Expert Insights: Burning Down the Barriers to Data-Driven Healthcare in Asia

Author: Dr. Russell Leftwich, With an engineering background and over 20 years of medical practice

FHIR, the health data standard built for the Internet, is changing how clinicians, hospitals, and governments deliver healthcare. By enabling data-driven care, it promotes better outcomes, efficiency, and patient experience. Global FHIR expert Dr. Russell Leftwich from InterSystems writes about the new standard and its rapid adoption in Asia.

As populations live longer, medical treatments improve, and expectations for equitable access to care increase, demand for healthcare services continues to grow. With the global shortage of medical professionals, no country can meet the healthcare challenges and increasing expectations of an older population by maintaining a traditional approach to care provision.

At the same time, new diagnostic technology, including genomic sequencing, is creating exponentially increasing amounts of data, making new technologically driven approaches even more imperative.

Data-driven models of care and advances in technology like Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) can and must bridge the gap to help clinicians be more productive and patients and their families more involved in managing their care. The Internet and smart devices have already revolutionized almost every other industry. Now, it’s healthcare’s turn... 🔗 https://www.asianhhm.com/information-technology/data-driven-healthcare-in-asia