Healthcare, from Products to Solutions Exploring some of the latest initiatives in the provision of healthcare solutions in Europe-2014 - from products to solutions
with high-level healthcare executives. Today, through Life Science Talks, we have decided to make some of this information available
to the professional community at large, provided it is non-confidential, of public interest, and likely to spark interesting partnerships in
the future.
This white paper therefore condenses data drawn from a number of informative meetings with decision makers in the European
healthcare sector during 2013 and 2014. More specifically, it is the result of an edition of Life science Talks dedicated to this subject
and held in Paris, in May 2014.
The discussions at this event were admirably moderated by Silvia Ondategui Parra, partner at EY, and were punctuated by keynotes
from leading stakeholders in European healthcare: Emmanuel Gomez, CNAM-TS, Head of Disease Management Programmes; Dr Rick
Greville, ABPI, Director of Wales and International Affairs; Thierry Zylberberg, Orange, Head of Orange Healthcare; Miguel Bernabeu,
Alcon (Novartis), Global Head of Market Access, Pricing and HEOR; Yvoine McCourt, Air Liquide, Head of Home Healthcare
International Development; Olivier Croly, GE Healthcare IT, GM Europe. Again, we thank them for sharing their views, their concerns,
and for outlining their projects in Europe within our forum.
Read Logica’s paper on the need for convergence of healthcare and pharmaCGI
As the biggest industry sector in most European economies, healthcare is already given a big chunk of the gross domestic product (GDP). This portion is expected to become even bigger and have a huge impact on employment, the opportunities to grow businesses and economies in general.
Read about some of the innovative solutions we offer for better healthcareCGI
Delivering healthcare is one of the most complex human activities. In recent decades, major transitions have taken place in diagnostics, pharmaceuticals and treatments resulting in shorter length of stay in healthcare facilities. The current transition to more personalised care and to longer term managed care pathways means that healthcare IT systems are changing direction. But this change may not happen smoothly.
This document discusses new strategies for pharmaceutical companies to bundle complementary products and services around drugs to improve outcomes for chronic diseases. Traditionally, healthcare products and services are evaluated and reimbursed individually, but this limits optimization for diseases like diabetes where costs are driven more by complications than individual treatments. The document explores bundling strategies like capitation payments and value-added services around drugs. However, patent expirations threaten many drug franchises in cardiovascular and respiratory areas. For combination solutions to succeed, companies need to demonstrate improved outcomes from integrated products and services compared to individual components.
This document discusses how life sciences companies can address challenges in the industry by adopting new technologies. It identifies trends putting pressure on companies, such as new regulations and shifting customer expectations. It then presents solutions that technology can provide: a new multi-channel commercial model to better engage customers; business agility through cloud-based platforms to accelerate innovation; and a focus on outcomes through data analytics and patient services to improve care. Adopting modern cloud technologies, the document argues, is key for companies to transform their business models and adapt to changes in the industry environment.
The document outlines the opportunities and challenges presented by big data in healthcare. It notes that vast amounts of data are now being generated from sources like genome sequencing, electronic health records, social media, and patient websites. However, simply having large datasets does not guarantee value; the data needs to be analyzed and linked together to generate insights. The document discusses four levels of big data applications from processing large volumes of data to complex modeling. It also examines challenges like developing robust governance, embracing new data uses, overcoming data fragmentation, ensuring data quality and standards, developing innovative analytic methods, addressing skills shortages, and achieving returns on investment. The goal is to improve patient outcomes and healthcare cost-effectiveness through big data.
United States life sciences companies face numerous challenges in 2015 related to market changes, consolidation, pricing pressures, and health reform. Six key issues are highlighted: 1) Market reconfiguration and consolidation due to factors like expiring patents are driving the need for companies to reassess strategies and explore M&A opportunities. 2) Pricing pressures exist from government efforts to control costs and from health plans increasing efforts to reduce pharmaceutical costs. 3) Health reform is shifting the market to value-based care, requiring companies to demonstrate drugs' and devices' true value and economic impact compared to alternatives.
Description of the "KAM Expert Wheel" which is a method to structure the activities of Key Account Managers and help them cope with the complexity of their task
Digital Health in the UK: An industry study for the Office of Life SciencesPatients Know Best
The document provides an overview of the digital health industry in the UK, analyzing trends across four sub-sectors: telehealthcare, mHealth, health analytics, and digitized health systems. It finds that the UK has been an early adopter in some areas like telecare and primary care electronic records. However, it also faces challenges commercializing innovations and building large companies. The report identifies five areas that could help the UK grow its digital health industry: addressing skills shortages, improving NHS understanding of digital solutions, clarifying data access and use, improving reimbursement policies, and strengthening commercialization capabilities.
Read Logica’s paper on the need for convergence of healthcare and pharmaCGI
As the biggest industry sector in most European economies, healthcare is already given a big chunk of the gross domestic product (GDP). This portion is expected to become even bigger and have a huge impact on employment, the opportunities to grow businesses and economies in general.
Read about some of the innovative solutions we offer for better healthcareCGI
Delivering healthcare is one of the most complex human activities. In recent decades, major transitions have taken place in diagnostics, pharmaceuticals and treatments resulting in shorter length of stay in healthcare facilities. The current transition to more personalised care and to longer term managed care pathways means that healthcare IT systems are changing direction. But this change may not happen smoothly.
This document discusses new strategies for pharmaceutical companies to bundle complementary products and services around drugs to improve outcomes for chronic diseases. Traditionally, healthcare products and services are evaluated and reimbursed individually, but this limits optimization for diseases like diabetes where costs are driven more by complications than individual treatments. The document explores bundling strategies like capitation payments and value-added services around drugs. However, patent expirations threaten many drug franchises in cardiovascular and respiratory areas. For combination solutions to succeed, companies need to demonstrate improved outcomes from integrated products and services compared to individual components.
This document discusses how life sciences companies can address challenges in the industry by adopting new technologies. It identifies trends putting pressure on companies, such as new regulations and shifting customer expectations. It then presents solutions that technology can provide: a new multi-channel commercial model to better engage customers; business agility through cloud-based platforms to accelerate innovation; and a focus on outcomes through data analytics and patient services to improve care. Adopting modern cloud technologies, the document argues, is key for companies to transform their business models and adapt to changes in the industry environment.
The document outlines the opportunities and challenges presented by big data in healthcare. It notes that vast amounts of data are now being generated from sources like genome sequencing, electronic health records, social media, and patient websites. However, simply having large datasets does not guarantee value; the data needs to be analyzed and linked together to generate insights. The document discusses four levels of big data applications from processing large volumes of data to complex modeling. It also examines challenges like developing robust governance, embracing new data uses, overcoming data fragmentation, ensuring data quality and standards, developing innovative analytic methods, addressing skills shortages, and achieving returns on investment. The goal is to improve patient outcomes and healthcare cost-effectiveness through big data.
United States life sciences companies face numerous challenges in 2015 related to market changes, consolidation, pricing pressures, and health reform. Six key issues are highlighted: 1) Market reconfiguration and consolidation due to factors like expiring patents are driving the need for companies to reassess strategies and explore M&A opportunities. 2) Pricing pressures exist from government efforts to control costs and from health plans increasing efforts to reduce pharmaceutical costs. 3) Health reform is shifting the market to value-based care, requiring companies to demonstrate drugs' and devices' true value and economic impact compared to alternatives.
Description of the "KAM Expert Wheel" which is a method to structure the activities of Key Account Managers and help them cope with the complexity of their task
Digital Health in the UK: An industry study for the Office of Life SciencesPatients Know Best
The document provides an overview of the digital health industry in the UK, analyzing trends across four sub-sectors: telehealthcare, mHealth, health analytics, and digitized health systems. It finds that the UK has been an early adopter in some areas like telecare and primary care electronic records. However, it also faces challenges commercializing innovations and building large companies. The report identifies five areas that could help the UK grow its digital health industry: addressing skills shortages, improving NHS understanding of digital solutions, clarifying data access and use, improving reimbursement policies, and strengthening commercialization capabilities.
