Paradigm Shift in Care Delivery

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Decide Wisely: A Guide to Choosing A Medical Specialty In The Post-Pandemic Digital Healthcare Era

The world is gradually changing as the years go by. Who would have thought that healthcare services can be accessed through our smartphones and other digital devices?

In the next 10 years, our goal is to prevent readmissions in hospitals. How will it be possible?

Paradigm Shift in Healthcare

When we say that in the next 10 years our goal is to prevent readmissions, we meant by providing healthcare services before it occurs or gets worse. Oftentimes, patients will only consult a healthcare provider once their symptoms are at risk.

“Telehealth will play a significant role in the provision of healthcare services in the future, and it has real systemic advantages that go beyond what we can currently do.”

Therefore, this will play a key role in the digital health strategy.

The Need for a Digital Health Strategy

It can be seen that during the height of the pandemic, a lot of people have been restrained from consulting health clinics and hospitals due to the possible spread out of COVID-19. Medical experts have tried shifting their health services through different digital platforms.

It’ll be more accessible to everyone at lower costs.

Here are some of the factors that mainly affect the healthcare system globally:

Fact #1: Aging Population

Based on research, people aged 65 and above are the largest contributor to the expenditure on healthcare. Why do you think so? Over the past years, society has thought that only aging people require healthcare services. Thus, only by the time, they reach the age of 65 and above, diseases may have been showing up, or worst it may lead to death. If we can prevent and detect possible diseases at an early age, we can expect a higher healthy life expectancy. Imagine a world where you can reach up to 80 and above while still enjoying your time with your family and not staying in a bed hospital.

Fact #2: 5% take 50%

When you look at the healthcare expenditure distribution according to the age that uses it, only 5% of the population is responsible for around 50%. It is unbelievable that the amount of care expenditure is high in these age groups because they have chronic conditions which require repeat admissions into the hospitals.

Fact #3: Inpatient Expenditure

On average, patients with high needs have higher spending across all types of health services. If we can detect at an early stage possible health conditions, we can effectively decrease the possibility of inpatient workloads and save a bunch of load money. The reason why digital health plays a vital role in this time of post-pandemic healthcare era. To monitor and prevent patients’ conditions in a more accessible way.

The Value of Remote Monitoring

Patients can be monitored in the comfort of their homes. There are individuals, methods, and platforms— such as NeuroCare.AI —that enable the patient's therapies to be observed, altered, and shown in real time which saves a lot of money for the country, system, and even you.

It won’t be easy to achieve this kind of goal, especially in the healthcare industry but if we can start preventing it at the smallest, sooner or later, we can achieve a longer healthy life expectancy in society.

Paradigm Shift in Care Delivery