their costs and increase the diagnostic services provided.
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