[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":332},["ShallowReactive",2],{"slug-reverse-innovations-in-healthcare":3},{"post":4,"relatedPosts":188,"relatedBooks":331},{"id":5,"date":6,"date_gmt":7,"guid":8,"modified":10,"modified_gmt":11,"slug":12,"status":13,"type":14,"link":15,"title":16,"content":18,"excerpt":21,"author":23,"featured_media":24,"comment_status":25,"ping_status":25,"sticky":26,"template":27,"format":28,"meta":29,"categories":30,"tags":34,"project_category":53,"contact_email_category":54,"yst_prominent_words":55,"class_list":64,"better_featured_image":92,"acf":124,"yoast_meta":133,"_links":135},23372,"2019-03-19T16:33:29","2019-03-19T14:33:29",{"rendered":9},"https:\u002F\u002Fmedicalfuturist.com\u002F?post_id=23372&_wpnonce=780b52745f&status=auto-draft&type=post","2023-02-10T11:09:23","2023-02-10T10:09:23","reverse-innovations-in-healthcare","publish","post","https:\u002F\u002Fmedicalfuturist.com\u002Freverse-innovations-in-healthcare",{"rendered":17},"Reverse Innovation: When Disruptive Health Solutions Go West",{"rendered":19,"protected":20},"\n\u003Ctable style=\"width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; background-color: #eee; border-top: 4px solid #444;\" cellpadding=\"5px\">\n\u003Ctbody>\n\u003Ctr>\n\u003Ctd style=\"width: 100%;\">\n\u003Cp style=\"color: #555;font-size: 12px;line-height: 14px\">THIS ARTICLE HAS NOT BEEN UPDATED SINCE 2019. THE INFORMATION SHARED IN THE ARTICLE WAS ACCURATE AT THE TIME OF ITS PUBLICATION, BUT IT MAY BE OUT OF DATE NOW. \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fmedicalfuturist.com\u002Fmagazine\">BROWSE OUR LATEST ARTICLES HERE\u003C\u002Fa>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003C\u002Ftd> \u003C\u002Ftr>\u003C\u002Ftbody>\u003C\u002Ftable>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Zipline drones populate the Rwandan skyline, portable\nelectrocardiogram machines help doctors diagnose in clinics in rural India, easy\ntesting lets cure children in Botswana. Beyond being brilliant medical\ninnovations, at some point, all these technologies were brought to or should be\napplied to high-income countries after their success in their original settings\nin Africa or Asia – as they have been available for\na fraction of the cost, they have represented a highly creative solution\nand\u002For the regulatory environment has allowed them to thrive. That’s what\nresearchers call reverse innovation, and\nwe tracked down the most prominent examples in digital health.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003Cstrong>Necessity is the mother of (disruptive) invention\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>The idea of reverse innovation or as others called it “trickle-up innovation” and “innovation blowback” is connected to \u003Ca href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fclaytonchristensen.com\u002Fkey-concepts\u002F\">Clayton Christensen’s famous model of “disruptive innovation”\u003C\u002Fa>. This encompasses a process by which a product or service takes root initially in simple applications at the bottom of a market and then relentlessly moves up, eventually displacing established competitors. Reverse innovation twists the term and challenges the existing and hidden narrative in disruptive innovation whereby it is assumed that high-income countries ought to be the sole driving force for innovation. Although the name itself could still be refined as calling it “reverse” already assumes that it counters a more “natural” idea about the direction of innovation. \u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Anyhow, \u003Cstrong>the\nexpression basically means \u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003Cstrong>\u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.newyorker.com\u002Fscience\u002Felements\u002Freverse-innovation-could-save-lives-why-isnt-western-medicine-embracing-it\">taking an idea, technology or solution born out of\nresource constraints, tested out and adapted to conditions in developing\ncountries and then bringing it to wealthier ones\u003C\u002Fa>\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003Cstrong>.\nFor many, it’s one of the most promising avenues for improving performance and\nlowering health-care costs. On the other hand, it might also \u003Ca href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fjphe.amegroups.com\u002Farticle\u002Fview\u002F4979\u002Fhtml\">encourage environmentally sustainable solutions from\nthe start, a leap from underdeveloped to even futuristic technologies as well\nas the implementation of such solutions\u003C\u002Fa>\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003Cstrong> which were not able to go to\nmarket in high-income countries due to legal and regulatory barriers. \u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Digital health is the perfect ground for reverse innovation as it encourages inexpensive, easy-to-use, point-of-care ideas often developed by actors that high-income countries usually leave out of tech innovations: the patient and the doctor. They both know exactly what they need, and with a pinch of creativity in resource-strained settings – as we all know that necessity is the mother of invention – they could figure out solutions which can also be adapted to traditionally more resourceful communities.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cfigure class=\"wp-block-image\">\u003Cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"512\" height=\"238\" src=\"https:\u002F\u002F1712507217.rsc.cdn77.org\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2019\u002F03\u002FBrain-And-Creativity-512x238.jpg\" alt=\"reverse innovation\" class=\"wp-image-23373\" srcset=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2019\u002F03\u002FBrain-And-Creativity-512x238.jpg 512w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2019\u002F03\u002FBrain-And-Creativity-768x356.jpg 768w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2019\u002F03\u002FBrain-And-Creativity-1536x713.jpg 1536w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2019\u002F03\u002FBrain-And-Creativity.jpg 1940w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \u002F>\u003Cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Source: www.inc.com\u003C\u002Ffigcaption>\u003C\u002Ffigure>\n\n\n\n\u003Ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003Cstrong>Why are these innovative solutions not adopted in high-income\ncountries?\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Strikingly enough, high-income countries are usually not rushing to implement lower costs, truly disruptive innovations coming from countries of the global South – regardless of the countless benefits. They are often \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.thelancet.com\u002Fjournals\u002Flanglo\u002Farticle\u002FPIIS2214-109X(17)30324-8\u002Ffulltext\">criticized for yielding unreliable data from settings of vast health-care inequalities and less strict regulations\u003C\u002Fa>.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>In the US, \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.newyorker.com\u002Fscience\u002Felements\u002Freverse-innovation-could-save-lives-why-isnt-western-medicine-embracing-it\">The New Yorker finds that\u003C\u002Fa> several reasons exist why reverse innovation proves to be difficult. \u003Cstrong>First, the entrenched cultural bias: “how can we learn something from a place we are sending OUR expertise to? Secondly, there’s another culturally embedded preconception that leads people to believe that a solution in healthcare must be expensive to be good. It’s simple psychology. Would you give your mother the cheap or the expensive medication if you could afford both? The third argument reflects another cultural opposition, now stemming from the notion of (in)equality. \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.newyorker.com\u002Fscience\u002Felements\u002Freverse-innovation-could-save-lives-why-isnt-western-medicine-embracing-it\">If people bring technology from a low-income country to serve rural populations or other vulnerable groups in the US, wouldn’t they find it as another form of discrimination\u003C\u002Fa>?