CES 2023 invited a panel of health professionals to deliver future plans for healthcare and technology in the medical field, especially in this age after the pandemic. It centers on US-based health leaders, which talked about what is coming soon and what actions they are currently taking to address the limitations and challenges it faces now.
The Future of Healthcare in the US and the World
The panel consists of Dr. Carlos Nunez, Chief Medical Officer of Resmed, Dr. Susan Turney, CEO of Marshfield Clinic Health System, Dr. Stephen Klasko, Executive in Residence of General Catalyst, Dr. Vidya Raman-Tangella, Chief Medical Officer of Teledoc Health, and Dr. Anne Docimo, Chief Medical Officer of UnitedHealth.
According to Nunez, the goal of this presentation is to present the plans of the country to improve healthcare in the US and the world. Nunez added that "we're building something new in healthcare," focusing on the global community.
The Pandemic's Effect and Help to Improving Healthtech
The panel considers the pandemic to be a massive factor in accelerating and catalyzing the current system, something it wants to "merge from and live with" in the coming years. The panel considers that the pandemic is a massive change factor in how people live now, and it has forever changed the system, especially since it exists in the world.
Nunez said that there are a lot of partnerships and collaborations in the health care systems in the world and uses the CES 2023's health exhibitors as an example of the growing alliances in improving the system.
The growing collaborations all center on technology and how it will be utilized in the future to deliver healthcare and its services to the public, its top clients.
For many years, healthcare has had specific tools and gizmos that "for 25, 30 years, that we never fully utilized," says Dr. Turney, with systems like telehealth and remote care. All of these were proven useful when the pandemic came, especially as people were not allowed outside their homes to avoid infection.
Technology for the World's Healthcare Needs
Turney added that it only came to a point where the existing technology became an important tool to deliver assistance, to both patients and health professionals.
Dr. Klasko wants to turn the healthcare system "360 degrees" towards consumer revolution for the healthcare system's availability to all, via a hybrid model that these health professionals' discussion.
The pandemic helped "raise awareness on the role of technology in healthcare," says Dr. Raman-Tangella. Everything is connected in this world, from the mind, body, and context that people live in, which is the age of technology in the present.
What is In Store for the Future of Health and Technology?
Telehealth is at 1,700 percent higher than pre-pandemic, and this is the new normal in the current society we live in, utilizing technology and remote healthcare access for the public's needs, says Dr. Docimo. There is a massive 95 percent of local health providers that people have access to when addressing their concerns or asking for medical attention via telehealth in the present.
There is a massive demand for telehealth at present, with providers and health professionals bordered on to adjust their services in this ever-growing world. Dr. Docimo said that the demand is out there, and it is only up to medical providers to deliver this kind of access to the public, especially in this new age of a hybrid network.
Technology will help in reminding people of annual visits to the hospital, expanding healthcare more to the public, to make it accessible for all.
Data is everywhere, and the challenge now is to unite it in a single platform to consolidate all data and make healthcare universal for the world. There are massive data everywhere, and people thrive with telehealth when they feel "understood" or taken care of by providers.
Every question starts with technology and ends with how it can be used to further improve to the world, with this new hybrid model and network for all to access.
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