Digital health definitions vary but the term is usually used to describe the use of information and communications technologies to exchange medical information. How it is used and for what purpose varies from one use case to the next.
Here's how I slice and dice the industy:
1. Remote sensing and wearables
2. Telemedicine
3. Data analytics and intelligence, predictive modeling, AI, blockchain
4. Health and wellness behavior modification tools
5. Bioinformatics tools (-omics)
6. Medical social media
7. Digitized health record platforms
8. Patient-physician patient portals
9. DIY diagnostics, compliance and treatments
10. Decision support systems
Research published by MarketsandMarkets projected that the healthcare artificial intelligence market is expected to grow from $667.1 million in 2016 to more than $7.9 billion by 2022, a compound annual growth rate of 53 percent over the forecast period. This explains why companies such as IBM and Google are dominating advancements as they develop deep learning techniques that can revolutionize the way diseases are diagnosed, treated, and even prevented.
However, with AI’s success, comes its many challenges.
According to Niall Brennan, former chief data officer at Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), one of the key challenges related to whether or not artificial intelligence and machine learning gain traction is “translating it into something tangible that will resonate with payers and lead them to think about realigning financial incentives” to improve patient outcomes and reduce healthcare costs. In other words, while you need to demonstrate technical, commerical and clinical value, you also need to make the business case for translating data to value.
Artificial intelligence is being deployed in sick care in many different ways:
If that doesn't make your head explode, how about combining AI with blockchain? Or using AI to pick AI investment winners? Or a platform that allows you to use AI to create AI?
The list of potential AI applications in biomedicine and clinical care will continue to expand. The challenges for AIntrepreneurs are substantial. Most AI digital health companies will fail (here are the reasons why) and they will have to deal with the social, economic and ethical issues.
We will all need to work together if patients and doctors are to win the 4th industral revolution.
Arlen Meyers, MD, MBA is the President and CEO of the Society of Physician Entrepreneurs.
We need more digital tools that can help both clinicians and patients make better healthcare decisions.
To best assist doctors, clinical computing tools should approximate the same process.
Excellent! A paradigm shift is over due in terms of health care and how we solve problems in this time and age.
Well-explained
Arlen Meyers, MD, MBA is a professor emeritus of otolaryngology, dentistry, and engineering at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and the Colorado School of Public Health and President and CEO of the Society of Physician Entrepreneurs at www.sopenet.org. He has created several medical device and digital health companies. His primary research centers around biomedical and health innovation and entrepreneurship and life science technology commercialization. He consults for and speaks to companies, governments, colleges and universities around the world who need his expertise and contacts in the areas of bio entrepreneurship, bioscience, healthcare, healthcare IT, medical tourism -- nationally and internationally, new product development, product design, and financing new ventures. He is a former Harvard-Macy fellow and In 2010, he completed a Fulbright at Kings Business, the commercialization office of technology transfer at Kings College in London. He recently published "Building the Case for Biotechnology." "Optical Detection of Cancer", and " The Life Science Innovation Roadmap". He is also an associate editor of the Journal of Commercial Biotechnology and Technology Transfer and Entrepreneurship and Editor-in-Chief of Medscape. In addition, He is a faculty member at the University of Colorado Denver Graduate School where he teaches Biomedical Entrepreneurship and is an iCorps participant, trainer and industry mentor. He is the Chief Medical Officer at www.bridgehealth.com and www.cliexa.com and Chairman of the Board at GlobalMindED at www.globalminded.org, a non-profit at risk student success network. He is honored to be named by Modern Healthcare as one of the 50 Most Influential Physician Executives of 2011 and nominated in 2012 and Best Doctors 2013.
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