\u003C\u002Fstrong> As in, they cannot get the solution the upper social groups do, “only” a cheaper one? \u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>And finally and most importantly, \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.newyorker.com\u002Fscience\u002Felements\u002Freverse-innovation-could-save-lives-why-isnt-western-medicine-embracing-it\">Ashish Jha, the director of the Harvard Global Health Institute, argues for The New Yorker\u003C\u002Fa> that the U.S. health-care system is highly uncompetitive. If someone comes up with a “nice and cheap way of doing something, most hospitals are going to be skeptical. Why would they want something cheap if it’s going to lower their reimbursement?” \u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Now, that’s a system, and those are the biases that need to be changed. Disruptive innovation that is able to provide a cheap solution for a health problem for millions of people should be accepted no matter where it comes from. Even more impressive if brilliant minds without the resources of high-income countries and with the struggles of low-income countries come up with the right technological innovations. That should be embraced, celebrated and implemented as soon as possible. To encourage more and more solutions like these, we collected some excellent examples.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cfigure class=\"wp-block-image\">\u003Cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"512\" height=\"288\" src=\"https:\u002F\u002F1712507217.rsc.cdn77.org\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2019\u002F03\u002FReverse-Innovation_McKinsey-512x288.jpg\" alt=\"reverse innovation\" class=\"wp-image-23374\" srcset=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2019\u002F03\u002FReverse-Innovation_McKinsey-512x288.jpg 512w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2019\u002F03\u002FReverse-Innovation_McKinsey-370x208.jpg 370w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2019\u002F03\u002FReverse-Innovation_McKinsey-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2019\u002F03\u002FReverse-Innovation_McKinsey.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \u002F>\u003Cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Source: www.mckinsey.com\u003C\u002Ffigcaption>\u003C\u002Ffigure>\n\n\n\n\u003Ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Great examples of reverse innovation\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\n\n\n\u003Ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003Cstrong>1) Medical drones from Rwanda to the US\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>In\n2016, \u003Ca href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fmoney.cnn.com\u002F2016\u002F10\u002F13\u002Ftechnology\u002Frwanda-drone-hospital\u002F\">the\nRwandan government teamed up with Zipline, a medical drone manufacturing\ncompany\u003C\u002Fa> to deliver medical supplies to five of its hospitals. \u003Cstrong>The American\nstart-up appeared earlier on the African market than in the US – as the\ngovernment supported it and looser regulations allowed it. Within a\nyear, Zipline planned to expand the program to nearly half of Rwanda’s 45\nhospitals. \u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>\u003Cstrong>After its Rwandan success, \u003Ca href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.theverge.com\u002F2016\u002F8\u002F2\u002F12350274\u002Fzipline-drone-delivery-us-launch-blood-medicine\">the\nWhite House reached out to Zipline\u003C\u002Fa>. They expressed interest in delivering\nmedicine and blood to rural parts of the US.\u003C\u002Fstrong> Thus, the\nstart-up announced in August 2017 that it brings its system to rural and remote communities in Maryland,\nNevada, and Washington, including some Native American reservations. \u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>As proof of the company’s growth, in January 2019, Zipline broke ground on their first two distribution centers in Ghana, a West African democracy of 29 million people. In the first half of this year, they will begin providing most of the country with access to all medical products, with four distribution centers spanning from the dense southern regions surrounding Ghana’s capital, Accra, to the remote and arid north of the country.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cfigure class=\"wp-block-image\">\u003Cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"512\" height=\"288\" src=\"https:\u002F\u002F1712507217.rsc.cdn77.org\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2018\u002F05\u002Fmedical-drones-512x288.jpg\" alt=\"reverse innovation\" class=\"wp-image-17870\" srcset=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2018\u002F05\u002Fmedical-drones-512x288.jpg 512w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2018\u002F05\u002Fmedical-drones-370x208.jpg 370w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2018\u002F05\u002Fmedical-drones-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2018\u002F05\u002Fmedical-drones-444x250.jpg 444w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2018\u002F05\u002Fmedical-drones.jpg 870w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \u002F>\u003Cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Source: www.zipline.com\u003C\u002Ffigcaption>\u003C\u002Ffigure>\n\n\n\n\u003Ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003Cstrong>2) Portable ECG machine for rural India\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>When US-headquartered multinational company, GE, \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fadage.com\u002Farticle\u002Fglobal-news\u002Fp-g-levi-s-ge-innovate-thinking-reverse\u002F228146\u002F\">started to sell the same medical-diagnostic devices in\nIndia, they quickly realized that adaptation to the local settings means an\nentirely new approach\u003C\u002Fa>\nto technological development. \u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Soon after that, \u003Cstrong>GE Healthcare debuted its \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.wired.co.uk\u002Farticle\u002Fcant-afford-medical-devices\">ultra-portable, battery-operated electrocardiogram machine\u003C\u002Fa> specially designed for use in rural clinics in India – where mains electricity is either intermittent or non-existent. They sold that for $500. Intended as a solution for rural Indian markets where bulky, $20,000 machines made little sense, the product is now making inroads in the U.S. as a solution for first responders\u003C\u002Fstrong>.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cfigure class=\"wp-block-image\">\u003Cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"512\" height=\"256\" src=\"https:\u002F\u002F1712507217.rsc.cdn77.org\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2019\u002F03\u002FGE_portable-ECG-machine-512x256.jpg\" alt=\"reverse innovation\" class=\"wp-image-23375\" srcset=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2019\u002F03\u002FGE_portable-ECG-machine-512x256.jpg 512w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2019\u002F03\u002FGE_portable-ECG-machine-768x384.jpg 768w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2019\u002F03\u002FGE_portable-ECG-machine.