2023-06-22 18:56:19
health
Technological advances have given a new perspective to medical centers when offering services.
22/6/2023
With the arrival of the pandemic and its subsequent overcoming in humanity, the medicine sector has undergone substantial changes in various aspects, mainly those related to technological advances, which have led to a digital revolution in health services.
Before, it was not contemplated to offer services such as making consultations by video call, acquiring medicines requested from WhatsApp or remotely monitoring vaccination. All these changes are taking place due to the technological advances that medicine has had in recent years.
The World Health Organization (WHO) considers that digital technologies present new opportunities to address challenges in health systems, which allows them to provide never-before-seen potential to improve coverage and quality of services. The importance of technology is such that the organization created a digital certification valid worldwide a couple of weeks ago.
The WHO announced on June 5 that it will create a health documentation that has the covid-19 vaccination certificate, just as the European Union did during the pandemic. With this decision, the multilateral organization seeks to create a global system with which it hopes to facilitate global mobility and provide protection to the citizens of the world once morest different public health threats, including pandemics.
The measure shows that from the most important body in the world in terms of health, there is a relevance in technological matters. In that order of ideas, the scientific community has put the magnifying glass on digital health.
Additionally, he explains that these advances are at the forefront of the complexity posed by health in current times. For example, digital health uses artificial intelligence, a highly evolved tool capable of storing large amounts of data through a mathematical algorithm that evaluates and gives a result. This aspect has been widely handled for cardiology.
In this order of ideas, it is explained that the intersection between digital health and artificial intelligence occurs in teleconsultations, which have allowed health specialists to reach territories that are difficult to access, whether for reasons of distance or security.
Along with these, tele-interconsultations appear, which according to Benítez have improved communication between health professionals with patients many kilometers away. Tools such as Neuro Vascular Teams (a consultation platform) are backed by the successes they have achieved in this area.
Another striking instrument of digital health are the so-called wearable devices, which record sleep schedules in real time or detect heartbeats. This live information can be seen by a health specialist at the same time, allowing a more accurate diagnosis. For example, there are currently smart watches capable of detecting atrial fibrillation by measuring the atrial rate and identifying irregular patterns in the heart rhythm. Similarly, MRIs have also witnessed advancements in technology. For example, there are tools that facilitate the acquisition of images, allowing the reduction of the time spent by patients in resonators.
Similarly, in cardiac tomographies, artificial intelligence allows for non-invasive assessment of coronary flow in patients. In the past they might only be analyzed by catheterization. In addition, telemonitoring platforms are applied to pathologies such as heart failure or cardiovascular rehabilitation.
These tools have allowed remote monitoring of patients with clinical conditions through a set of sensors associated with a digital platform that manage to capture the necessary data on the state of health, process it and send it to a monitoring center.
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