This document announces a conference on evolving guidelines for disclosing healthcare professional spending across Europe. The 6th Annual Global Transparency Reporting Congress will be held on April 7-8, 2016 in Frankfurt, Germany and will feature presentations from transparency reporting professionals from various pharmaceutical companies and industry associations. The conference will provide insights on implementing disclosure guidelines and managing compliance risks related to healthcare professional payments.
Government cost containment methods in Asia-Pacific markets are as diverse as the cultures represented in the region, so what lessons are the markets leveraging from cost containment experiences? And what, in the end, are pharmaceutical companies supposed to do about it?
Whitepaper: New concept opportunities in personal careSagentia
This document discusses new opportunities for devices in the personal care industry. It notes that major consumer goods companies are starting to integrate technology-enabled devices and diagnostics into their brands to create differentiation and provide personalized experiences. Some key points made include:
- Devices can be used for diagnostics, in combination with products, or on their own for therapy. Major companies like Unilever, P&G, L'Oreal and others have launched devices or partnered with tech firms.
- Market drivers include consumer demand for personalized care, aging populations interested in wellness, and technology advances making devices cheaper and more accessible.
- Past device efforts provide lessons on thoroughly understanding consumers, defining commercial objectives early, and
This document outlines a vision for next-generation commercial capabilities within the pharmaceutical industry. It discusses the paradigm shift occurring as healthcare markets evolve more rapidly, driving the need for pharmaceutical companies to innovate their commercial models to navigate increasing complexity and costs. It proposes a collaborative model where companies leverage external partners' expertise in analytics, technology, and skills alongside internal assets to build commercial centers of excellence. These centers of excellence would standardize processes while clustering subject matter expertise to develop capabilities as a strategic differentiator and recognize efficiencies over time. The goal is to provide faster access to insights from vast and diverse healthcare data sources to implement locally relevant solutions on a global scale.
Tahmin ve internet tabanlı kolaylaştırmaya dayalı bir çalışma. Haiti' de elektrik kesintileri, internet erişim kesintileri, İngilizce - Fransızca - yerel dil, düşük eğitim profili, ada olmaktan kaynaklanan lojistik zorluk, fakirlik, kolera salgını,... engellere rağmen iyileşme sağlanmış.
McKinsey Sağlık Tedarik Zinciriyle, FMCG Tedarik Zinciri karşılaştırıyor. Sağlık Tedarik Zincirindeki iyileştirme fırsatına ve toplumsal boyutuna dikkat çekiyor.
DHL_LSH_Europe_Whitepaper_MedicalDevices_WebIan Moore
The document discusses the challenges facing the European medical device supply chain. It notes that the industry is facing pressures from the transition to value-based healthcare with more decision makers involved, intensifying cost pressures from payers looking to reduce costs, and stricter regulations. The supply chain must transform to address these challenges by becoming more efficient and tailored to better meet the needs of all decision makers while also reducing costs.
French generics market attractiveness 2017 - 2022 excerptJean-Michel Peny
This excerpt of a report published in 2017 describes and explains the dynamics of the French generics and biosimilars markets in France, and evaluate their attractiveness by 2022
http://pwc.to/1bAPmr1
L'étude « Socio-economic impact of mHealth » est une étude prospective réalisée par PwC, qui s'appuie sur une quantité importante de données permettant d'analyser l'impact économique de la m-Santé dans les 27 pays de l'Union européenne.
The Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI) is a public-private partnership between the European Union and the pharmaceutical industry that aims to boost pharmaceutical innovation in Europe. IMI supports precompetitive research through large collaborative projects involving multiple stakeholders. The initial IMI projects focused on developing biomarkers and tools to help develop more targeted treatments, characterizing diseases like asthma to enable personalized medicine, and establishing databases and models to better predict drug toxicity and safety. The current IMI research agenda is being revised to broaden its focus beyond early drug development and make the entire EU drug development process more efficient.
This document discusses privacy and security concerns regarding mobile health (mHealth) systems. It notes that as mHealth applications collect more personal health and location data from devices like smartphones and sensors, questions arise around patient privacy, data sharing, security, and how to properly obtain user consent. The document examines these issues and their implications for the relationships between patients, healthcare providers, and other stakeholders in mHealth. It argues that addressing privacy, security, and regulatory challenges will be important to enable the continued growth of mHealth.
- Luminex Corporation is a medical instruments and supplies company that develops and sells biological testing technologies. It has a small product line but uses its patented platform to develop customized products.
- The analyst recommends buying Luminex stock with a price target of $23.19. Luminex has high growth potential as a small cap company and has low debt levels for its industry. It also has a stable product line and cutting-edge technology.
- Luminex is partnering with government agencies in the US and abroad to develop new testing technologies, which could lead to increased revenues from government contracts if successful.
The healthcare supply chain faces increasing pressures from growing complexity, global demand, and quality issues. The current supply chain model will not be able to meet these challenges. Developing new capabilities around segmentation, agility, measurement, alignment and collaboration can help transform supply chain performance. This would lower costs, improve access to healthcare, and enhance patient safety, while also providing strategic benefits to companies. Transforming healthcare supply chains requires an integrated, cross-functional effort.
This document discusses how hospital supply chains can transform from basic models focused on operations to more advanced models that balance costs, efficiency, and quality of care. It identifies three key enablers of transformation: collaborative governance structures involving clinicians, streamlined supply chain processes, and integrated IT systems. A case study highlights how one healthcare system achieved cost savings through strategic sourcing, a distribution center, and technology like barcoding medications.
The 10 companies booming in healthcare sector smallinsightscare
Development is a continuous process in any sector. It brings in more comfort, more precision, and more enhanced way of living.Acknowledging the remarkable contribution of the leading companies in the care sector, we bring to you the special issue of “The 10 Companies Booming in Healthcare Sector”.
Evaluation of health technologies in France: from theory to practice cheweb1
1) The document discusses economic evaluation of health technologies in France, outlining reforms that have strengthened the role of the French National Health Board (HAS) in conducting economic assessments.
2) Reforms in 2008 and 2012 gave HAS legal authority to produce economic guidance on pricing for new technologies alongside its clinical assessments.
3) HAS now produces efficiency guidance within 90 days of new technology submissions to inform pricing decisions, assessing expected cost-effectiveness and budget impact.
The document provides biographies of three executives from Reimbursement Intelligence: Rhonda Greenapple, Julie Schachter, and Maxim Miller. It then summarizes an article about challenges faced by the pharmaceutical industry during product development and strategies to optimize commercial opportunities. The summary identifies four critical steps in product development covered in the article: proof of concept, opportunity identification, pre-launch planning, and post-launch/life cycle management. It emphasizes the importance of understanding reimbursement and health outcomes at each step to maximize access and commercial success of new products.
The document discusses emerging technologies that can be used in the classroom, including Twitter for communicating between teachers and students and facilitating class discussions; Skype for field trips, guest speakers, and helping absent students; podcasts for reproducing lessons and sharing information with parents; and blogs for engaging students outside of class, informing parents, and facilitating discussion. Examples of using each technology in the classroom are provided.
True corporate responsibility is much more than just a buzzword or "actions", and is to be seen in its complexity. Nowadays it is almost trendy to criticize the near hegemonic capitalist economic system, but the perceptions differ pretty well about what comes next or what should come next. The "neoliberal" capitalist model and the non-profit or altruistic model are very far from each other, and - for a long time - it seemed that the gap between the two worlds could not be bridged.
