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AN APPLE WATCH A DAY KEEPS THE DOCTOR AWAYDr Shane McKee @shanemuk
Consultant Clinical Geneticist
Chief Clinical Information Officer, Belfast HSC Trust
The tech paradox in health
Better technology
Better health
Rising life-expectancy
Rising expectations
Widening portfolio
Rising costs
Spiralling data
Increasing bureaucracy
Greater inequalities?
Mission creep
Health
Lifestyle
Medications
Living aids
Care packages
Social
Travel
Housing
Facilities management
Devices
Data
“Health” devices get small and connected
http://www.informationweek.com/healthcare/mobile-and-wireless/10-medical-device-wearables-to-improve-patients-lives
Keeping the doctor* away
Knowledge
“Empowerment”, independence
Family / community / social
Finer grained, informal needs assessment
Alternative service provision
Connecting data to better decisions
Not everything is a health problem
(* Or health professionals in general)
Molly Watt @mollywatttrust
Usher syndrome: genetic cause of deafness & retinitis pigmentosa (progressive blindness)
Staying active, healthy, participative is difficult
Molly uses tech on her own initiative
Uses Apple Watch for:
Navigation, hailing taxis, checking timetables etc
Payments
Alerts (via taptics)
Voice-to-text & Text-to-speech – VoiceOver
Fitness tracking
Staying in touch
http://tinyurl.com/h3q9h6v
@ManeeshJuneja – Digital Futurist
Will advancing technology make doctors unemployed? (some of them, yeah)
Doctors and patients need to embrace new tech
BUT not tech for tech’s sake
Must be acceptable to human beings
Has to lead to better results
Much of the change will be driven from the bottom up, not from the top down
www.maneeshjuneja.com
Emerging paradigm
Disentangling NHS Healthcare from “non-health items”
Using tech in creative ways: fostering innovation
Uberisation of some aspects of traditional healthcare?
Building healthcare delivery models around new social dynamics, enabled by tech
Legislation around “medical devices”
Ensuring equality, avoiding exploitation
Health services, academia, industry, patient organisations, third sector – all need to be prepared to think differently.
Opportunities
Can the HSC sector fight its own obesity to become leaner and fitter?
Designers & Makers of Things
Connectors of Things with people, Things with Things, people with people
Creative solutions for emerging and existing problems
Allowing citizens to shape the future, rather than having it thrust upon them
There is no “Promised Land” – the future is a moving target.
[email protected]@shanemuk