{"id":13951,"date":"2018-09-12T10:41:39","date_gmt":"2018-09-12T09:41:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.devopsonline.co.uk\/?p=13951"},"modified":"2018-09-12T10:42:39","modified_gmt":"2018-09-12T09:42:39","slug":"could-data-hold-the-key-to-better-healthcare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devopsnews.online\/could-data-hold-the-key-to-better-healthcare\/","title":{"rendered":"Could data hold the key to better healthcare?"},"content":{"rendered":"

As healthcare professionals seek to achieve ever-better outcomes, care is becoming increasingly tailored to the individual. Advances in technology mean that specialists can continually improve their understanding of the human body and the effects that stem from the public\u2019s ever-changing lifestyles, leading to ever-more-personalised healthcare services.<\/p>\n

Tailored care is important\u00a0because one size doesn\u2019t fit all. A treatment that will be effective on one person may not be the best course of action for another, even if both have the same condition.<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s healthcare<\/h2>\n

Wearable technology and personalised commercial healthcare services, where organisations analyse someone\u2019s body and lifestyle to provide a customised wellbeing programme, are just the beginning of data transforming healthcare. But in order to accurately tailor medicine providers need to be able to correctly analyse a huge amount of data. Factors such as age, gender, genetic makeup, personal and family medical history and general lifestyle all affect \u2013 to varying extents \u2013 the best course of action for the patient at any given time.<\/p>\n

Trying to collect, store and analyse all these factors and pick out which are relevant to a particular situation, poses enormous challenges. In some cases, these go beyond the capabilities of humans or consumer technology.<\/p>\n

So how can this data challenge be tackled so that healthcare providers can offer services that match people\u2019s unique circumstances?<\/p>\n

Cracking the data conundrum
\n<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The first part of the answer is about gathering the data. The more complete the information is, the better the possible outcomes can be. Providers need to bring together individuals\u2019 traditional medical histories with emerging health data, notably from wearable devices and programmes such as the 100,000 Genomes Project. This means opening up silos of data in innovative ways, given some won\u2019t have been designed to share information beyond the provider\u2019s own \u2018walled garden\u2019.<\/p>\n

All of this needs to be done carefully, to ensure individuals retain control over what information is stored, who can access it and how it\u2019s used. Granular, self-service privacy controls are a must.<\/p>\n

While it\u2019s important to create as complete a picture as possible of someone\u2019s health, not all the data will be relevant in every situation. This brings us to the other part of the answer, which is about processing and analysing huge amounts of data in a timely way.<\/p>\n

Because as well as sifting through the individual patient\u2019s data, systems will need to compare this against de-identified data from other patients (to look for patterns or commonalities), and intelligently decide when to disregard certain data, based on an ever-deeper understanding of health conditions.<\/p>\n

In many cases, this will require secure, high-performance cloud platforms.<\/p>\n

Delivering better\u00a0public services
\n<\/strong><\/h2>\n

As with all pioneering technology initiatives, the key is to creating these capabilities is to take everything step-by-step. Start where there\u2019s the greatest possible benefit and build out, adding data as required. Look first at traditional algorithms for analysis, then move to more sophisticated artificial intelligence once the former reach their limits.<\/p>\n

The prize will be ever-more-personalised healthcare offerings that result in patients leading longer and happier lives. Meanwhile, stretched public health services will be able to treat people more quickly and effectively, reducing the strain on scarce resources.<\/p>\n

Written by\u00a0Zoe Cunningham, Managing Director, Softwire<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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