29 Aug What does INTO THE FUTURE mean for our community? Part 2
We have been asking our insightful community of supporters, mentors, coaches and partners what they think of when it comes to ‘Into The Future’? – For their thoughts on what innovation may happen in the near future, gaps that need solving in healthcare, what they can see in their crystal ball and more. We are thrilled to share their sharp, knowing and animating answers in part 2 of this series.
(Read part 1 here)
We are always fascinated by how our startups can find solutions to complex healthcare problems. At our INTO THE FUTURE Demo Day on 31st August 2021 the startups will present their businesses and explain how they solve issues for now and for the future. But we are equally as fascinating by what our community think of when it comes to the topic of ‘Into The Future’. Here are some of their answers…
Aline Noizet, Founder, Digital Health Connector
What do you think will be the biggest change in healthcare in the next 5 years?
Decentralized care! The care is going where the patient is, instead of the patient going to the primary care center or hospital. People are being more empowered and will be able to consume healthcare from wherever they want 24/7.
What kind of innovation do you want to see happen in the future of healthcare?
Monitoring innovation that will enable each of us to track our health continuously and take action early if needed. Those innovations should empower us and treat us as persons, so we understand clearly what is happening and the course of action to take, from prevention to cure. Personalized lifestyle recommendations based on our DNA and microbiome profile for us to be at our full potential.
Where are the gaps right now in healthcare that need solving first?
Regulation. Have a clear regulatory framework, coordinated and interoperable between countries.
Data sharing. Being able to access and process data in order to advance drug development, improve treatments.
Involve patients and healthcare professionals more in the development of technological solutions
What can you see in your crystal ball? What does Into The Future of healthcare mean for you?
Empowered patients! Patients as CEO of their own health, participating fully in the decisions made about their health and supported by the right tools and care team (human part is key!). Personalized treatment made for me!
Michael Hübner, Projektmanager, Sana Digital
What do you think will be the biggest change in healthcare in the next 5 years?
In my opinion there will be several big trends that will change healthcare as we know it in the next 5 years, such as personalized medicine through gene sequencing, connected devices (iot) and telemedicine, move to cloud, establishment of platforms, data and analytics for evidence based medicine, transformation from inpatient towards more outpatient care, rise of value-based healthcare, etc. Choosing one is difficult. – For the next 5 years I would assume that the establishment of an international market leading healthcare platform combining a lot of the earlier named topics for customers/patients will have the largest impact changing the delivery of healthcare throughout the continuum of care as we know it.
What kind of innovation do you want to see happen in the future of healthcare?
More value-based patient centric and evidence based healthcare replacing old procedures instead of adding on and thereby making healthcare not just more effective but also more efficient and economically sustainable.
Where are the gaps right now in healthcare that need solving first?
Education and primary prevention can have a large impact on population health and thereby lower healthcare spendings as well as improving public health and the quality of life.
If you could drop everything right now and create any related product or service – what would it be?
I would probably aim to team up with big healthcare payer and provider to create a digital platform integrating the concept of HMO and ACO to provide state of the art highly digitized affordable healthcare services to selected customer
What can you see in your crystal ball? What does Into The Future of healthcare mean for you?
I will improve healthcare on a systematic level as part of the digital strategy department of one Germanys largest integrated healthcare provider.
Thank you to our community for sharing their insights. Find out more about our upcoming Demo Day – INTO THE FUTURE – on 31 August 2021.