However, in recent years the leaders of both worlds (for-profit and non-profit) have recognized that a holistic approach is needed and the only a shift from the for-profit (that is, for shareholders) to the concept of for-benefit (that is, for all concerned) can be the basis of long-term sustainability.
Mr. Tibor Héjj's presentation on social ventures explores the main characteristics and potential of the so called "social entrepreneurship" (that is, "doing business for others") and the "for-benefit" conception, two concepts that enables capitalism to get to a higher level while both economy and society benefit from this process. Mr. Héjj also describes the foundation and operation of a for-benefit company, "Sunflower", that strives for offering sustainable jobs and integrated employment rehabilitation for the disabled.
This document announces a conference on evolving guidelines for disclosing healthcare professional spending across Europe. The 6th Annual Global Transparency Reporting Congress will be held on April 7-8, 2016 in Frankfurt, Germany and will feature presentations from transparency reporting professionals from various pharmaceutical companies and industry associations. The conference will provide insights on implementing disclosure guidelines and managing compliance risks related to healthcare professional payments.
Government cost containment methods in Asia-Pacific markets are as diverse as the cultures represented in the region, so what lessons are the markets leveraging from cost containment experiences? And what, in the end, are pharmaceutical companies supposed to do about it?
Whitepaper: New concept opportunities in personal careSagentia
This document discusses new opportunities for devices in the personal care industry. It notes that major consumer goods companies are starting to integrate technology-enabled devices and diagnostics into their brands to create differentiation and provide personalized experiences. Some key points made include:
- Devices can be used for diagnostics, in combination with products, or on their own for therapy. Major companies like Unilever, P&G, L'Oreal and others have launched devices or partnered with tech firms.
- Market drivers include consumer demand for personalized care, aging populations interested in wellness, and technology advances making devices cheaper and more accessible.
- Past device efforts provide lessons on thoroughly understanding consumers, defining commercial objectives early, and
This document outlines a vision for next-generation commercial capabilities within the pharmaceutical industry. It discusses the paradigm shift occurring as healthcare markets evolve more rapidly, driving the need for pharmaceutical companies to innovate their commercial models to navigate increasing complexity and costs. It proposes a collaborative model where companies leverage external partners' expertise in analytics, technology, and skills alongside internal assets to build commercial centers of excellence. These centers of excellence would standardize processes while clustering subject matter expertise to develop capabilities as a strategic differentiator and recognize efficiencies over time. The goal is to provide faster access to insights from vast and diverse healthcare data sources to implement locally relevant solutions on a global scale.
Tahmin ve internet tabanlı kolaylaştırmaya dayalı bir çalışma. Haiti' de elektrik kesintileri, internet erişim kesintileri, İngilizce - Fransızca - yerel dil, düşük eğitim profili, ada olmaktan kaynaklanan lojistik zorluk, fakirlik, kolera salgını,... engellere rağmen iyileşme sağlanmış.
McKinsey Sağlık Tedarik Zinciriyle, FMCG Tedarik Zinciri karşılaştırıyor. Sağlık Tedarik Zincirindeki iyileştirme fırsatına ve toplumsal boyutuna dikkat çekiyor.
DHL_LSH_Europe_Whitepaper_MedicalDevices_WebIan Moore
The document discusses the challenges facing the European medical device supply chain. It notes that the industry is facing pressures from the transition to value-based healthcare with more decision makers involved, intensifying cost pressures from payers looking to reduce costs, and stricter regulations. The supply chain must transform to address these challenges by becoming more efficient and tailored to better meet the needs of all decision makers while also reducing costs.
French generics market attractiveness 2017 - 2022 excerptJean-Michel Peny
This excerpt of a report published in 2017 describes and explains the dynamics of the French generics and biosimilars markets in France, and evaluate their attractiveness by 2022
http://pwc.to/1bAPmr1
L'étude « Socio-economic impact of mHealth » est une étude prospective réalisée par PwC, qui s'appuie sur une quantité importante de données permettant d'analyser l'impact économique de la m-Santé dans les 27 pays de l'Union européenne.
The Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI) is a public-private partnership between the European Union and the pharmaceutical industry that aims to boost pharmaceutical innovation in Europe. IMI supports precompetitive research through large collaborative projects involving multiple stakeholders. The initial IMI projects focused on developing biomarkers and tools to help develop more targeted treatments, characterizing diseases like asthma to enable personalized medicine, and establishing databases and models to better predict drug toxicity and safety. The current IMI research agenda is being revised to broaden its focus beyond early drug development and make the entire EU drug development process more efficient.
This document discusses privacy and security concerns regarding mobile health (mHealth) systems. It notes that as mHealth applications collect more personal health and location data from devices like smartphones and sensors, questions arise around patient privacy, data sharing, security, and how to properly obtain user consent. The document examines these issues and their implications for the relationships between patients, healthcare providers, and other stakeholders in mHealth. It argues that addressing privacy, security, and regulatory challenges will be important to enable the continued growth of mHealth.
- Luminex Corporation is a medical instruments and supplies company that develops and sells biological testing technologies. It has a small product line but uses its patented platform to develop customized products.
- The analyst recommends buying Luminex stock with a price target of $23.19. Luminex has high growth potential as a small cap company and has low debt levels for its industry. It also has a stable product line and cutting-edge technology.
- Luminex is partnering with government agencies in the US and abroad to develop new testing technologies, which could lead to increased revenues from government contracts if successful.
The healthcare supply chain faces increasing pressures from growing complexity, global demand, and quality issues. The current supply chain model will not be able to meet these challenges. Developing new capabilities around segmentation, agility, measurement, alignment and collaboration can help transform supply chain performance. This would lower costs, improve access to healthcare, and enhance patient safety, while also providing strategic benefits to companies. Transforming healthcare supply chains requires an integrated, cross-functional effort.
This document discusses how hospital supply chains can transform from basic models focused on operations to more advanced models that balance costs, efficiency, and quality of care. It identifies three key enablers of transformation: collaborative governance structures involving clinicians, streamlined supply chain processes, and integrated IT systems. A case study highlights how one healthcare system achieved cost savings through strategic sourcing, a distribution center, and technology like barcoding medications.
The 10 companies booming in healthcare sector smallinsightscare
Development is a continuous process in any sector. It brings in more comfort, more precision, and more enhanced way of living.Acknowledging the remarkable contribution of the leading companies in the care sector, we bring to you the special issue of “The 10 Companies Booming in Healthcare Sector”.
Evaluation of health technologies in France: from theory to practice cheweb1
1) The document discusses economic evaluation of health technologies in France, outlining reforms that have strengthened the role of the French National Health Board (HAS) in conducting economic assessments.
2) Reforms in 2008 and 2012 gave HAS legal authority to produce economic guidance on pricing for new technologies alongside its clinical assessments.
3) HAS now produces efficiency guidance within 90 days of new technology submissions to inform pricing decisions, assessing expected cost-effectiveness and budget impact.
The document provides biographies of three executives from Reimbursement Intelligence: Rhonda Greenapple, Julie Schachter, and Maxim Miller. It then summarizes an article about challenges faced by the pharmaceutical industry during product development and strategies to optimize commercial opportunities. The summary identifies four critical steps in product development covered in the article: proof of concept, opportunity identification, pre-launch planning, and post-launch/life cycle management. It emphasizes the importance of understanding reimbursement and health outcomes at each step to maximize access and commercial success of new products.
The document discusses emerging technologies that can be used in the classroom, including Twitter for communicating between teachers and students and facilitating class discussions; Skype for field trips, guest speakers, and helping absent students; podcasts for reproducing lessons and sharing information with parents; and blogs for engaging students outside of class, informing parents, and facilitating discussion. Examples of using each technology in the classroom are provided.
