The future of health will be driven very intensely by digital transformation. This is an indisputable fact, and it is advancing quickly and progressively. The transformation will additionally be driven by interoperable data and by the growing use of open and secure platforms. This evolution of health will concentrate on two major fields: maintaining well-being and responding to disease, which will lead to a better quality of life and possibly to a steadily increasing human longevity.
It is possible that, within the next twenty years, diseases such as diabetes and many forms of cancer will be defeated by scientific progress. Prevention and early diagnosis are becoming standard instruments in the medical arsenal. Tests and the application of sophisticated tools may mean that many diagnoses and forms of care take place in the home, decisively and profoundly transforming medical institutions as we know them today.
We know that, at present, most national health structures – public and private – are made up of a set of disconnected systems (health plans, mutual health providers, hospital systems, pharmaceutical companies, medical device manufacturers, mobile care and resuscitation units, etc.). By 2030/2040, the person now called a patient is expected to become the center of the health model.
According to the latest study by the Deloitte Center for Health Solutions (2023): “interoperable, always-on data will foster closer collaboration between relevant players in the sector and traditional operators, and new entrants (disruptors) will offer new combinations of services. Interventions and treatments are likely to be more precise, less complex, less invasive and cheaper.
Health will be defined holistically as a general state of well-being that encompasses mental, social, emotional, physical and spiritual health.
In this way, people will not only have access to detailed information about their own health, but will own their health data and play a central role in decisions about their health and well-being.”
