Aging accelerates health care industry is becoming the new power of applied economy

Omri Shore's venture originated from an accident, the Financial Times website reported October 27. Before 2.5, his 59-year-old father had been injected with an overdose of insulin and was at risk.

Affected by this matter, Shore developed Medisafe application, can remind the user to take medicine promptly, receive the treatment, if the patient takes medicine on time, receives the treatment, the application will inform the family member and the doctor.

"We call it a platform for medical care--a relationship between patients and doctors," says Shore. "Medisafe has been downloaded to nearly 1 million smartphones to help patients take medication and receive treatment on time for about 86% of the day," he said. According to the World Health Organization, only 50% of patients receive medication on time.

The development of Medisafe as the representative will change the global medical technology industry. According to Statista, a well-known statistic company, the global medical technology industry is about 350 billion dollars (about 2.1514 trillion yuan). Although most of the new technologies traditionally come from the US and Western Europe, Asian countries, especially China, will play an increasingly important role in the coming years.

Experts say one of the major challenges for the next 100 years will be how technology can help care for the world's elderly population, especially diabetes, heart disease, cancer and Alzheimer's disease.

The World Economic Forum predicts that the disease will cause the global economy to lose 47 trillion dollars (about 289 trillion yuan) in 2011-2030 years-equivalent to more than 60% of global GDP last year. Eric Dishman, general manager of the Intel Health and Life Sciences group, said, "At present our civilization is still young and we are not familiar with the economic reality of the future." Dishman ”

Shore says sensors and smartphone data need to be combined with biological information to improve health in the elderly in three ways: improving the personalization of medical technology, improving communication between patients and health care providers, and treating patients outside hospitals.

Both Intel and IBM are working with Chinese local governments to help them design a more friendly environment for older people, including installing sensors at home and bus stations to facilitate patients seeking help from doctors remotely.

Another part of the solution is smart software, which can react quickly to health problems and make predictions before they occur.

However, there are still obstacles to realize full digitalization of nursing care for the elderly. Dishman pointed out that if the use of a tablet computer to send doctors through WiFi access to important medical information, certainly do not want the Internet speed because of the neighbors watching Netflix, but the "network neutrality" principle makes the Internet for medical information and other types of information alike.

(Responsible editor: Mengyishan)