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Vladimir Samoilo: “Doctors do not know what IT is, and IT specialists do not know what medicine is”
Today, artificial intelligence predicts the possibility of the development of cancer, and doctors prescribe digital medicines that the patient is accepted by the patient's tablets or not.
About how modern medical technologies are developing, Ksenia Ulyanova , General Director of the Marketing Agency for Clinic and Startups Medk.su, author of telegram channel (@Medicalksu), and Vladimir Samoilo, general director and co-founder of the company LLC MOST (medical educational systems and technologies).
MedTech is medical technologies that are used to save a person’s life and improve the quality of his life, as well as technologies that are used by doctors and medical facilities.
MedTech includes several areas, each of which is actively developing today.
- Prevention of health through applications and wearable devices (for example, fitness bracelets).
- Monitoring of patients through devices for a smart home.
- Diagnosis of diseases: DNA testing, diagnosis based on artificial intelligence.
- Treatment with the help of surgeons and digital drugs.
- Care and rehabilitation using services and gadgets for the elderly.
- Monitoring and increasing the effectiveness of medical facilities: MIS for clinics, methods of storing medical data.
You can distinguish several main players in the MedTech market.
- State. It regulates the legislative sphere, and also invests in projects that are responsible for the development of IT infrastructure.
- Corporations create projects within the framework of existing ones: telemedicine from Beeline and MTS, Yandex.ZDORYE , telemedicine in private network clinics. Corporations are also developed by corporate accelerators: MTS , Sberbank , Accelerator of the Freei and Bayer, Business Incubator NIU HSE.
- Startups create and work on the most breakthrough ideas, unlike corporations. Startups are engaged in the creation of medical services ( Docdoc , Productorov , Genotek , Lab4U ).
Starters also create gadgets and means for rehabilitation ( “Life button” , OneTrak , Motorika ), AI -based services for doctors and clinics ( Botkin AI , “Third Opinion” ) and new pharmaceuticals ( Biomed Clister Skolkovo ).
“Now millennials wear fitness bracelets, but for the most part people are not ready for gadgets, except for online records. From the side of the clinic, there is also a low demand for technology, they do not understand why to introduce a figure. In the regions, the clinic has no sites, while Moscow is mastering Instagram with might and main. ” Ksenia Ulyanova
Vladimir Samoilo spoke about the main points that will help to develop the MedTech market.
- The development of technologies related to the rapid data transfer, since without such data transmission channels it is difficult to collect relevant data about a person. For example, 5G technology, Real-Time video.
- Development of gadgets for a smart home and microservice architecture in medical facilities.
- The development of information systems (MIS) that help to receive customer data and conduct business processes.
“If the doctor wrote the medical history in one form (either electronic or paper), then he would have been fully used by the MIS. Now the doctor does not have time to duplicate data from medical scarters. ” Vladimir Samoilo
The most popular areas of development of Medtech are associated with the use of artificial intelligence, 3D-bio printer, virtual reality and neuro interfaces .
“The startup, who thinks that everything can be treated remotely, does not understand that the main risk is at the end of the service to get a corpse. Even if the startup saves 10 lives, will this one lost life be the corresponding price? Not everyone is aware of this risk. ” Vladimir Samoilo
During a remote examination, the doctor does not have a camera with a review of 180 degrees to see the posture of a person, his gait and other factors that will help to better identify the problem of a person.
The reverse side of telemedicine, that not all service users are ready to enter their data to the application, which makes it difficult to make a diagnosis.