Through a combination of monitoring, awareness, diagnosis and education, treatment and prevention, patients, even those with severe symptoms, can gain more control over their health.
“Our digital solutions can help improve patient health,” said Timothy Brooksmith, Vice President, Global Pharmaceutical Partnerships, Huma. “We accelerate treatment option optimization and treatment switching, ultimately ensuring that the right product is available to the right patient at the right time.”
Huma, a digital healthcare company that provides remote patient monitoring solutions, is applying its technology to the digital devices around us, such as mobile phones and smartwatches, to report new digital biomarkers of disease changes. It provides near real-time data.
These solutions provide individualized and adaptive direction for therapeutic intervention. Use processed input data. This includes new AI-driven algorithms that use robust, high-quality data.
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“This technology means that we can detect when someone is in very serious danger and we can proactively take them to the hospital if necessary,” Brooksmith said.
Huma has also developed a new algorithm to perform cardiovascular risk assessment. In just 3 minutes, you can diagnose whether your risk of developing a cardiovascular event in the next 10 years is low or high.
Patients using Huma during the COVID-19 pandemic had a 3-4 times lower mortality rate than those who did not use the technology.[1] A British study found that 88 percent of people identified by the platform as having a worsening condition had moved forward their heart surgery dates.[2]
This technology also benefits medical institutions. Hospitals using Huma’s platform can reduce readmission rates by more than 30% and nearly double their capacity.[3].
“By providing a remote management solution, we can effectively save hospital days and hospital visits until patients really need them,” says Broke-Smith.
“Together, we can discover new ways to detect disease and its progression, improving the accessibility and reach of healthcare around the world.”
Digital health is already changing the lives of patients, but it’s just the beginning.
Technological advances have spawned a wave of new digital products such as diagnostics, apps and treatments. These mean people can better manage their own health by enabling more informed choices based on individual insights and new delivery mechanisms.
To maximize the benefits of continued advances in digital health, all parties must work together to create a forward-looking and trustworthy framework that can facilitate such advances.
Access to health data for the purposes of healthcare delivery and research – the driving force behind these innovation leaps – must be enabled with international data flows compliant with all necessary privacy measures.
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[3] Kent Surrey NHS, Sussex Health Science Network, Assessment Report, October 2020
