1. The Future of Healthcare is Smart
BDent, Bart de Witte, MAppSc
Healthcare Industry Leader CEE / ALPS
October 2013 – Expo 2020 Event, Izmir
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Human to Machine Interaction
• Many new innovations, projects,
safety devices, computer
systems and improvements
require more time and effort on
the part of the front line. We
have to stop adding work….we
must to find a way to take hard
work away and make success
easy for the front line.
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“I am putting myself to the fullest possible use, which is all I think
that any conscious entity can ever hope to do”
HLAL9000, 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
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IBM the 5 in 5
Innovations that will change our lives in the next five years
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British Journal of Cancer
108, 941-950 (5 March 2013) |
doi:10.1038/bjc.2013.44:
A nanomaterial-based breath
test for distinguishing gastric
cancer from benign gastric
conditions
In the study (n=37) 90% of the
time, the breath test could tell the
difference between early and latestage stomach cancers.
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See Better – Hospital Smartrooms
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New information layers
Track your:
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- Sleep Patterns
- Food Intake
- Activity
- pH Level
- Tooth Brushing
- Mood
- vO2max
- Respiration Rate
- EEG
- Medication Intake
-…
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Big Data: this is just the beginning
9000
Volume in Exabytes
Percentage of
uncertain data
80
7000
60
Social
Media
6000
40
5000
4000
You are here
3000
VoIP
20
Percent of uncertain data
8000
Sensors100
&
Devices
Enterpris
e Data
0
2010
2015
Source: IBM Global Technology Outlook - 2012
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Water, water, every where, Nor any drop to drink.
ST Coleridge, 1798
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“In the next 10 years, data and the ability to
analyze them will do for doctors’ minds what Xray and medical imaging have done for their
vision”
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IBM‟s Watson Healthcare strategy focuses on solving 3 problems in
clinical practice
 Medicine is a science but practiced as an art
 Impossible to keep up and have access to existing knowledge
 The number of untapped information that can be used as a source of
knowledge is growing exponentially
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Creating a Corpus of Knowledge for Cancer Care
Ingestion of NCCN guidelines for breast cancer and lung cancer:
 Roughly 500,000 unique combinations of breast cancer patient attributes.
 Roughly 50,000 unique combinations of lung cancer patient attributes.
Over 600,000 pieces of evidence ingested, from 42 different
publications/publishers, including:
 The Breast Journal, National Comprehensive Cancer Network (Clinical Practice Guidelines, Drug and Biologics
compendium, et al.), American Journal Of Hematology, Annals Of Neurology, CA: A Cancer Journal For Clinicians,
Cancer Journal, Cochrane, EBSCO, Hematological Oncology, Hepatology, International Journal Of Cancer, Journal Of
Gene Medicine, Journal of Clinical Oncology, Journal of Oncology Practice, Massachusetts Medical Society Journal
Watch, Massachusetts Medical Society New England Journal Of Medicine, Merck, Nephrology, UptoDate, Clinical
Lung Cancer, Current Problems in Cancer, Cancer Treatment Reviews, Elsevier's Monographs in Cancer (multiple),
Clinical Breast Cancer, European Journal of Cancer, Lung Cancer (the journal).
Watson has received 14,700 hours of training from clinicians
Accurate: in the cases run, it's 90% accurate, the goal is 100% accurancy,
today physicians are about 50% accurate.
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Our medical knowledge will advance at record speeds
“The application of what we know will have a
bigger impact than any drug or technology likely
to be introduced in the next decade”
Sir Muir Gray,
Director NHS National Knowledge Service
& NHS Chief Knowledge Officer
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recommendations
 Create a legal framework and space to manage the massive amounts of
health-related data.
 Advocate the value of anonymised (big) data sharing and data portability
 Drive policies towards open data to accelerate research and investments
 Re-orient funding, focus on creating research on language support for
nateral language processing.
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TEŞEKKÜRLER
THANK YOU
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