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \u002F>\u003Cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Source: www.bloomberg.com\u003C\u002Ffigcaption>\u003C\u002Ffigure>\n\n\n\n\u003Ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003Cstrong>3) Kenyan telemedical kiosks for remote diagnosis\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>While\nU.S. patients \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.designnews.com\u002Fautomation-motion-control\u002Ftelemedicine-brings-low-cost-medical-care-africa\u002F73424154243116\">rarely\nget a test that doesn’t cost $200, product developers who target Africa’s\nunderprivileged population are creating complete systems that cost less than\n$200\u003C\u002Fa>. \u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>The Mashavu Project is bringing telemedicine to Kenya and Tanzania by tapping the creativity and social activism of college students while keeping equipment costs down. A team at Penn State University back in the US developed some inexpensive medical devices for the Mashavu Project, whose name comes from the Swahili word for chubby-cheeked, which generally translates into good health in many places. \u003Cstrong>So-called Mashavu kiosks close the physical distance between healthcare providers and members of remote communities. Villagers visit Mashavu to determine if their problem warrants a lengthy and expensive commute to a health facility – or could be solved more simply at home\u003C\u002Fstrong>. Such solutions were more than welcome also in rural communities all around the global North – from the Canadian Inuit communities until the German villages. \u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cfigure class=\"wp-block-image\">\u003Cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"512\" height=\"209\" src=\"https:\u002F\u002F1712507217.rsc.cdn77.org\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2019\u002F03\u002FKenya-Mashavu-Project-512x209.jpg\" alt=\"reverse innovation\" class=\"wp-image-23378\" srcset=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2019\u002F03\u002FKenya-Mashavu-Project-512x209.jpg 512w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2019\u002F03\u002FKenya-Mashavu-Project.jpg 675w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \u002F>\u003Cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Source: www.forbes.com\u003C\u002Ffigcaption>\u003C\u002Ffigure>\n\n\n\n\u003Ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003Cstrong>4) Off-road wheelchair manufactured in India\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Amos Winter, an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT and the Director of the \u003Ca href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fgear.mit.edu\u002F\">Global Engineering and Research (GEAR) Lab\u003C\u002Fa>, which creates technological solutions for emerging markets and developing countries, spent six years designing an off-road wheelchair for people in developing countries. \u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>It is called \u003Cstrong>the \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fhbr.org\u002F2015\u002F07\u002Fengineering-reverse-innovations\">Leveraged Freedom Chair (LFC), manufactured in India and 80 percent faster and 40 percent more efficient to propel than a conventional wheelchair, while selling for approximately $250\u003C\u002Fa> – on par with other developing world wheelchairs. After its overwhelming success, the technologies that generate its high performance and low cost have been incorporated into a Western version\u003C\u002Fstrong>, the GRIT Freedom Chair, which was modified with consumer feedback and sells in the United States for $3,295—less than half the price of competing products.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cfigure class=\"wp-block-image\">\u003Cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"512\" height=\"384\" src=\"https:\u002F\u002F1712507217.rsc.cdn77.org\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2019\u002F03\u002FOff-Road-Wheelchair-512x384.jpg\" alt=\"reverse innovation\" class=\"wp-image-23379\" srcset=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2019\u002F03\u002FOff-Road-Wheelchair-512x384.jpg 512w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2019\u002F03\u002FOff-Road-Wheelchair-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2019\u002F03\u002FOff-Road-Wheelchair.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \u002F>\u003Cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Source: www.zdnet.com\u003C\u002Ffigcaption>\u003C\u002Ffigure>\n\n\n\n\u003Ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003Cstrong>5) Treating babies with jaundice effectively\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Some experts at Stanford University School of Medicine and D-Rev estimate that every year, over 6 million babies with severe jaundice are not receiving adequate treatment. In studies of medical facilities in India and Nigeria, D-Rev and Stanford found that 95% of devices evaluated in low-income hospitals and clinics did not meet American Academy of Pediatrics standards for intensive phototherapy. Maintenance was a key limitation in the delivery of treatment: approximately 1 in 3 phototherapy devices had at least one bulb burned out or missing. Compact fluorescent bulbs, commonly used in phototherapy devices, cost roughly $15 per bulb to replace and last four months. Many hospitals have trouble sourcing these bulbs and, with devices using an average of six bulbs each, they just can’t afford to replace them as needed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>\u003Cstrong>D-Rev has designed and produced an excellent instrument which can solve the problem. With its medical device called Brilliance, hospitals can save over $240 per year on costly bulb replacements. Also, Brilliance can withstand a wide range of power fluctuations without changes in device performance. The company estimates that with its help, 124,800 babies with jaundice were treated who would not otherwise have received adequate treatment. A lot of rural hospitals and medical facilities with strained budgets in the global North could learn from the experiences of these care facilities\u003C\u002Fstrong> – and save significant amounts of money in such a simple way.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cfigure class=\"wp-block-image\">\u003Cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"512\" height=\"342\" src=\"https:\u002F\u002F1712507217.rsc.cdn77.org\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2019\u002F03\u002FD-Rev-Lightbulbs-512x342.jpeg\" alt=\"reverse innovation\" class=\"wp-image-23380\" srcset=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2019\u002F03\u002FD-Rev-Lightbulbs-512x342.jpeg 512w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2019\u002F03\u002FD-Rev-Lightbulbs-768x513.jpeg 768w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2019\u002F03\u002FD-Rev-Lightbulbs-1536x1025.jpeg 1536w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2019\u002F03\u002FD-Rev-Lightbulbs.jpeg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \u002F>\u003Cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Source: www.medium.com\u003C\u002Ffigcaption>\u003C\u002Ffigure>\n\n\n\n\u003Ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003Cstrong>6) Testing children for diarrhea in Botswana applicable to Canada\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>In Botswana, delays in diagnosing the cause of\nchildhood diarrhea can amount to the difference between life and death. Some\nchildren die before a stool sample is collected and tested, \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fnationalpost.com\u002Fnews\u002Fcanada\u002Fthird-world-lessons-in-healthcare-how-reverse-innovation-could-revolutionize-canadas-medical-landscape\">says David Goldfarb, a pediatrician who teaches at\nMcMaster University and the University of Botswana to the National Post\u003C\u002Fa>. Using funding from Grand Challenges Canada, \u003Cstrong>he designed a technology to speed up tests\nin Botswana that can also be used in the most remote corner of Canada, the\nNunavut region, which has a very low population density.