Special Report on Pharma & HealthcareDiagnosis for a smarter planetby Jim Adams, IBM Center for Healthcare Management
In healthcare systems, rising costs, limited access, high error rates, lack of coverage, poor response to chronic disease and the lengthy development cycle for new medicines could be improved if there was a link between diagnosis to drug discovery to healthcare providers to insurers to employers to patients and communities |
Today, components, processes and participants that comprise the vast healthcare system are not connected. Duplication and handoffs are rampant. Deep wells of lifesaving information are inaccessible. A smarter healthcare system starts with better connections, better data, and faster and more detailed analysis. It means integrating our data and centering it on the patient, so each person “owns” his or her information and has access to a networked team of collaborative care. It means moving away from paper records, in order to reduce medical errors and improve efficiencies. And it means applying advanced analytics to vast amounts of data, to improve outcomes. Smarter healthcare is instrumented, so our health systems can automatically capture accurate, real-time information. IBM’s joint initiative with Google Health and the Continua Health Alliance enables individuals and families to store and track their health information and stream data from medical devices. 
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