New Zealand On The Way To Digital Health

Every stakeholder needs to prepare in time for the waves of technological innovation transforming the medical sector and the pharma industry. Regulators and decision-makers with the right policies could do the most for a swift and smooth transit into the future. New Zealand’s government recognized the challenges and made important steps to facilitate the adoption of digital health. Responsible governments prepare their citizens for technological changes With the spread of social media and other disruptive technologies, such as artificial intelligence, health sensors, robotics, 3D printing or nanotechnology, healthcare is on the verge of a paradigm shift. Accessibility to information and knowledge, the availability of technological solutions by-passing the medical system leads to a change in the doctor-patient relationship as well as the fall of the “ivory tower” of medicine. The centuries-old notion that the source of ultimate medical knowledge resides in the heads of doctors and professors is disappearing. Transformation is also fuelled by the fact that healthcare systems have more and more problems and the old methods do not bring the expected solutions. The World Health Organization estimates that there is a worldwide shortage of around 4.3 million physicians, nurses, and allied health workers, and care is often unavailable where it is most needed. Worse, with civilizational diseases like diabetes and obesity on the rise, healthcare costs are expected to grow even fa...
Source: The Medical Futurist - Category: Information Technology Authors: Tags: Healthcare Policy digital health digital health strategy future health policy Innovation new zealand policy-making regulations technology Source Type: blogs