\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>\u003Cstrong>\u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fnationalpost.com\u002Fnews\u002Fcanada\u002Fthird-world-lessons-in-healthcare-how-reverse-innovation-could-revolutionize-canadas-medical-landscape\">Dr. Goldfarb’s solution\u003C\u002Fa>, which costs as little as 25 cents, involves a swab covered with absorbent fibers and eliminates the delays in collecting a child’s stool sample\u003C\u002Fstrong>. It also comes with a transportation tube that’s less prone to contamination than conventional transportation methods. Since stool samples from Nunavut are often contaminated by the time they arrive in labs hundreds of kilometers away, the swab could not only improve our understanding of the causes of childhood diarrhea in Botswana but also high up North.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cfigure class=\"wp-block-image\">\u003Cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"512\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\u002F\u002F1712507217.rsc.cdn77.org\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2019\u002F03\u002FDiarrhea-Treatment-for-Children-512x340.jpg\" alt=\"reverse innovation\" class=\"wp-image-23381\" srcset=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2019\u002F03\u002FDiarrhea-Treatment-for-Children-512x340.jpg 512w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2019\u002F03\u002FDiarrhea-Treatment-for-Children-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2019\u002F03\u002FDiarrhea-Treatment-for-Children.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \u002F>\u003Cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Source: www.thestar.com\u003C\u002Ffigcaption>\u003C\u002Ffigure>\n\n\n\n\u003Ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003Cstrong>7) Indian eye care system on the lead\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>India’s \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.aravind.org\u002F\">Aravind Eye Care System\u003C\u002Fa>, which performs over 350 000 ophthalmic procedures each year at multiple sites, \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.thelancet.com\u002Fjournals\u002Flanglo\u002Farticle\u002FPIIS2214-109X(17)30324-8\u002Ffulltext\">has better patient outcomes at a lower cost per person than anywhere else in the world\u003C\u002Fa>. \u003Cstrong>The institution applied standardized checklist processes – modeled based on McDonald’s, which resulted in remarkable operation efficiency across all its rural and urban sites.\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>\u003Cstrong>One of the key characteristics of the system is task shifting, where routine responsibilities ranging from clerking admissions to preoperative and postoperative assessments are transferred from doctors to less skilled, yet well-trained, staff\u003C\u002Fstrong>. A common complaint from western clinicians is that too much of their time is spent on non-clinical and repetitive functions, which means that the Indian model would highly improve the satisfaction and productivity of clinicians – \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fmedicalfuturist.com\u002Fphysician-burnout\">reducing the widespread burnout phenomenon\u003C\u002Fa>.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cfigure class=\"wp-block-image\">\u003Cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\u002F\u002F1712507217.rsc.cdn77.org\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2019\u002F03\u002FAravint-Eye-Care-System-512x341.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-23382\"\u002F>\u003Cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">February 26, 2011: Preliminary exam at Kallupatti camp outside of Madurai Photo ©  2011 Willie Davis \u003C\u002Ffigcaption>\u003C\u002Ffigure>\n\n\n\n\u003Ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003Cstrong>Burkina Faso’s district health information system to be adopted in Europe?\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>\u003Ca href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fjphe.amegroups.com\u002Farticle\u002Fview\u002F4979\u002Fhtml\">Another study dealing with reverse innovations and\npotential examples to learn from for European, American or other high-income\ncountries\u003C\u002Fa>, cites Burkina\nFaso and its health information system as a best practice to follow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>In the small African country, \u003Cstrong>the ‘\u003Ca href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.dhis2.org\">district health information system\u003C\u002Fa>’ is an advanced centralized digital patient information system, which has unified the health system across the entire country. European patient information systems are often far from unified and electronically available; adoption of such systems would provide considerable savings and improve health care provision and health status\u003C\u002Fstrong>.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cfigure class=\"wp-block-image\">\u003Cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"512\" height=\"341\" src=\"https:\u002F\u002F1712507217.rsc.cdn77.org\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2019\u002F03\u002FBurkina-Faso-Health-System-512x341.jpg\" alt=\"reverse innovation\" class=\"wp-image-23383\" srcset=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2019\u002F03\u002FBurkina-Faso-Health-System-512x341.jpg 512w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2019\u002F03\u002FBurkina-Faso-Health-System-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2019\u002F03\u002FBurkina-Faso-Health-System.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \u002F>\u003Cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Source: www.help-ev.de\u003C\u002Ffigcaption>\u003C\u002Ffigure>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Looking at all these genuinely disruptive innovations, the only thing we wish for is more and more solutions coming from countries and regions traditionally not regarded as innovation hubs. We \u003Cstrong>encourage healthcare players to organize more and more meetups and hackathons enabling co-creation among key stakeholders including healthcare professionals, end-users, scientists, engineers, and entrepreneurs – mixing low-income regions with high-income expertise and vice versa.\u003C\u002Fstrong> So that real disruption could take place, and millions more could reap the benefits of cheaper and more accessible healthcare.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Ctable style=\"width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; background-color: #eee; border-top: 4px solid #444;\" cellpadding=\"10px\">\n\u003Ctbody>\n\u003Ctr>\n\u003Ctd style=\"width: 100%;\">\n\u003Cp>\u003Cstrong>At The Medical Futurist, we are building a community for making a bold vision about the future of healthcare reality today.\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Ciframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.youtube.com\u002Fembed\u002FFIbMejImnxs\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\">\u003C\u002Fiframe>\n\u003Cp>If you’d like to support this mission, we invite you to \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.patreon.com\u002Fthemedicalfuturist\">join The Medical Futurist Patreon Community\u003C\u002Fa>. A community of empowered patients, future-oriented healthcare professionals, concerned health policymakers, sensible health tech developers, and enthusiastic medical students. If there were ever a time to join us, it is now. Every contribution, however big or small, powers our research and sustains our future.