Welcome to the fourth in our series of Life Sciences and Healthcare predictions 2025.
Prediction for 2025. Advances in AI-enabled robotics, cognitive automation and digitalisation are helping HCPs work more productively – architecting the who, what, where and how work is done. As such, all HCPs now practice at the top of their professional license and have enriched career paths. Task shifting and task reorganisation are commonplace, leading to a diverse, blended workforce that provides care where and when needed. All HCPs participate in multi-professional training based on adaptive, agile ways of working to help them adopt innovation.
The world in 2025
Conquered constraints in 2025
A snapshot of a patient in 2025: Expediting a patient’s safe diagnosis and treatment
80-year-old Tony has a chesty cough (with sputum) which is getting worse, so he uses his GP’s AI-enabled clinical assessment tool. Possible pneumonia is diagnosed and a recommendation that he speaks to his doctor immediately.
Dr Jones gets an urgent alert. He reviews Tony’s medical notes (he’s generally fit and healthy) and looks at the real-time wellness data from his wearable devices (which, coupled with Tony’s symptoms, suggest he may be at risk of developing sepsis related to pneumonia and needs immediate medical attention. Dr Jones instigates an online consultation and activates the despatch of a Smart e-ambulance equipped with a video- and voice-collaboration platform.
Dr Jones sends the paramedics Tony’s results via an API-integrated platform ensuring that the e-ambulance has an appropriate sepsis biomarker test kit and specific antibiotic medication on board to enable Tony’s infection to be treated without delay.
Evidence in 2020
How COVID-19 has accelerated this prediction
Deloitte’s view
Health systems had little time to respond to COVID-19. They nevertheless reorganised services, trained staff to work in new ways in unfamiliar teams, developed effective ways to support the wellbeing of staff and delivered safe patient care, all in the shortest of time frames.
One notable outcome of this change-management programme is an accelerated adoption of digital technologies – like new robotic processes to support service delivery and telehealth consultations. Hospitals are also using data analytics and automated dash boards so staff can work more efficiently.
AI-enabled platforms
Vimercate Hospital (Lombardy, Italy) collaborated with Fujifilm to implement an AI platform, REiLI, to help deliver a timely COVID-19 response to the influx of patients with serious breathing difficulties. REiLI processes CT scans and chest X-rays, providing vital support for radiologists via rapid objective assessments of lung zones for pulmonary parenchymal consolidation. The AI data supports daily examination reporting to monitor the disease’s development, as well as clinical analysis and decision making. In the first few months of the pandemic, the tool identified 900+ cases of COVID-19 lung disease.
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