Rather Than Current Specialties, Future Healthcare Will Be Organized Around Digital Solutions Like Monitoring, Diagnostics, and Predictive Analytics, Connecting Diverse Conditions, Says Lux Research
BOSTON, MA--(Marketwired - Apr 5, 2016) - Emerging digital technologies are poised to create a new paradigm for healthcare by creating common solutions and establishing connections between seemingly unrelated medical conditions, transforming healthcare traditionally grouped by anatomy and disease specialties, according to Lux Research.
Lux Research established a disease-connection framework by identifying six key facets of digital health -- monitoring, diagnostics, predictive analytics, therapeutics, assistive technology, and behavior augmentation. This framework uncovered more than 65 unique connections among 12 seemingly unrelated conditions with a wide range of causes, symptoms and severity levels.
"The ability to track and gain insight into new streams of information marks a pivotal shift in how clinical decisions will be made. Digital health solutions will transform medicine, using data to help manage several conditions that on the surface may seem very different from one another," said Noa Ghersin, Lux Research Associate and lead author of the report titled, "A Byte a Day: How Digital Health Redraws Health Care and Uncovers Opportunities."
Lux Research analysts built a digital health framework, and re-imagined the future hospital, outlining changes in supply chains and technology development. Among their findings:
The report, titled "A Byte a Day: How Digital Health Redraws Health Care and Uncovers Opportunities," is part of the Lux Research Digital Health and Wellness Intelligence service.
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