Transcript How connected health will change how we practice

How Connected Health will change
the way we practice medicine
Seamas Donnelly
March 3rd 2016
…. what connected health means to me
…. we will all be patients some day
Escalating Healthcare Costs
$5,152 (2001)
$12,019 (2015)
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Healthcare Costs
Heart Failure
COPD
Asthma
Diabetes
Thrombosis
2010
5 million
An Ageing Population
2010
5 million
2050
21 million
An Ageing Population
… impediments
……. joining the dots
reimbursement model
Affordable Care Act (2014)
Cell & Molecular
Biologist
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
Inhaler Compliance
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
Clinical Trials
Clinical Trials
Smart Inhaler
encrypted electronic date stamp
Definition:
……… Precision medicine is identifying which
approaches will be effective for which patients
based on genetic, environmental, and lifestyle
factors ……...
“Precision medicine -- gives us one of the greatest opportunities for
new medical breakthroughs that we have ever seen”
- President Barack Obama, January 30th 2015
Better Disease Phenotypes
Tailor therapy to individual patients
Maximising patient engagement
Influence individual behaviour
Disease Phenotypes
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)
Disease Phenotypes
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)
Influence an individuals behaviour
Influence an individuals behaviour
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)
Maximising Activity & Independence
2nd Salthill
47th Connacht
278th Ireland
Maximising Activity & Independence
…. we will all be patients some day