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I'd like to first share a series of healthcare stats, courtesy of rock health, that provide insight into the field of digital health's current initiatives. I'll pause for a few seconds on each slide before moving on.
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Published on Mar 30, 2016

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Digital Health

I'd like to first share a series of healthcare stats, courtesy of rock health, that provide insight into the field of digital health's current initiatives. I'll pause for a few seconds on each slide before moving on.

THE US HEALTHCARE CRISIS

  • Nearly 1 in 2 American adults live with at least one chronic illness (CDC, 2012)
  • The U.S. spends almost $8,600 per capita on healthcare, 30% higher than the closest industrialized country (World Bank, 2013)

THE US HEALTHCARE CRISIS

  • Life expectancy in the U.S. is an estimated 78.62 years, ranking 51st globally (CIA Factbook, 2013)
  • There are between 210-410k deaths due to medical errors per year, making medical errors the 3rd leading cause of death in the U.S., after heart disease and cancer (Journal of Patient Safety, 2013)

THE US HEALTH SPENDING

  • 75% of all healthcare dollars are spent on patients with one or more chronic conditions, many of which can be prevented, including diabetes, obesity, heart disease, lung disease, high blood pressure, and cancer (CDC)

US HEALTHCARE & TECHNOLOGY

  • The vast majority of patients (90%) want to self-manage their healthcare via technology, including medical information, refilling prescriptions and booking appointments online (Accenture, 2012)

THE BUSINESS OF HEALTHCARE

  • Digital health funding reached $4.1B in 2014. (Rock Health, 2014)
  • The digital health industry surpassed total medical device venture funding in 2014. (Rock Health, 2014)

What is Digital Health?
DH is the convergence of the digital and genetics REVOLUTIONS with health, healthcare, living, and society. - Paul Sonnier, The Story of Digital Health

Digital health is focused on:

  • Empowering individuals to better track, manage, and improve their own and their family’s health.
  • Reducing inefficiencies in healthcare delivery, improve access, reduce costs, and increase quality.
  • Making medicine more personalized and precise.
  • - Paul Sonnier, The Story of Digital Health
Who does the digital healthcare field include?
DH is a multi-disciplinary domain which involves many stakeholders, including clinicians, researchers and scientists with a wide range of expertise in healthcare, engineering, social sciences, public health, health economics and management. - Institute of Digital Healthcare

The Story of Digital Health

Opportunities in DH

  • Mobile Healthcare
  • Clinical Informatics/Analytics
  • Privacy and Data Breach Prevention
bullet point 1: According to German market research firm research2guidance, the worldwide market for mobile health applications and their corresponding services reached $2.4 billion in revenue in 2013 and will grow to $26 billion by the end of 2017. Mobile health start-up (as an example) jobs rage from software developers, data scientists, marketing/communication specialists, opportunities in finance, customer acquisition and success (sales), graphic design, business development (RE: Angel-list)


Bullet point 2: An advanced degree in health informatics can be very useful. Data mined by those with analytic skill can be used to understand population health, helping better identify infectious disease outbreaks and other population health trends, and can also be used to help a hospital’s bottom line. Areas of focus include: disease management and the Internet, decision support, the human-computer interaction and interfaces, the electronic medical record, HIPAA, telemedicine, standardized medical terminology and messaging systems, security of health care systems, and the privacy of patient data. USF, and UC Davis both have online programs.

Bullet point 3: Mobile devices in healthcare institutions are giving rise to new data security and liability risks. Connected devices – another way of describing "The Internet of Things" – should be called the "Security of things" in healthcare as these present many of the same security and privacy breach rises aspects, and even greater risks because the devices are designed to act automatically without active human direction. -Healthcare IT News. Examples of roles, Corporate Responsibility Privacy Officer, health information management officer, health information privacy specialist, privacy manager,
http://www.onetonline.org/crosswalk/CIP?s=51.0707+-+Health+Information+Tech...

http://www.healthcareguy.com/2014/10/26/health-it-and-digital-health-job-op...

Health Innovation: What’s Next?

2015 Digital Health Summit
start at 4:50 - 7:43
2 emerging trends that are disrupting the healthcare industry. Introduced by: Brendan Gallagher, Executive Vice President of Experience Strategy & Innovation, Digitas Health LifeBrands

He's zany and a little hard to follow, but the information and insights related the future of healthcare and the notion of care-jacking and cyborgs is interesting

http://digitalhealthsummit.com/portfolio/healthtech-talk-health-innovation-...

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