As the world faces a mental health crisis, a panel at HBI 2023 discussed the impact telehealth and digital therapeutics have on the sector. But with growing demand and a lack of capacity, to what extent can a crisis of global proportions be tackled?
When election seasons roll around, reforming social care is often allegedly at the top of party agendas, yet care systems across Europe remain chronically underfunded and under stress. In an HBI 2023 panel entitled ‘The homecare technology revolution’, three business founders shared how technology and their business models are disrupting the home care sector.
AI and big data are primed to improve clinical outcomes and standards for radiologists as well as the health care sector as a whole, but how far along the journey to automated care delivery are we? In an HBI 2023 panel discussion ‘AI and Big Data: Outcomes and Automation,’ panellists explored how automation could speed up diagnosis to treatment from 2 weeks to 15 minutes.
Unlisted Spanish hospital group HM Hospitales’ announced its FY22 results which saw revenue up 7.5% to €617m, as groups battle for second place in the market.
For years there has been a trend towards using outpatient services wherever possible - to improve patient outcomes, to better use an increasingly scarce workforce, and to increase cost efficiency. On the “Outpatient differential” panel at HBI 2023, how this push looks across the world was a key topic for discussion.
“There are so many other areas in women’s health, beyond fertility, where funding isn’t developed”. Katya Zubareva, a partner at L.E.K. Consulting kicked off HBI 2023’s “Investment opportunity in fertility and women’s health” panel with a fascinating question: why is women’s health hyper focused on fertility?
Outpatient models have the ability to lower barriers for customers through location, opening hours and convenience - but what do clinicians make of changes designed to keep patients happy - and how do operators keep key staff onboard?
During the Covid pandemic everyone had to get used to self-testing at home on a regular basis. Speakers on the ‘Laboratory diagnostics - where after Covid?’ panel at HBI 2023 said we will likely be doing a lot more at-home testing in the future, but that it won’t replace in-clinic testing.
In the future health care will be much more consumer-centric, personalised and outpatient-heavy. Speakers on a panel at HBI 2023 entitled ‘The shape of things to come’ explained how digitisation, data and new types of medtech are already beginning to move things in this direction.
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