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Digital transformation in health-care

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Digital Transformation in health-care - the algorithmen revolution

 

Journal "Botenstoff" by Human Technology Cluster Styria, Vol 3, 2018

 

 

Never before has so much data been gathered on the health of individuals. But what is the point of it all, and how should we handle it? An interview with experts and practitioners in medical technology about the opportunities and risks of the data explosion.

 

Digitalization of in health-care and medicine sectors has already started. Runners using heart rate sensors, cardiac monitoring used intensive care, digitalization of tissue sections in pathology and biobanking. In future, the patients will have access to all their medical data – the electronic patient record [being rolled out in Austria at the moment] is just a beginning …

 

All over, data are piling up and await some kind of useful evaluation.

 

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(C) Human Technology Styria