True corporate responsibility is much more than just a buzzword or "actions", and is to be seen in its complexity. Nowadays it is almost trendy to criticize the near hegemonic capitalist economic system, but the perceptions differ pretty well about what comes next or what should come next. The "neoliberal" capitalist model and the non-profit or altruistic model are very far from each other, and - for a long time - it seemed that the gap between the two worlds could not be bridged.
However, in recent years the leaders of both worlds (for-profit and non-profit) have recognized that a holistic approach is needed and the only a shift from the for-profit (that is, for shareholders) to the concept of for-benefit (that is, for all concerned) can be the basis of long-term sustainability.
Mr. Tibor Héjj's presentation on social ventures explores the main characteristics and potential of the so called "social entrepreneurship" (that is, "doing business for others") and the "for-benefit" conception, two concepts that enables capitalism to get to a higher level while both economy and society benefit from this process. Mr. Héjj also describes the foundation and operation of a for-benefit company, "Sunflower", that strives for offering sustainable jobs and integrated employment rehabilitation for the disabled.
This document discusses topic sentences and provides examples of different types of effective topic sentences. A topic sentence introduces the main idea of a paragraph. It can be in the form of a question, one or two words, a sound, an interesting fact, a belief or opinion, or begin with a quotation. Examples of different types of topic sentences are provided to illustrate how to grab the reader's attention with the main point of the paragraph.
The document provides examples of words describing feelings and emotions used in sentences. It includes over 50 sentences demonstrating words like enthusiastic, worried, shy, bitter, homesick, threatened, thankful, furious, curious, cheated, grief-stricken, stressed, left out, hopeful, trapped, rebellious, puzzled, cautious, impressed, bored, discouraged, down, doubtful, delighted, humiliated, impatient, miserable, awkward, exhausted, unsatisfied, moody, anxious, depressed, calm, self-conscious, lazy, fearless, fortunate, withdrawn, and jealous. The document aims to help readers understand the meaning and usage of different words related to feelings and emotions.
The document summarizes the development and potential uses of micro aerial vehicles (MAVs), which are drones smaller than house flies. MAVs are currently being developed by the US military and could enter mass production this decade. They could be used for spying missions through small cameras and microphones. However, developing sufficient battery power in such a small device is a major technical challenge. More advanced MAVs may be developed for assassination using lethal toxins. In the future, swarms of MAVs could be deployed for surveillance or on battlefields, but some are concerned about privacy and safety issues related to this technology.
1) Many people living in slums lack basic sanitation facilities like toilets and access to clean water. During lessons, the document discusses how people in developed countries take these utilities for granted.
2) The document includes a table matching sanitation related words with their definitions to test knowledge from a previous class. These include terms like tap, sewage, latrine, and feces.
3) The document references a scene in Slumdog Millionaire taking place in a latrine and asks how it reveals aspects of the brothers' personalities.
This document contains an English language exam for a second year ESO (secondary education) student. The exam consists of multiple choice questions and short answer questions testing reading, writing, and listening comprehension skills.
The reading comprehension section contains a passage about a student named Grace's experience living in Germany and noticing how popular cycling is for transportation compared to her home in England. Students are asked to find synonyms in the passage, identify true/false statements and justify their answers with evidence, and answer short questions about why bicycles are less popular in England and what Grace likes about cycling.
The writing section prompts students to write a 125-150 word letter inviting a friend or relative on a two week holiday that was won,
This document outlines the topics, activities, and learning objectives for three terms. The first term focuses on identity and stereotypes, including listening to discussions on stereotypes and reading articles on gender issues. The second term examines the future and dystopian societies through exploring science fiction films and reading about technological advances. The third term centers around entertainment, such as studying Elizabethan theatre and analyzing the film Shakespeare in Love. The terms incorporate listening, reading, writing, speaking, language, and vocabulary exercises related to the central themes.
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Accenture Transformative Power of Healthcare Technology M&A in Life Science 2015Arda Ural, MSc, MBA, PhD
Explosive advances in healthcare technology are enabling new opportunities for technology mergers and acquisitions (M&A) that focus on improving patient outcomes. Digital technologies allow for enhanced patient services and care. Pharmaceutical companies are increasingly engaging in M&A deals and partnerships with medical device and technology companies to develop new business models and position themselves for future growth. Healthcare is undergoing a fundamental shift that is forcing new collaborations across industries to leverage technology for managing health.
Wealth creation and academic health science networks emc aridhia and pivotal 0EMC
This document discusses the role of academic health science networks (AHSNs) in improving health outcomes and driving economic growth through innovation and wealth creation. It argues that embracing biomedical informatics and open collaboration across institutional boundaries will be key to their success. Specifically, it recommends that AHSNs establish platforms and ecosystems to integrate clinical, patient, imaging and genomic data. This would allow real-time analysis and risk stratification to enhance care delivery and outcomes. The document emphasizes that trust, transparency, and a focus on patient needs will be essential for collaborative informatics efforts to succeed.
mHealth Israel: PwC emerging mhealth paths for growthLevi Shapiro
Emerging mHealth holds great potential to improve healthcare access, costs and quality through ubiquitous mobile devices. However, widespread adoption faces challenges from healthcare's resistance to change and the need to navigate complex, fragmented systems. Expectations for mHealth are high among patients, doctors and payers, but most experts expect slower adoption as improving patient care often disrupts traditional models. Emerging markets are pioneering mHealth by leaping ahead through greater needs and fewer barriers, showing the path could be smoother where systems are less rigidly established.
1. Improving efficiency in cancer care is urgently needed to help relieve budgetary pressures and ensure equal access to advances in treatment for all patients. Up to 20% of healthcare spending is estimated to be wasted on ineffective interventions.
2. Advances in cancer diagnosis and treatment promise to transform outcomes, but without improving efficiency, governments may not be able to afford these innovations. Variations in cancer outcomes between countries suggest there is room for improvement.
3. Reducing inefficiencies could free up resources to provide more effective care and ensure all patients who could benefit have access to innovative new treatments in a timely manner. This will require new forms of collaboration between
This document discusses how sharing economy tools like social media and ICT can improve healthcare outcomes and reduce costs. It argues that connecting healthcare professionals through these tools allows for improved knowledge sharing, more rapid dissemination of best practices, and reduced errors and treatment times. The document reports that studies have found 30-40% reductions in healthcare costs when clinical pharmacists are integrated into care teams using sharing economy instruments like social media. It calls for incorporating sharing economy principles and management training into clinical pharmacist education to further optimize healthcare quality and costs.
This document summarizes discussions from a series of events on technology ventures. It addresses 21st century paradigms for innovation, new innovation models, and focuses on digital technologies, biotechnology, and healthcare. Key topics discussed include using data and incentives to encourage preventative healthcare, balancing public and private use of health data, and how new firms are driving innovation in genomics and new drug discovery models through collaboration.
Mobile health (mHealth) holds great promise to address issues in healthcare provision by leveraging ubiquitous mobile technologies. However, experts caution that widespread adoption of mHealth will be challenging and take time due to entrenched interests in existing systems and the need for disruptive changes. While patients, doctors and payers see benefits and inevitability of mHealth, most in the industry expect a period of hype, disillusionment, and slow progress as behaviors change and viable business models emerge. Further, adoption faces greater barriers in developed countries' complex systems compared to emerging markets with fewer obstacles but high demand for improved access to care.
Analysis of drivers that cause restricted access to funding for smaller biotech companies.
A detailed reviewed of the steps
venture capitalists and companies are
taking — models such as fail-fast R&D, asset-centric funding and more.
Proposal of a model that
could radically change R&D by taking a
much more holistic approach to drug
development, sharing information to
learn in real time across the cycle of care
and fundamentally changing how risk
and reward are allocated.