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.patreon.com\u002Fthemedicalfuturist\">\u003Cstrong style=\"background-color: #e71d3299; color: #000;\">Click here to support The Medical Futurist from as little as $3\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fa> – it only takes a minute. Thank you.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003C\u002Ftr>\n\u003C\u002Ftbody>\n\u003C\u002Ftable>\n\u003Cp> \u003C\u002Fp>\n",false,{"rendered":22,"protected":20},"\u003Cp>Zipline drones populate the Rwandan skyline, portable electrocardiogram machines help doctors diagnose in clinics in rural India, easy testing lets cure children in Botswana. 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Top Telemedicine Solutions Bringing Patients and Doctors Closer To Each Other",{"rendered":201,"protected":20},"\n\u003Ctable style=\"width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; background-color: #eee; border-top: 4px solid #444;\" cellpadding=\"5px\">\n\u003Ctbody>\n\u003Ctr>\n\u003Ctd style=\"width: 100%;\">\n\u003Cp style=\"color: #555;font-size: 12px;line-height: 14px\">THIS ARTICLE HAS NOT BEEN UPDATED SINCE 2017. THE INFORMATION SHARED IN THE ARTICLE WAS ACCURATE AT THE TIME OF ITS PUBLICATION, BUT IT MAY BE OUT OF DATE NOW. \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fmedicalfuturist.com\u002Fmagazine\">BROWSE OUR LATEST ARTICLES HERE\u003C\u002Fa>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003C\u002Ftr>\u003C\u002Ftbody>\u003C\u002Ftable>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Telemedicine solutions fulfil a natural demand in the digital age: how to bring patients and doctors closer to each other without the need to lose long hours through traveling, but gain all the benefits of healthcare. Telemedicine should become such an integral part of the healthcare system in the future that it would not be labeled as “telemedicine” anymore but just another ordinary way to talk to peers or patients. Until that happens, let’s see the top telemedicine solutions out there.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003C!--more-->\n\n\n\n\u003Ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003Cstrong>The “teledactyl” wanted to feel patients at a distance\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Telemedicine is usually depicted as a new technology that needs to be pushed into the everyday delivery of healthcare even if it is difficult to underscore its importance and support its effectiveness. I aim to prove that this is a wrong approach.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>First, telemedicine is not something coming out of the blue, the demand for it existed way before its advancement. At the dawn of the radio age, in 1925, \u003Ca href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.smithsonianmag.com\u002Fhistory\u002Ftelemedicine-predicted-in-1925-124140942\u002F?no-ist\">Hugo Gernsback, a never-resting German technologist invented the concept of the “teledactyl”\u003C\u002Fa> that would allow doctors to not only see their patients through a viewscreen but also touch them from miles away with spindly robot arms. As Gernsback explained it, the device would have made it possible to “feel at a distance”. He basically described the function and aim of telemedicine – going a “tiny bit” further than technology would allow it today.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>But the need for healing from a distance was already there (more than) a century ago. Patients who could or would not want to go into cities or doctors who yearned for consulting a specialist colleague, they all wished for something to make their lives easier. That something is telemedicine.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cdiv class=\"wp-block-image\">\u003Cfigure class=\"aligncenter\">\u003Cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"537\" src=\"https:\u002F\u002F1712507217.rsc.cdn77.org\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2017\u002F08\u002F1925-feb-science-and-invention-sm-cover.jpg\" alt=\"top telemedicine solutions\" class=\"wp-image-16190\" srcset=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2017\u002F08\u002F1925-feb-science-and-invention-sm-cover.jpg 550w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2017\u002F08\u002F1925-feb-science-and-invention-sm-cover-512x500.jpg 512w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2017\u002F08\u002F1925-feb-science-and-invention-sm-cover-256x250.jpg 256w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \u002F>\u003C\u002Ffigure>\u003C\u002Fdiv>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003Cstrong>Telemedicine belongs to the core of practicing medicine\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Second, the essence of practicing medicine has been obtaining as much data about the patient’s health or disease as possible and making decisions based on that. Physicians have had to rely on their experience, judgment, and problem-solving skills while using rudimentary tools and limited resources for centuries.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\u003Cp>\u003Ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"One Minute Challenge: Telemedicine - The Medical Futurist\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.youtube.com\u002Fembed\u002FdQ-rjGz15yM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen>\u003C\u002Fiframe>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>One of the key components in medical knowledge and skill transfer has always been peer-to-peer communication. Physicians discuss, publish, consult, debate, share and suggest treatment options, opportunities and new developments to each other. When they face an unprecedented issue or a hard decision to make, they can consult colleagues at the same institutions or make phone calls; maybe share experience in a medical event. Lately, they have had the chance to do the same through online channels too, from instant messaging to social media. And now, they also have telemedicine to remotely consult with peers and specialists.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>But when you look at articles and papers about how telemedicine is used in care, you easily get the impression that people look at it as one of the fancy technologies the Internet era brought upon us. They are all wrong. Telemedicine belongs to the core of practicing medicine.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cfigure class=\"wp-block-image alignnone wp-image-16191\">\u003Cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"592\" height=\"444\" src=\"https:\u002F\u002F1712507217.rsc.cdn77.org\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2017\u002F08\u002Fjoyce-hesselberth.jpg\" alt=\"Top Telemedicine Solutions\" class=\"wp-image-16191\" srcset=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2017\u002F08\u002Fjoyce-hesselberth.jpg 592w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2017\u002F08\u002Fjoyce-hesselberth-512x384.jpg 512w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2017\u002F08\u002Fjoyce-hesselberth-333x250.jpg 333w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 592px) 100vw, 592px\" \u002F>\u003Cfigcaption>\u003Cem>Illustration by Joyce Hesselberth\u003C\u002Fem>\u003C\u002Ffigcaption>\u003C\u002Ffigure>\n\n\n\n\u003Ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003Cstrong>Physical presence should not be overvalued in the digital age\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Third, the medical community still overvalues physical presence. And those who do diagnostics never meeting patients are considered rude outsiders. But as \u003Ca href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.huffingtonpost.com\u002Fentry\u002Fare-healthcare-systems-about-to-be-amazoned-telemedicine_us_590f5cffe4b056aa2363d62d?ncid=engmodushpmg00000004\">Bruce Judson explained it in The Huffington Post\u003C\u002Fa>, \u003Cem>the single most important lesson of the past two decades is that a physical presence is, ultimately, a weak barrier to virtual competition\u003C\u002Fem>\u003Cem>. \u003C\u002Fem>So, it is not worth looking at telemedicine as something one-off and fancy, but as an element of the trends towards the future.