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How ecosystems can support mHealth?
Bringing improved population wellbeing, health service efficiencies and economic opportunity through the use of technology enabled solutions.
Background
• Drivers for mHealth and for eHealth are obvious for many
• Not always very well understood by policy makers
• The challenges are universal
Health systems challenges …..we all know them…..• Increasing Demand due to:
• Ageing Populations• Rise of Chronic Diseases
• Already Stretched Services
• Planned Reform of Health Services in Ireland• Universal Health Insurance• Money Follows the Patient• Formation of Hospital Groups
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mHealth is about transformation
Person
Community
Primary
Secondary
Tertiary
Individual Self-care
Friends & Family
Community Networks
Professionals as Facilitators
Professionals as Partners
Professionals as Authorities
Transformation Through Cost-Effective Use of Information & Communication Technologies
Industrial Age Healthcare Information Age Healthcare
Source: Adapted from Malaysian Telemedicine Blueprint
Opportunities that mHealth provides
• Empowered patients•
• Safer and better quality services
• More efficent services by eliminating multiple transactions
What are the barriers to m-health enablement
• Health Care transactions – Are complex– About people when they are vulnerable– Services delivered by multiple professionals, multiple
providers over many locations– Change processes to bring about change are not
simple– Legal issues – Technology issues– Privacy and confidentiality issues
Privacy is a key issue …..
Ireland’s contribution
• Ireland held the EU Presidency in Jan-June 2013
• We held eHealth week last May
• Meeting of EU Ministers and Experts
• The Irish Declaration agreed at that meeting about ehealth ecosystems
The Dublin Declaration, May 2013
• “A strong commitment to developing eHealth ecosystems in support of reforming health systems and innovation was demonstrated by all participants”.
• “eHealth ecosystems, comprising health and social care providers, industry, research institutions, authorities and ….. represent a positive response to the opportunities and challenges in a specific geographical area, and can accelerate the development and adoption of innovative solutions ….. providing real and tangible …. benefits for individual patients and other citizens”.
Intel Quadruple Helix Innovation
Government, Academia, Industry and Citizens collaborating together to drive structural changes far beyond the scope of any one organization could
achieve on it’s ownGovernment/Public
Academic
Industry
Citizen
What did the Declaration say about ecosystems?
• Improve the understanding of healthcare needs• Support the health reform process• Improve user acceptance for improved process
management• Increase understanding and exploitation of new
and innovative public/ private business models• Provide the rationale to build the necessary
partnerships• Incentivise plans for pilot-to-deployment, and• Create multi sector synergies
All parties agreed to..
• Strengthen the coordination of all policies related to e-Health
• Promote an ecosystem dialogue• Implement disruptive innovation schemes, • Facilitate the use of cross-sectoral high risk,
but high value solutions• Accelerate the implementation of existing and
proven devices and processes
Ecosystems Innovation …..moving out of the Lab
Intel
Centralized inward looking innovationClosed Innovation
Ecosystem centric, cross-organizational innovation Innovation Networks Ecosystems
Externally focused, collaborative innovation Open Innovation
Ireland update
• eHealth strategy finalised and published
• eHealth Ireland entity• CIO• Health Identifiers Bill• APJ 2014• MoU with NI
Its only beginning……
American Health care is one of the last great industries to remain largely undisturbed by information technology revolution of the past few decades
– Vijay Vaitheeswaran, The Economist, November 22, 2010
Medicine has built on a long history of innovation, from the stethoscope and roentgenorgram, to the MRI. Doctors have embraced each new technology to advance patients care. But nothing has changed clinical practice more fundamentally than one recent innovation: the Internet.Pamela Hartzband and Jerome Groopman , New England Journal of Medicine.
Ecosystems supporting mHealth
Thank you for your time…….