Practical guide on private funding for EU eHealth SMEsgetslidesdeck
The document discusses trends in digital health and investment in Europe compared to the US. Some key points:
1) Venture funding for digital health has grown rapidly in recent years on both sides of the Atlantic, with over $4 billion invested in the US in 2014 alone. However, investment in Europe still lags behind, though some large funding rounds have occurred.
2) Most digital health startups in Europe are still at the seed stage, but more are qualifying for Series A funding and beyond in recent years.
3) Factors holding back more investment in Europe include digital health initiatives still being in early stages of development and a fragmented healthcare system compared to the larger US market. Interviews with an investor
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Healthcare, from Products to Solutions Exploring some of the latest initiatives in the provision of healthcare solutions in Europe-2014 - from products to solutions
1. Healthcare, from Products to Solutions
Exploring some of the latest initiatives in the provision of healthcare solutions in Europe
A white paper by Gensearch (all rights reserved) – January 2015
2. 2
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
From experts to experts …
As an executive search firm dedicated to the Life Sciences, Gensearch is involved in constant quality discussions behind closed doors
with high-level healthcare executives. Today, through Life Science Talks, we have decided to make some of this information available
to the professional community at large, provided it is non-confidential, of public interest, and likely to spark interesting partnerships in
the future.
This white paper therefore condenses data drawn from a number of informative meetings with decision makers in the European
healthcare sector during 2013 and 2014. More specifically, it is the result of an edition of Life science Talks dedicated to this subject
and held in Paris, in May 2014.
The discussions at this event were admirably moderated by Silvia Ondategui Parra, partner at EY, and were punctuated by keynotes
from leading stakeholders in European healthcare: Emmanuel Gomez, CNAM-TS, Head of Disease Management Programmes; Dr Rick
Greville, ABPI, Director of Wales and International Affairs; Thierry Zylberberg, Orange, Head of Orange Healthcare; Miguel Bernabeu,
Alcon (Novartis), Global Head of Market Access, Pricing and HEOR; Yvoine McCourt, Air Liquide, Head of Home Healthcare
International Development; Olivier Croly, GE Healthcare IT, GM Europe. Again, we thank them for sharing their views, their concerns,
and for outlining their projects in Europe within our forum.
Updating the industry
The challenges healthcare systems are facing today – a growing financial burden coupled with depleted sources of income – will
require new forms of partnerships in the future, either between industries or between public and private organisations. The industry,
whether pharmaceutical or Medtech, has entered a process of renewal and is revisiting its business model in order to alleviate financial
costs, as well as to gain in quality and efficiency. During the Life science Talks event in May, the speakers outlined their strategies for
us, along with a few exemplary projects and partnerships. These are indicative of a new mind-set: in a context of global healthcare
challenges, the only solutions reside in active and organised collaboration between economic agents that were heretofore isolated, or
even in competition with each other. These partnerships are a great source of innovation and momentum, giving stakeholders great
hope for the future in our depressed economies.
As the industry realigns with payers’ concerns, and moves from a position of selling product benefits to one of generating and
measuring health outcomes (through adherence, telemonitoring, etc.), it understands that isolated products or services, however
competitive in terms of cost or quality, are no longer sufficient to spark client interest. Such products must come enhanced with
innovative and field-related value-added services, much of which is digitalised, to justify and monitor the benefits they claim to
provide. This new trend can be summed up as the switch from Products to Solutions.
The following pages analyse in detail the three dimensions of this economic revolution: how it modifies the industry’s relationship with
the payer, with the patient, and with the client.
From Products to Solutions
No company today seems to have the in-house capabilities to cover all the requirements of this new marketing mix that encompasses
medical technology, communications technology, data management expertise and personal or expert support. Furthermore, as they
aim to provide maximum quality in their services, companies generally do not wish to stray from their core competencies. This dictates
the need for technological and human partnerships, which are still exceptional, but should become the norm in the future.
One of the key aspects of the structural revolution taking place in the sector is data management, as the industry now operates in a
world of connected objects, databases and exponential personal medical information. It is therefore calling on governments and public
administrations to leverage their global position and adopt a top-down approach, to structure data management on a global level, and
to invest in the latest technology to ensure robust systems and securely stored data. Data management is one, if not the only cost-
cutting source available, ensuring, all the while, equal or better quality of services.
Global data management should enable patient access to the most specialised medicine anywhere in the world, a not so far-fetched
public health utopia of ubiquitous expertise. In data management lies the future of medicine of the third millennium.
3. 3
CONTENTS
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 2
CONTENTS 3
REDEFINING THE INDUSTRY’S RELATIONSHIP WITH THE PAYER 5
- AN EXAMPLE FROM THE UK - 6
HOW THE INDUSTRY IS REINVENTING ITS RELATIONSHIP
WITH PUBLIC AUTHORITIES TO REFLECT STATE CONCERNS
THE MEDICINES OPTIMISATION STRATEGY 6
THE ABPI/NHS ENGAGEMENT 7
THE CHALLENGES OF THIS INNOVATIVE PARTNERSHIP 10
- AN EXAMPLE FROM FRANCE – 11
A DISEASE MANAGEMENT PROGRAMME DESIGNED TO HELP PATIENTS
AND ALLEVIATE THE BURDEN ON SOCIAL SECURITY
THE IMPORTANCE OF FRENCH NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE IS NOT TO BE UNDERESTIMATED 11
THE AIM OF THE SOPHIA PROGRAMME 12
THE TANGIBLE RESULTS OF THE PROGRAMME SO FAR 13
CHALLENGES FOR SOPHIA IN THE COMING YEARS 14
REDEFINING THE INDUSTRY’S RELATIONSHIP WITH THE PATIENT 15
HOME HOSPITALISATION AND INTEGRATED SOLUTIONS 16
THE WHY AND THE HOW
THE EXAMPLE OF COPD (CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DISEASE) 16
THE KPIS OF INTEGRATED SOLUTIONS 17
WHY THE MOVE TO INTEGRATED SOLUTIONS IS INEVITABLE 17
- THE EXAMPLE OF SLEEP APNOEA - 18
ON THE GLOBAL AND INDIVIDUAL BENEFIT OF INTEGRATED SOLUTIONS
- THE CASE FOR DATA SHARING - 19
NATIONAL OR WORLDWIDE ACCESS TO THE BEST MEDICAL EXPERTISE 19
DATA IS THE GREATEST SOURCE OF SAVINGS: THE POWER OF 1 (1%) 20
THE IMPACT OF THE INDUSTRIAL INTERNET ON HEALTHCARE ORGANISATIONS 21
REDEFINING THE INDUSTRY’S RELATIONSHIP WITH ITS CLIENTS 23
4. 4
- THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE BUSINESS MODEL – 24
THE NEW HEALTHCARE ECOSYSTEM WILL IMPACT BUSINESS 24
- THE EXAMPLE OF ARIADNE – 25
ALCON’S PROJECT TO ADDRESS THE NEEDS OF HEALTHCARE PROVIDERS IN EUROPE
THE OBJECTIVE 25
THE UK EXAMPLE 25
THE SPANISH EXAMPLE 26
ENTERING AN ERA OF ACTIVE INDUSTRIAL PARTNERSHIPS 27
EXAMPLES OF PARTNERSHIPS 28
IN THE AREA OF RISK IDENTIFICATION, HOME HEALTHCARE, AND COMPLIANCE
VALCRONIC (SPAIN) 28
GECHRONIC (SPAIN) 28
ORANGE & JANSSEN INITIATIVE FOR MEDICAL COMPLIANCE (FRANCE,IN PROGRESS) 28
- THE CASE FOR CONNECTED HEALTH CENTERS - 29
EXAMPLES OF PARTNERSHIPS
THE “REGION SANS FILM” SHARED MEDICAL IMAGING PROJECT (FRANCE) 29
THE ANDRALTM TELE-HEMATOLOGY PROJECT (FRANCE) 29
THE SMARTVIEWTM CARDIOLOGY PROJECT (FRANCE) 30
THE MY HEALTH LINE TM PROJECT (CAMEROON) 30
THE INDUSTRY’S PLEA TO GOVERNMENTS AND PUBLIC HEALTH DECISION MAKERS: MAKE
PROFESSIONALISED DATA MANAGEMENT POSSIBLE 31
DATA IS AT THE HEART OF MEDECINE 32
FORMS OF COMMUNICATION AND THE DATA COLLECTED 32
CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE INDUSTRY TODAY 34
1/ INTEROPERABILITY AND SCALABILITY 35
2/ DATA OVERFLOW FOR HEALTH PROFESSIONALS 35
3/ REIMBURSEMENTS AND REGULATIONS 35
4/ THE BOOM OF CONNECTED MEDICAL DEVICES 36
CONCLUSIONS 37
5. 5
REDEFINING THE INDUSTRY’S RELATIONSHIP WITH THE PAYER
As the pharmaceutical industry is entering the “post-blockbuster era”, and MedTech organisations are maturing in their development,
it has become critical for both sectors to adapt their business model to the payer’s current constraints, obligations and mind-set.