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>We cannot expect every patient to travel and leave from work for minor or even bigger health problems in the digital age when they manage huge chunks of their daily lives digitally. We cannot expect physicians to know everything that is available in peer-reviewed papers (over 27 million of them), especially when we already use algorithms to scan through waste amounts of data. Moreover, we cannot expect doctors to visit every patient, especially if you look at the data about the shortage of medical professionals. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that there is a worldwide shortage of around 4.3 million physicians, nurses, and allied health workers. At the same time, the need for health care services is rising: illnesses are becoming easier to catch, civilizational diseases such as diabetes and obesity is on the rise while aging societies need more and more care.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cfigure class=\"wp-block-image\">\u003Cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"870\" height=\"435\" src=\"https:\u002F\u002F1712507217.rsc.cdn77.org\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2017\u002F08\u002Ftelemedicine_virtual-presence.jpg\" alt=\"Top Telemedicine Solutions\" class=\"wp-image-16192\" srcset=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2017\u002F08\u002Ftelemedicine_virtual-presence.jpg 870w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2017\u002F08\u002Ftelemedicine_virtual-presence-768x384.jpg 768w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2017\u002F08\u002Ftelemedicine_virtual-presence-512x256.jpg 512w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2017\u002F08\u002Ftelemedicine_virtual-presence-458x229.jpg 458w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 870px) 100vw, 870px\" \u002F>\u003C\u002Ffigure>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003Cstrong>The most disruptive telemedicine solutions\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>The answer to all those burning questions above: telemedicine. It offers a chance to get in touch, ask and receive responses for questions that need to be answered immediately. It offers a chance for people living in remote areas to still get proper care and only visit the GP if necessary. Telemedicine, through instant and digital communication, can also help balance out inequalities.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>As there are many brilliant telemedicine solutions already and the market is growing day-by-day, I decided to collect the most disruptive solutions which entirely underscore the above-described notions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Ch3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003Cstrong>1) \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.doctorondemand.com\u002F\">Doctor on Demand\u003C\u002Fa>\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fh3>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>San Francisco-based Doctor on Demand supported by Google offers access to more than a thousand board-certified physicians throughout the United States to more than a million registered users. According to \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwell.blogs.nytimes.com\u002F2015\u002F05\u002F05\u002Fan-uber-for-doctor-housecalls\u002F?_r=1\">The New York Times\u003C\u002Fa>, its app has been downloaded a few million times since it was introduced in late 2013. Doctor on Demand can treat 90 percent of the conditions most commonly seen in the ER and urgent care, dramatically lowering health care costs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>No matter whether you want to quit smoking, need some medical advice because your kid swallowed a toy animal or you suffer from diabetes – you can turn to Doctor on Demand services any time of the day with a maximum 5 minutes waiting time. Moreover, it offers entire health care plans for huge multinational companies and US citizens without health insurance can also use the service.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cfigure class=\"wp-block-image\">\u003Cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"870\" height=\"420\" src=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2017\u002F08\u002Fdoctor-on-demand.jpg\" alt=\" Doctor on Demand\" class=\"wp-image-16194\" srcset=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2017\u002F08\u002Fdoctor-on-demand.jpg 870w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2017\u002F08\u002Fdoctor-on-demand-768x371.jpg 768w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2017\u002F08\u002Fdoctor-on-demand-512x247.jpg 512w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2017\u002F08\u002Fdoctor-on-demand-458x221.jpg 458w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 870px) 100vw, 870px\" \u002F>\u003C\u002Ffigure>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Ch3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003Cstrong>2) \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.healthtap.com\u002F\">Health Tap\u003C\u002Fa>\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fh3>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Impressive numbers fascinate the visitors of the Health Tap website. Their telehealth service established in 2010 already answered 6.3 billion health-related queries, employs 108,000 medical professionals and saved 24,489 lives. They offer a special HealthTap SOS system that gives various first respondent organizations immediate access to physicians when a disaster happens somewhere in the world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>HealthTap also operates a health operating system for medical facilities worldwide, the so-called HOPESTM, which aims to simplify medical administration. Every patient gets one, unified Personal Health Record, where their entire medical history, their test results, and other relevant patient data is stored. Moreover, the company introduced its “Dr. AI” service, which aims to utilize HealthTap’s existing database for answering simpler medical questions and refer patients to the right level of care in case there is a more complex medical issue in question.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cfigure class=\"wp-block-image\">\u003Cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"870\" height=\"502\" src=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2017\u002F08\u002Fhealthtap.png\" alt=\"HealthTap - Top Telemedicine Solutions\" class=\"wp-image-16196\" srcset=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2017\u002F08\u002Fhealthtap.png 870w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2017\u002F08\u002Fhealthtap-768x443.png 768w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2017\u002F08\u002Fhealthtap-512x295.png 512w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2017\u002F08\u002Fhealthtap-433x250.png 433w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 870px) 100vw, 870px\" \u002F>\u003C\u002Ffigure>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Ch3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003Cstrong>3) \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.americanwell.com\u002F\">American Well\u003C\u002Fa>\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fh3>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>The Boston-based telemedicine company established in 2006 offers complete telehealth services to a wide range of customers. The mobile and web service connects doctors with patients for live, on-demand video visits over the internet and handles all the administration, security, and record keeping that modern healthcare requires.