TECHNOLOGY
“PERSONALISED CARE DEPENDS ON AN UNDERSTANDING OF THE PATIENT AND DATA ABOUT HOW OTHER PATIENTS RESPONDED TO CARE ”
MATT LAVIN VP & GENERAL MANAGER , LIFEOMIC you a low risk of a bad outcome despite having higher than desired cholesterol values . I ’ m calling the process of giving a personalised diagnosis based on a large set of digital data ‘ Integrative Digital Diagnostics ’.
He continues : “ That ’ s the best name I could come up with to describe a new category of product I ’ ve been hearing about . Many new companies are building IDD products that fit the model of : Give me all of your digital health data and I ’ ll give you a report about some aspect of your health . For example , a company could ask for exercise history , heart rate , EKG , a heart scan and lipid profile , and promise to give you a comprehensive report about your cardiovascular health .”
By looking at all of a patient ’ s healthcare data together – instead of each point separately – the patient can be offered guidance on the most important things to improve and actions that will lead to improvement . New IDD businesses are based on developing an algorithm – usually with machine learning – to discover new connections between data , treatments and outcomes .
“ With all of your data combined , along with data on many other patients and outcomes , companies that have built an IDD can give you a much more accurate view of your cardiac health ,” explains Lavin . “ If you look at a lipid profile alone , for example , you could be misled about the health of a person ,” says Lavin .
Transforming patient care with Integrative Digital Diagnostics The healthcare sector is a popular target for cyberattacks and security is essential to patient care . IDD can be secure if it ’ s built by people who are skilled and take security
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