The growing burden of chronic or non-communicable diseases on healthcare systems in the Western world, at a time when states no
longer have any budgetary leeway to sustain these systems, has encouraged new types of partnerships between industry and payers.
6. 6
- AN EXAMPLE FROM THE UK -
HOW THE INDUSTRY IS REINVENTING ITS RELATIONSHIP
WITH PUBLIC AUTHORITIES TO REFLECT STATE CONCERNS
In his presentation on the UK, Dr Rick Greville
1
dates the redefinition of relations between industry and payers – i.e. the evolution side
by side of the NHS and the pharmaceutical industry – to the publication of the Innovation, Health and Wealth report on 5 December
2011. This report outlined the need to support the adoption and dissemination of innovative medicines across the NHS, and was
warmly welcomed by the ABPI, the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry.
THE MEDICINES OPTIMISATION STRATEGY
One of the most important aspects of the current NHS-pharmaceutical industry partnership is the Medicines Optimisation strategy. The
goal is clear: to continue to gradually reduce the proportion of the yearly NHS budget spent on medicines. In 1999, this proportion was
13%, and in 2012 lower than 10%. The strategy is to target avoidable medicines wastage in primary care running today at
approximately £150M per year.
More importantly, however, Medicines Optimisation is a process by which one can ensure that the right patient gets the right
medicines at the right time, in turn improving adherence, reducing waste and eliminating harm. The scope is therefore vast and far-
reaching, bundling fields of intervention as varied as efficacy of medicines, patient adherence, safety, and wastage reduction. Equally,
the expected outcomes are global, and span patient quality of life; reduction of expensive hospital interventions; prevention of disease
progression; redesign of pathways to care, to maximise value from resources; waste, errors or adverse events prevention; patient
adherence improvement.
Medicines Optimisation is nevertheless first and foremost a patient-centred approach, based on 4 principles:
- Understanding the patient experience
- Evidence-based choice of medicines
- Making medicines optimisation part of routine practice
- Ensuring optimal safety of medicines use
These guiding principles are implemented through aligned measurement and monitoring.
Finally, Medicines Optimisation is a sound strategy because it represents a 3-way WIN, WIN, WIN: payer, industry and patient reap the
benefits of this system concurrently. The relationships are stronger because based on reciprocity. Patient focus means greater
engagement, support and individualised care, and a safer use of medicines. By focusing on outcomes, the industry will be held
accountable for the intrinsic value of medicines, and patients will benefit from a quicker access to innovative medicines. The NHS will
increase collaboration across sectors, focusing on patients and quality, as well as on a better use of medicines and resources.
1
Dr Rick Greville is Director of Wales and International Affairs for the ABPI (Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry)
7. 7
THE ABPI/NHS ENGAGEMENT
The ABPI is exemplary in its approach to supporting and partnering a national health system in a Western economy today.
Its partnership with the NHS is based on an overriding objective termed “Transforming Relationships”. The ABPI’s engagement
encompasses:
• Engagement with multiple stakeholders
• Greater collaboration between Pharma companies
• Patient focused activities such as Joint Working projects
• Transformational service provision alongside medicines
• The drive to improve patient outcomes by working with partners – collaboration is at the heart of the model
1/ LOCAL PRESENCE AND ENGAGEMENT
To ensure maximum reach and collaboration efficiency, the ABPI organisation will continue to reflect the NHS organisation in the field
and, likewise, cover distinct local territories.
8. 8
2/ A JOINT WORKING GUIDE
To ensure fluidity in NHS/ABPI collaboration, a working process has been defined which will serve as a guideline for all future ventures.
Definition and approval of this conceptual workflow is in itself an example of the new approach. It is applicable for the entire UK or
locally empowering participants at all levels to engage in partnership projects.
9. 9
3/ EXAMPLES OF CURRENT PROJECTS APPLYING THIS WORK STREAM PROCESS
Examples of current NHS/ABPI partnerships include:
- Integrated Care Pathway for Diabetes. The goal is to improve clinical care for diabetic patients through better
coordination and management in primary care. Three Pharma companies are working in partnership with the local NHS
organisations to improve patient outcomes in diabetes.
- Call for Collaboration on Medicines Optimisation strategy work streams. This is an opportunity for companies to
actively participate in a programme of service improvement projects focussing on medicines use: medicines waste, medicines
safety and improved outcomes.
- CCG (Clinical Commissioning Groups) 'Plan on a Page' Workshop. The goal is to identify opportunities for
collaboration and joint working, and to create the ideal environment for industry to build a programme of CCG Value
Propositions to include data mining, service design, and intelligent commissioning. Several successful projects have been
completed: neuropathic pain service and referral pathway; diabetes mapping and performance review.
- Industry Engagement Pathway. Local projects to facilitate NHS/industry collaboration.
10. 10
THE CHALLENGES OF THIS INNOVATIVE PARTNERSHIP
Innovation upsets the status quo and raises new issues, but thankfully the difficulties are not impossible to overcome.
One of the first issues is, of course, understanding “the other party”, in this case, the organisation of the NHS. Differences between
Joint Working projects, MEGs and sponsorship require an in-depth understanding of the workings of this historical institution.
Process complexity is another issue: the ten-step process takes quite some time to follow and the internal certification process within
the NHS or the industry requires a great amount of forethought and planning. All the while, project complexity varies in relation to the
scope of the project: single pharma vs. multi-pharma projects.
Finally, there is pressure to demonstrate results and showcase project outcomes for smaller projects before engaging the industry in
larger endeavours.
We are at the starting point of a long journey, and it is too soon to draw any conclusions. Suffice to say that change is necessary, that
the parties involved are motivated and optimistic, and that we can already point to some good examples of “Relationships
Transformation”, even though hard facts and figures are not yet available.
11. 11
- AN EXAMPLE FROM FRANCE –
A DISEASE MANAGEMENT PROGRAMME DESIGNED TO HELP PATIENTS
AND ALLEVIATE THE BURDEN ON SOCIAL SECURITY2
Speaking on behalf of France’s national, universal and compulsory health insurance provider (Caisse Nationale de l’Assurance Maladie
des Travailleurs Salariés, CNAMTS, also known as the Sécurité Sociale or Assurance Maladie) Emmanuel Gomez shed some light on a
recent venture to come to grips with the rising cost of chronic disease. The example presented, Sophia, is a unique project in France in
terms of its ambition and scope. Its development and outcomes are currently being followed with great interest by all the stakeholders
in the French healthcare system, with a view to possibly reproducing the process in other areas of medicine.
