Release date: 2014-12-25
At the end of the year, all walks of life entered the inventory season. The Financial Times launched a special issue in December to summarize the technological innovations in the medical industry. Mobile healthcare is one of its priorities. This article excerpts the essence to readers. Reminder: The special issue is aimed at the Anglo-American market, its health care system and domestic differences, the views in the text are for reference only.
From focusing on disease to focusing on health
The ever-changing high-tech will continue to pay attention to the state of patients outside the hospital.
Spire is an electronic device that is smaller than a walnut. You can collect your breathing information by simply hanging it on a belt or bra. It knows that you are nervous, focused or calm, helping you train to improve your mood and mental health, and soon it will integrate with other mobile apps, such as a mobile calendar, to accurately depict the moments you feel the best every day.
Developed by a California biotechnology company, Spire is one of a new generation of wearable devices that may rewrite health management methods. It makes people's concern for their health no longer limited to the time when they are suffering from hospitalization, but they continue to pay attention to whether the state is good on weekdays.
Jonathan Palley, a partner founder and CEO of Spire, believes that mobile healthcare should go beyond simply recording a personal daily exercise, such as walking. He stressed that Americans spend less than four hours a day on average, while Spire provides 24-hour continuous monitoring. “The core is how you collect valuable information throughout the day to expand your application's health information, not at the gym and running for a short while. The value of Spire is to use this information to make tomorrow better every day.â€
From Apple's Health Kit, which houses a wide range of mobile applications and devices, to Google and Novartis's smart contact lenses that monitor blood sugar, large technology companies are increasingly interested in helping consumers become more involved in their health management. Startups like Spire, Fitbit, Jawbone, etc. are racing against the relevant departments of medical device companies, and are committed to launching products that appeal to patients and doctors.
Jonathan Palley has a background in big data analytics, and he predicts that the launch of health monitoring devices will be like a blowout, just as people are keen on taking selfies after the promotion of smartphones. Palley described the era of cameras, the family waiting in line for professional photographers to take a family portrait, and now almost a hand-held smart phone, snapshots at any time to record the great changes in happy hours. “The current health system is costly and cumbersome; but we have entered a world of fast service like Instgram, where everyone can record data anytime, anywhere.â€
Anurag Gupta, a technology analyst at Gartner, who focuses on the digital healthcare market, believes that there are two factors driving continued health testing: providers of health services want to ultimately reduce medical costs through early preventive interventions; and patients want more involvement in health management. "Consumer orientation in the health sector means that people want to participate, they don't want to feel like a mouse." He added: In chronic diseases like diabetes, patients have to do their own daily blood glucose monitoring and insulin injections, moving Medical care is especially helpful.
Andrew Rosenthal, Jawbone's bracelet product manager, said that employers in the United States typically provide health insurance, and employers encourage employees to participate in daily health and medical monitoring. “We have noticed that employers’ attention to employees’ mobile medical participation has been limited to monitoring during sick periods and transitioning to ongoing health and lifestyle monitoring.†Although Jawbone is not aimed at emergency medical care or complex chronic diseases, it can serve as a starting point for communication between doctors and patients in the clinic. Patients may forget their own food intake and daily exercise, but Spire will faithfully and accurately record everything in the past. “Our service liberates doctors and the medical system from the complicated and repeated forms of filling out. People see 1.5 doctors and 10 pharmacists a year, but they use our mobile app three times a day. We don’t do heart surgery. Or to prescribe a doctor's job, we provide information about all-weather (24/7) patients, especially those outside the hospital."
Evoke Neuroscience manufactures a range of clinical instruments for measuring neuroelectrophysiology in situations such as concussion. Their products are small and cheap, making it possible to promote products to private clinics without being limited to large hospitals. In the end, they hope to sell the product directly to the terminal patient. The company's founder, James Thompson, once dealt with the concussion in the track and field project and witnessed the change in this type of equipment from $20,000 to $500. Although it is not particularly cheap, it is already "the price of a mobile phone that people can afford." ". The innovation of medical devices is driven by startups, and James believes that although many of these companies will eventually be acquired by large companies, it is beneficial to promote mainstream health monitoring throughout the day. “It’s going to happen that big companies realize that small companies are light, flexible and innovative, and big companies are turning from developers to buyers, and will eventually maintain industry leadership through mergers and acquisitions.â€
Source: Arterial Network
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