Audio tour Current innovations

Many nice innovations for healthcare provide, comfort, increased quality and safety. Some innovations have been around for some time and other are just overcoming the hurdles of introduction. Nowadays a field of invisible innovations is hitting the market. Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, all of these technologies are in our daily lives, without most of us knowing they are. Wheater reports, route information, search suggestions, all of these examples are using these new technologies. And the concept is now also introduced in health care. Using big data analysis to determine the optimal treatment or giving advice on new medical literature for a patient you are seeing. The future brings many new healthcare improvements with these computer algorithms.

THE DIGITAL WAITING ROOM

 No more long trips to the hospital, but a quick video consult with your doctor. A specialist from Japan that gives live advice in the operating theater in Amsterdam. Getting a prescription for your medication when you run out, by a click on your smartphone. Planning a consultation with your GP on the web. These are just but a few of the many examples that demonstrate the usefulness of e-health. In the Netherlands all hospitals are forced by law to provide online insight in your personal health record. It’s regulation like this that will accelerate the adoption of e-health.