THE IMPORTANCE OF THE FRENCH NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE SYSTEM IS NOT TO BE
UNDERESTIMATED
The CNAMTS covers 85% of the French population, meaning it insures 58 million people and processes €150 bn. in reimbursement
costs per year (approx. half for hospital expenses and half for independent health professionals). It employs 70,000 professionals and
has over two thousand offices open to the public, with 35 million visits a year. It additionally receives over 200 million visits to its
website every year and deals with 150 million emails and 30 million phone calls.
The importance of this organisation can be explained by the manner in which its scope has broadened: initially tasked with providing
basic health cost reimbursements, it’s scope now encompasses global/national prevention measures in many health areas, specialised
support services for patients or health professionals, web services for citizens, health professionals or the health industry, or direct
health services, including disease management and the Sophia Programme.
2
Presented by Emmanuel Gomez, CNAM (Caisse Nationale de L’Assurance Maladie), Head of Disease Management Programmes.
12. 12
THE AIM OF THE SOPHIA PROGRAMME
In the general context of deficit control and budgetary restrictions, the focus is quite logically being placed on the two most prevalent
chronic diseases: diabetes and asthma, which respectively affect 3 million and 4 million people in France.
Sophia was launched to prevent complications, improve the state of health and quality of life of chronic patients, to reduce the
occurrence of complications and related healthcare expenditure.
The greatest constraint was that of overall cost: with an absence of specific financing (the service was to be absolutely free of charge,
under no restriction or obligation, as a national service), the cost had to be supported by the community. It took a long time for the
project to mature, as enquiries into the cost of existing programmes abroad led to the conclusion that all were above cost targets. The
challenge was to fine-tune a project within well-defined cost boundaries while remaining cost-efficient over time.
The pilot project for diabetes was launched in 2008 (with 145,000 members in 2011), and came into general use at the end of 2012.
Close to 2 million patients with diabetes were invited to subscribe to the programme.
The programme today covers both diabetes and asthma, and essentially promotes adherence through information, both general and
personalised, through printed material, personalised emails and mailshots, reference booklets, newsletters, e-coaching, a website, and
most importantly outbound and inbound phone calls with nurse health counsellors. The particularity of Sophia is that there are several
levels of support, depending on the state of health of each member.
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THE TANGIBLE RESULTS OF THE PROGRAMME SO FAR
The results of these national programmes have been assessed according to two sets of criteria: first, those related to the general
perception by the target public, popularity and membership levels; second, those related to actual adherence, medical outcomes and
public benefit.
1/ POPULARITY AND PERCEPTION OF THE SOPHIA PROGRAMME
As of today, over 500,000 patients have joined the programme, which represents over a quarter of the target, a very satisfactory
patient engagement level in light of how recently the programme was inaugurated.
Furthermore, the satisfaction levels regarding the pilot project, measured in 2011 by questionnaire on a sample of 1115 members by an
independent agency (IPSOS), yielded the following results:
- A very high level of satisfaction overall: 91% declared Sophia delivers good support and 89% would recommend it.
- 84% believed Sophia instigates behavioural change regarding their follow-up exams (70%), their diet (69%), and their
exercise (53%) and felt a great improvement
- The ongoing contact with nurses (practical advice, listening, and customised support) was highly appreciated (score 7.7/10)
The survey was also carried out on over 500 general practitioners through phone interviews:
- 79% believed it’s an excellent public initiative to help with the management of chronic disease
- 75% believed the programme is educational and informative, using materials that are well adapted to the patients
2/ ADHERENCE, MEDICAL OUTCOMES AND PUBLIC BENEFIT
These criteria were assessed by an independent medico-economic consulting firm, CEMKA-EVAL (period 2008-2009) and updated by
CNAMTS (period 2008-2011). They yielded the following results:
- A statistically significant improvement in relation to national guidelines for…
Eye checks (fundus): Sophia members have a 45% greater chance of getting follow-up care than non-
members
Electrocardiogram or visit to the cardiologist: Sophia members have a 30% greater chance of getting
follow-up care than non-members
3 doses of HbA1c: Sophia members have a 22% greater chance of getting a follow-up than non-members
Cholesterol check (or other lipid): Sophia members have a 21% greater chance of getting follow-up care
than non-members
- A decrease, over time, in the cost of ambulatory and in-patient care (members versus control group)
- Lower probability of being hospitalised for diabetes or related complications
- Net savings of 80 to 208 euros per year, per member (versus control group)
- Cost savings cover programme investment beyond 3 years of operation
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CHALLENGES FOR SOPHIA IN THE COMING YEARS
The CNAMTS has set the following objectives:
1. To reach the same results with final project as those obtained with the pilot project, i.e.: to enable a better understanding of
the disease; improve compliance with the check-up regimen; promote healthier lifestyles; register better HbA1C values and
blood pressure levels; induce lower costs for the community.
2. To attract more members. The aim is to reach 750,000 diabetic patients in 2017.
3. To develop partnerships with general practitioners.
4. To launch a similar service for asthmatic patients (pilot project in June 2014) and for heart failure (mid 2015).
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REDEFINING THE INDUSTRY’S RELATIONSHIP WITH THE PATIENT
Never until now has the motivation for the industry to enter into a direct relationship with the patient been so strong.
Historically, healthcare providers have always catered to their prescribers, health practitioners or organisations, ultimately under the
supervision of health authorities and social security systems. None of this has changed, only become more complex, with the
acknowledgement of the “patient factor”.
The patient is at the heart of therapy compliance and data production, both of which can ensure his/her health, and in parallel
contribute to reducing the financial burden on the community. The industry, as a result, pursues two distinct objectives: encouraging
compliance with therapy, and giving the patient expert help wherever he/she may be, through data collection, management, analysis,
and secure storage and archiving.
Regarding this issue, Yvoine McCourt
3
presented a few examples of integrated solutions in healthcare from Air Liquide, all of which
demonstrate positive health outcomes, as well as overall cost reduction at state level.
Olivier Croly
4
further explained the mechanisms of data sharing and how its generalisation should enable patient access to the
necessary expertise anywhere in the world, a 3.0 revolution in healthcare and a fundamental benefit to mankind.
3
Yvoine Mc Court is Head of Home Healthcare International Development at Air Liquide
4
Olivier Croly is VP and General Manager Europe of GE Healthcare IT
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HOME HEALTHCARE SERVICES AND INTEGRATED SOLUTIONS
THE WHY AND THE HOW
Home healthcare service has become an important issue, because chronic disease is a growing burden on healthcare systems around
the world. Home healthcare service is a powerful solution to control the rising cost of resources, both technical and human.
It also represents a significant relief to patients and their families, whose lives are considerably altered on a day-to-day basis,
sometimes over the course of a lifetime (diabetes type I).
Air Liquide’s Home Healthcare entities aims to support the patient’s transition from the hospital to the home in a seamless and smooth
process, ensuring conditions are in place to avoid further hospitalisations. Air Liquide Healthcare has been in home healthcare service
provision for about 20 years, and today it represents about 50% of its healthcare business: over 1 million patients benefit from its home
healthcare services.
EXAMPLES OF COPD (CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DISEASE) AND OBSTRUCTIVE
SLEEP APNEA
COPD is a perfect example of a chronic disease representing an important burden to patients and healthcare systems, with issues such
as compliance, long-term disability, frequent and lengthy hospitalisations, as well as indirect costs.
The disease can be summarised as follows:
Prevalence: 4-10% adults
Hospital admission frequency: 2 per patient per year
30-60 day readmission: 16-20%
Average length of stay: 4.5 – 16 days
Death rate: 41 per 100,000
Other example, issues of compliance can be demonstrated through the CPAP treatment for patients suffering from Obstructive Sleep
Apnea. When the patients are placed on CPAP (equipment to support respiratory effort), adherence to the treatment is not
guaranteed. In some markets, half the patients can have issues of non-compliance, which means they are not treated effectively.