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>American Well’s mission is to improve access to quality care and make it more affordable and transparent for every actor in the healthcare field. The company has been cooperating with \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fmy.clevelandclinic.org\u002F\">Cleveland Clinic\u003C\u002Fa>, one of the top ranked hospitals regarding digital health solutions, as its telehealth network vendor \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.digitalcommerce360.com\u002F2017\u002F06\u002F07\u002Fcleveland-clinic-to-roll-out-major-new-telehealth-programs\u002F\">since September of 2014\u003C\u002Fa>.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cfigure class=\"wp-block-image\">\u003Cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"870\" height=\"468\" src=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2017\u002F08\u002Ftelehealth_american-well.jpg\" alt=\"American Well - Top Telemedicine Solutions\" class=\"wp-image-16197\" srcset=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2017\u002F08\u002Ftelehealth_american-well.jpg 870w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2017\u002F08\u002Ftelehealth_american-well-768x413.jpg 768w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2017\u002F08\u002Ftelehealth_american-well-512x275.jpg 512w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2017\u002F08\u002Ftelehealth_american-well-458x246.jpg 458w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 870px) 100vw, 870px\" \u002F>\u003C\u002Ffigure>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Ch3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003Cstrong>4) \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.teladoc.com\u002F\">Teladoc\u003C\u002Fa>\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fh3>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>The New York-based company was established in 2002 and it is the largest telehealth platform in the United States. Teladoc is a real success story: it was \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.technologyreview.com\u002Flists\u002Fcompanies\u002F2015\u002F\">listed\u003C\u002Fa> 27th on \u003Cem>MIT Technology Review\u003C\u002Fem>‘s list of the “50 Smartest Companies” in 2015. More than 17 million people used its services as members and more than 1.6 million visits were carried out. The professional network consists of more than 3,600 licensed healthcare professionals who have 20 years of experience on average.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Teladoc has approximately a 10-minute response time before patients are connected with a physician. Approximately \u003Ca href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.beckershospitalreview.com\u002Ftelehealth\u002F10-things-to-know-about-teladoc.html\">92 percent of patients that use Teladoc have their issues resolved\u003C\u002Fa>, which shows an efficient platform and effective medical professionals participating in it. We need more services like this!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cfigure class=\"wp-block-image\">\u003Cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"870\" height=\"552\" src=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2017\u002F08\u002Fteladoc_top-telemedicine-solutions.jpg\" alt=\"Teladoc - Top Telemedicine Solutions\" class=\"wp-image-16198\" srcset=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2017\u002F08\u002Fteladoc_top-telemedicine-solutions.jpg 870w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2017\u002F08\u002Fteladoc_top-telemedicine-solutions-768x487.jpg 768w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2017\u002F08\u002Fteladoc_top-telemedicine-solutions-512x325.jpg 512w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2017\u002F08\u002Fteladoc_top-telemedicine-solutions-394x250.jpg 394w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 870px) 100vw, 870px\" \u002F>\u003C\u002Ffigure>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Ch3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003Cstrong>5) \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.idoc24.com\u002F\">iDoc24\u003C\u002Fa>\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fh3>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>As you can easily detect if you have a skin problem, and smartphones coupled with super-fast internet connection make it easy to send pictures or footage anywhere, telemedicine solutions appeared naturally in dermatology. iDoc24 offers you to connect you to a dermatologist in under 24 hours who can give you advise you what to do with your skin problem.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>The start-up established in 2014 had already more than 7,000 cases submitted from all over the world from countries such as Sweden, Chile, China, Australia, and Ghana. Their youngest users have been 3 days old and the oldest 93 years old. I believe such dermatology solutions will thrive in the future, since as iDoc24 found 70 percent of all their reviewed cases could be self-treated and they advised the patient to undertake further tests in all the remaining 30 percent of cases. It is a win-win for everyone: patients do not have to wait in crowded waiting rooms for an exam, while dermatologists can deal with the easier cases in shorter time online.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cdiv class=\"wp-block-image\">\u003Cfigure class=\"aligncenter\">\u003Cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"526\" height=\"327\" src=\"https:\u002F\u002F1712507217.rsc.cdn77.org\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2017\u002F08\u002Fhandyscope.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16207\" srcset=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2017\u002F08\u002Fhandyscope.jpg 526w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2017\u002F08\u002Fhandyscope-512x318.jpg 512w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2017\u002F08\u002Fhandyscope-402x250.jpg 402w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 526px) 100vw, 526px\" \u002F>\u003C\u002Ffigure>\u003C\u002Fdiv>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Ch3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003Cstrong>6) \u003Ca href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fangels.uams.edu\u002F\">ANGELS\u003C\u002Fa>\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fh3>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>According to the Arkansas Department of Health, 73 of the 75 counties in the US state are designated as medically underserved. \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.ruralhealthinfo.org\u002Fcommunity-health\u002Fproject-examples\u002F681\">Rural Health Info outlined that\u003C\u002Fa> women in rural areas had difficulties accessing prenatal care, which in many cases resulted in high-risk pregnancies and low birth-weight babies. As a response, the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences created the ANGELS telemedicine program.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>The word ANGELS stems from the abbreviation of Antenatal and Neonatal Guidelines, Education and Learning Systems, which is a consultative service to ensure that every woman in Arkansas at risk of having a complicated pregnancy receives the best possible care. ANGELS operate with evidence-based care guidelines, research, health care education and a 24\u002F7 call center. It is a great initiative to ensure the health and safety of mothers and their unborn children. I hope for more similar telemedicine solutions to come!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cfigure class=\"wp-block-image\">\u003Cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"870\" height=\"653\" src=\"https:\u002F\u002F1712507217.rsc.cdn77.org\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2017\u002F08\u002Fangels-babycare.