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3 Enabling a Multidisciplinary Approach to Health
Pages 17-24

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From page 17...
... Ann Aerts emphasized that there is a unique opportunity for public– private sector collaboration for digital health. Stakeholders in the private sector are developing strategies to advance the concepts of connected living and digital lifestyles.
From page 18...
... The workshop's second session, moderated by Aerts, focused on established multidisciplinary business models for digital health employed by technology and health care companies. The two panelists -- Jennifer Esposito from Intel Corporation and Darrell Johnson from Medtronic -- discussed multidisciplinary business models for digital health.
From page 19...
... Regarding how Intel decides to engage in a public–private partnership (PPP) , Esposito said that a prime consideration is whether such a partnership might provide an opportunity to understand the unique challenges for a specific issue and how its technology can solve those problems, saying, "We are doing it from the perspective of learning more about how we can take those unique challenges in a specific industry and drive solutions across the ecosystem with a variety of different types of partners." The other reason to get involved in such partnerships, she added, is when there are opportunities to harness untapped data in a way that brings new insights to health care and that can ultimately change the way health care practitioners do their jobs.
From page 20...
... "How that data can contribute to an overall improvement in public health is interesting to think about in terms of government involvement for broader societal gain." She noted that there has been more interest in LMICs about developing a universal data platform that would cut across all social programs, in part because there is often no legacy infrastructure that can get in the way of data sharing. In response to a question about how to use big data to help reduce waste in health care systems, Johnson said one key will be to use data to make costs and outcomes transparent, enabling policy makers to address problems in ways that are specific to the location and circumstances.
From page 21...
... Johnson replied that there are large companies working on this issue using blockchain technology to create an open market to exchange private health care information, something that he predicts will revolutionize the medical information industry. With regard to data transparency, Labrique asked the panelists what they see as the path of "fighting back against decades of dysfunction and the status quo of hiding things in the obscurity of having no data?
From page 22...
... This situation, said Aerts, calls for innovation in the way health care and prevention are delivered and for bringing together multiple disciplines to address the enormity of the challenges in global health. As an example, the underlying causes of cardiovascular disease include exercise level, smoking, food habits, alcohol consumption, and exposure to air pollution.
From page 23...
... Another line of action this group decided on was how to involve the transport sector in helping rural and underserved areas access health care by developing mobile health units for delivering emergent and nonemergent care. The IT sector would play a role with technologies for matching health needs with available transportation options.
From page 24...
... This sector should also adopt a different perspective on return on investments and explore ways of using mobile money as an incentive for adopting and scaling digital health initiatives. With regard to how to translate these suggestions into action, this group decided that the health care sector should prioritize the key issues that it needs to address and work to harness big data to reduce inefficiencies in care while the digital sector should work to standardize data collection systems and use those data to model health outcomes.


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