Post by romanasimran2024 on Feb 10, 2024 23:28:42 GMT -10
When we think about the future of health, as in many sectors, it is inevitable to think about technology. But whether the tools are developed and used appropriately in this area depends on continuing to work on the quality and interoperability of the data on which they are based, on their security and privacy, and on the training of clinicians.
These were the main conclusions of the Argentina Telemarketing Data meeting on the digitalization of the health sector organized by D+I of El Español, in which emphasis was placed on the analysis of medical data to achieve personalized and preventive health care . “Personalized medicine has to be based on data, data that will also help advance processes, decision-making, treatments, etc.,” explained Elisa Martín, director of the Health area at the IIC.
Also participating in the event, which was moderated by Mar Carpena, were César Morcillo, medical director of the Digital Hospital at Sanitas, Alberto Estirado, CIO and Director of Digital Transformation at HM Hospitales, and Rosa María López Carneros, Head of Business Operations at Boehringer Ingelheim. . Everyone agreed that digitalization not only has benefits for the patient, but also allows healthcare professionals to make better decisions and optimize processes and protocols to do their work more effectively.
Standardization and security of health data
Viewing data as the common denominator of all technologies that are being developed and may have application in the health sector, digitalization is essential to generate, analyze and use them. However, this task still has some challenges ahead to truly extract the value of all the information available in the medical field and outside of it.
The key is to integrate data of all types to have more complete information about patients, pathologies and treatments: “When we talk from the concept of a person's health, clinical data does not represent more than 10% of all the information you can have. . To this information we must add much more data related to their lifestyle habits, environmental, socio-economic factors, etc.,” explained Elisa Martín. And a first step for this integration is to structure the data , standardize it and normalize it so that it has the same format.
In this way, you can work with a greater volume of quality data, improving the derived solutions and tools and, consequently, patient care. An example of this was the intelligent alert system that the IIC developed together with the Son LLàtzer University Hospital to detect sepsis early.
And speaking of data, special importance was also given to your safety in the meeting. The participants confirmed that they are already treated with caution and control by the so-called ethical committees , but that we must continue to advance in their regulation and, at the same time, in the training of professionals. Only in this way, Elisa Martín highlighted, will the focus be placed on the real risks and benefits of innovative projects and the fear that often prevents the good uses of data and technology will dissipate.