Nowadays, healthcare system is becoming more advanced due to technologies and new innovations. But still, due to the factors like excessive regulation and a shortage of doctors, the system seems to be broken. To improve the healthcare system, many companies and other healthcare organization are looking into it and finding a way in which the healthcare system won’t be broken.
Ways to save the broken healthcare system:
Companies like Amazon, Google and Facebook are hiring leaders from healthcare and pharmaceutical industry. Many techies from these companies are looking to deliver a proper and quality healthcare at home itself using different methods. They are also thinking to make the entire healthcare system smarter and cost-effective.
In the year 2015-2016, 25 million people had been infected due to flu and nearly 310,000 people were hospitalized. The doctors and researchers made a model with the help of Twitter which can predict a number of flu cases and its spread in different countries. This way, treatment for the patients can be started early and many lives can be saved.
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Likewise, Google and Facebook have also helped healthcare system by collecting a large amount of data related to people who commit suicide and depression. Facebook, with the help of National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, has created a lifeline number. Executives on these numbers can talk to people and encourage them to not take such steps that are harmful to their lives.
The treatment delivered by the techies to the healthcare system could improve lowering the costs and increasing communication between patients. Naysayers say that the health problem is a personal matter, which people would not like to share with the company like Amazon.
Several companies like Colgate and Johnson and Johnson are sensitive to consumers; because they know what the customers actually want. This can help to develop a better healthcare system which will improve patients’ life and tackle the problems faced by them.
Date: June 23, 2017