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16200\" srcset=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2017\u002F08\u002Fangels-babycare.jpg 870w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2017\u002F08\u002Fangels-babycare-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2017\u002F08\u002Fangels-babycare-512x384.jpg 512w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2017\u002F08\u002Fangels-babycare-333x250.jpg 333w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 870px) 100vw, 870px\" \u002F>\u003C\u002Ffigure>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Ch3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003Cstrong>7) Avizia\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fh3>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>The four-years-old telehealth company offers a video chat system to ease access to doctors and patients. In 2015, The Wall Street Journal wrote that Avizia differentiates itself by offering hardware, software, and services to hospitals rather than consumers. Moreover, the same year, the company raised a $4 million bridge funding and acquired a software start-up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Avizia’s telemedicine solutions are supported by Cisco technology, and they include telemedicine devices, workflow management software, even digital stethoscopes, and examination cameras. Whether medical professionals are performing remote medical consultations or teaching a new procedure, \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.fastcompany.com\u002F3048219\u002Fbuilding-a-better-doctors-visit-through-telemedicine\">Avizia makes the experience feel as if everyone is present\u003C\u002Fa>. Almost as if the “teledactyl” would have come to life.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cfigure class=\"wp-block-image\">\u003Cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"870\" height=\"489\" src=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2017\u002F08\u002Favizia.jpg\" alt=\"Avizia - Top telemedicine solutions\" class=\"wp-image-16202\" srcset=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2017\u002F08\u002Favizia.jpg 870w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2017\u002F08\u002Favizia-370x208.jpg 370w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2017\u002F08\u002Favizia-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2017\u002F08\u002Favizia-512x288.jpg 512w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2017\u002F08\u002Favizia-444x250.jpg 444w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 870px) 100vw, 870px\" \u002F>\u003C\u002Ffigure>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Ch3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003Cstrong>8) \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.babylonhealth.com\u002F\">Babylon Health\u003C\u002Fa>\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fh3>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>The British subscription, online medical consultation and health service, Babylon Health, founded in 2013, offers medical AI consultation based on personal medical history and common medical knowledge as well as live video consultation with a real doctor whenever a patient needs it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>In the first case, \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.technologyreview.com\u002Fs\u002F600868\u002Fthe-artificially-intelligent-doctor-will-hear-you-now\u002F\">users report the symptoms of their illness to the app\u003C\u002Fa>, which checks them against a database of diseases using speech recognition, and then offers an appropriate course of action. In the second case, doctors listen and look carefully to diagnose the patient and then write prescriptions or refer to a specialist if required.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cfigure class=\"wp-block-image\">\u003Cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"870\" height=\"490\" src=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2017\u002F08\u002Fbabylon-health.jpg\" alt=\"Babylon Health - Top Telemedicine Solutions\" class=\"wp-image-16203\" srcset=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2017\u002F08\u002Fbabylon-health.jpg 870w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2017\u002F08\u002Fbabylon-health-370x208.jpg 370w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2017\u002F08\u002Fbabylon-health-768x433.jpg 768w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2017\u002F08\u002Fbabylon-health-512x288.jpg 512w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2017\u002F08\u002Fbabylon-health-443x250.jpg 443w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 870px) 100vw, 870px\" \u002F>\u003C\u002Ffigure>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Ch3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003Cstrong>9) \u003Ca href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.intouchhealth.com\u002F\">InTouch Health\u003C\u002Fa>\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fh3>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>The California-based company is growing exponentially: InTouch Telehealth Network supports more than 130,000 annual encounters, 11,000 medical professionals, and 1,250 patient access locations with an annualized growth rate of 25% or one hospital per day.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Through its waste network, patients in remote areas or people not being able to travel have access to high-quality emergency consultations for stroke, cardiovascular, or other medical services exactly when they need it. Moreover, with telehealth, medical professionals in rural towns and remote areas also have access to specialty services, while patients can be treated in their own communities. Ole Eichhorn, InTouch Health’s CTO told me that they have a physician group using their technology who serve Inuit populations living in the Arctic. Many of these people live in cities which are completely inaccessible except via dog sleds and seaplanes landing on ice. Bringing emergency medical expertise to these communities via telemedicine solutions has been live-changing, and without exception they have embraced it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cfigure class=\"wp-block-image\">\u003Cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"870\" height=\"659\" src=\"https:\u002F\u002F1712507217.rsc.cdn77.org\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2017\u002F08\u002Fintouch-health.png\" alt=\"InTouch Health\" class=\"wp-image-16431\" srcset=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2017\u002F08\u002Fintouch-health.png 870w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2017\u002F08\u002Fintouch-health-768x582.png 768w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2017\u002F08\u002Fintouch-health-512x388.png 512w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2017\u002F08\u002Fintouch-health-330x250.png 330w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 870px) 100vw, 870px\" \u002F>\u003C\u002Ffigure>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Considering doctor shortages, huge distances between patients and caregivers as well as packed schedules of medical professionals and the average person, telemedicine seems to be the natural solution in the digital age. As a rule of thumb, there is no difference between digital and real-life communication concerning the methods, risks, and advantages. 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Telemedicine should become such an integral part of the healthcare system in the future that it would not be labeled as “telemedicine” anymore but just another ordinary way to talk to peers or patients. 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