Medical Design Briefs - February 2023 - 8

2023 Tech Trends:
Why Digital Health
Will Lead to
Improved
Patient Care
Dr. Lisa Anderson, CEO and co-founder,
Paragonix Technologies
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Russ Johannesson, CEO, Glooko
Stuart Long, CEO, InfoBionic
Tommy Carls, vice president of product
development and marketing, Proprio
he latest developments in
medical technologies - including
the use of artificial intelligence,
telehealth, integrated
technologies, and data
intelligence - are geared toward improving
patient engagement. Clinical
precision medicine, which includes leveraging
the individual patient's data,
connecting the patient with their provider,
and then leveraging AI or machine
learning in a way that will help
drive behavior change specific to the individual
is one example of how this
trend is taking shape. In addition,
next-generation telehealth platforms
can increase overall satisfaction through
seamless integration with other patient
engagement tools, automation of administrative
workflows, and dedication
to continuous updates.
Surgical navigation systems of the future
combine the power of light field
technology with computer vision, data
intelligence, and real-time anatomical
alignment calculations to ensure that
surgeons can make the most informed
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decisions in the operating room. This article
explores these and other trends and
how manufacturers can accommodate
for evolving technology and customer
demands.
How Digital Health Is Evolving
While many wearable technologies began
as a way to help people improve fitness,
they have evolved to take on much
greater diagnostic and other medical
uses. According to market research firm
Global Data, the wearable tech industry
is currently worth nearly $54 billion.1
" Digital health products like sensors,
wearables, and remote patient monitoring
provide the infrastructure that is at
the heart of connected care, which is a
big part of what our company does -
better connecting patients and their key
data with their healthcare providers,
who - as a result - are able to provide
better and more timely treatment recommendations, "
says Russ Johannesson,
CEO of Glooko, Mountain View, CA.
Johannesson says that how these digital
health products will evolve moving
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forward depends on growing areas like
digital therapeutics and digital clinical
research that require these products and
what these arenas will demand from the
products in the future. The digital therapeutics
market exceeded a valuation of
$6.5 billion in 2022 and is estimated to
expand at 31.5 percent CAGR from 2023
to 2032, driven by growing prominence
of chronic ailments, according to Global
Market Insights.2
" I think, in general, there will continue
to be an increasing demand for connected
care and remote monitoring, and
what will help this is the steadily growing
weight of clinical evidence demonstrating
that better connected care between
patients and providers leads to better
health outcomes, " he says.
" However, practically speaking, we expect
that the actual adoption of technologies
like remote monitoring may happen
at a more deliberate pace rather
than the more accelerated speed much
of industry had hoped for. And what
we've seen in our work is that it all comes
down to having the things in place proMedical
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