Integrated solutions therefore target maximum adherence and retain compliance as a major criteria.
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THE CRITERIA OF INTEGRATED SOLUTIONS
Another important criteria is the reduction of hospitalisation frequency and duration, a factor of high cost to healthcare systems. The
solution in this case is, most often, the implementation of disease management programmes, as exemplified by Sophia in France.
Repoca, for example, has been initiated in Spain with the local Air Liquide Home Healthcare representative, Vitalaire. Repoca
is a six-month intense clinical and educational programme during which local teams work directly with patients. The results published
in 2012 show that, for COPD patients on oxygen therapy, the programme successfully reduced hospitalisation and expenditure by
about 80%. There is a cost, of course, to the additional service but it is very low when compared to the tremendous savings on
hospitalisation.
With the Valcronic project in Valencia, the various partners in this project (including AIR LIQUIDE Healthcare) intend to
demonstrate that by implementing an integrated solution, it can reduce the unplanned hospitalisations– the costliest type of
hospitalisation – of COPD patients. Today about 75% of the admissions are unplanned..
Subscribers and payers are, of course, increasingly interested in initiatives of this nature, which are substantially beneficial to the
patient as well as to the healthcare system.
WHY THE MOVE TO INTEGRATED SOLUTIONS IS INEVITABLE
Integrated solutions intend to provide better healthcare and economic outcomes, by:
Increasing compliance levels
Identifying high-risk patients
Reducing hospitalisation frequency
Shortening hospital stays
Managing severely ill patients
Improving patient quality of life
Coordinating care actors.
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- THE EXAMPLE OF SLEEP APNOEA -
ON THE GENERAL AND INDIVIDUAL BENEFIT OF INTEGRATED SOLUTIONS
For the last 15 years, Air Liquide Healthcare has been developing programmes in sleep apnoea, using coaching, education, face-to-face
information, as well as telephone support, in order to encourage patients to comply with their therapy, essentially by enabling them to
understand their illness and their treatment better.
In parallel to human support, it is developing and distributing technical devices that couple with the medical equipment and emit
signals on a very regular basis and provide critical data about the patient. This information is collected by Air Liquide Healthcare or can
be sent to the doctor or relevant clinical staff. Based on this data, Air Liquide Healthcare adapts the programmes to enhance
adherence on case-by-case basis.
The development of integrated solutions therefore means greater proximity to the patient, a much shorter response time, and a larger
scope of capabilities in our relationship with the prescriber looking after the patient.
Sleep apnoea impacts on cardio-vascular risks, and non-compliant CPAP (Continuous Positive Airway Pressure) patients face greater
risks of cardiovascular events (x4) and car accidents (x 5).
Support programmes to ensure compliance are therefore key to ensure:
Better health outcomes
Fewer complications
Savings on overall medical costs
There is a direct correlation between observance of treatment by CPAP, and overall medical savings, as observed in the table below
(French example):
The horizontal axis corresponds to the number of hours of use of the CPAP machine, and the vertical axis to the direct
related cost savings. Compliance is therefore as much an economic necessity as a requirement for the patients’ health, and integrated
solutions such as Home Healthcare address this strategic factor first and foremo
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- THE CASE FOR DATA SHARING -
NATIONAL OR WORLDWIDE ACCESS TO THE BEST MEDICAL EXPERTISE
As Olivier Croly
5
pointed out, the European healthcare market is undergoing transformational change under the combined forces of:
• Rising consumer demographics and chronic disease
• Governments struggling with growing costs
• Ongoing consolidation, providers driving for scale
• The development of integrated care
• The preference for precision medicine in a context of care standardisation
The only factor capable of helping the western world face these contradictory challenges today is the industrialisation/digitalisation of
healthcare. It is therefore no surprise that the rise of the “industrial Internet” has been so strong in healthcare.
This revolution is progressively transforming the industry-patient relationship, in the same way it has revolutionised every other aspect
of human development and economics.
The third stage after the industrial revolution and the Internet revolution, the “industrial Internet” revolution can be defined as
machine-based analytics helping human decision-making at every step, including, and most effectively here, in the field of healthcare.
This physics-based revolution involves deep domain expertise, gives preference to automation, and focuses on predictive analytics,
notably through algorithms.
This revolution, observed in every area of human activity begins with “intelligent” devices: communication is established between
devices, generating “intelligent systems”, with these systems ensuring “intelligent decision making”. The systems are subsequently
hard wired to systematically auto-optimise, and their development is fuelled by cost optimisation.
The healthcare industry, which has always been committed to innovation, is waging the same war against cost as every other sector in
order to deliver its own products and services to best effect. Since the collection and management of patient data are key factors in
this effort, it has naturally transformed the industry’s relationship with the patient.
5
Olivier Croly is VP and General Manager Europe of GE Healthcare IT.
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DATA IS THE GREATEST SOURCE OF SAVINGS: THE POWER OF 1 (1%)
Taking the example of the United States, it is estimated that connected machines and data could eliminate up to $150 bn. in waste
across industries. If we focus on healthcare exclusively, a mere 1% reduction in system inefficiency would represent approximately $63
bn. in savings over a period of 15 years. It’s all the more inspiring when we know it’s not just 1%, but several dozen percentages that are
within our reach.
The potential for savings is enormous, with the key enablers being software, new data storage methods, processing architectures and
R&D.
Studies conducted in the United States show that connecting machines and data can help address the sources of waste in healthcare
6
,
inefficient asset and resource utilisation
7
, variance in clinical decision making, and fragmented patient care as well as:
• Eliminate $750 bn. of waste across the healthcare system
• Prevent 98,000 medical errors each year to lower costs, reduce doctors’ insurance premiums and protect patients
• Avoid 75,000 deaths due to preventable medical errors every year
Applied to Europe, the same analysis would no doubt lead us to the same conclusions.
6
IOM Study, Best Care at Lower Cost: http://iom.edu/Reports/2012/Best-Care-at-Lower-Cost-The-Path-to-Continuously-Learning-
Health-Care-in-America/Press-Release-MR.aspx
7
IOM Study, To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System, Institute of Medicine, 1999:
http://www.iom.edu/~/media/Files/Report%20Files/1999/To-Err-is-
Human/To%20Err%20is%20Human%201999%20%20report%20brief.pdf
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THE IMPACT OF THE INDUSTRIAL INTERNET ON HEALTHCARE ORGANISATIONS
THE INDUSTRIAL INTERNET IS CHARACTERISED BY 3 FACTORS: INTELLIGENT MACHINES,
ADVANCED ANALYTICS, AND CONNECTED PEOPLE
Intelligent machines connect the world’s devices, sites (healthcare, industrial, leisure facilities, etc.), fleets and networks with advanced
sensors, controls and software applications. Advanced analytics combine the power of physics-based analytics, predictive algorithms,
automation and deep-domain expertise. Connected people, at work or on the move, support increasingly intelligent design,
operations, maintenance and higher quality service and safety.
INTELLIGENT MACHINES PRODUCE POSITIVE OUTCOMES
We can find evidence of positive outcomes in:
• Digital pathology/radiology
Example with propeller imaging: improves imaging in the case of difficult immobilisation (children, seniors) with radial
scanning through propellers, extrapolating data to improve algorithm, reducing exam repeat
• Dose reconstruction
Example of iterative reconstruction: ASiR, an application to lower the dose in CT applications
• Patient profiling
Example with PET patient profiling: helps adapt to breathing profile of patient, allows treatment planning with less radiation
and optimises treatment planning
• Asset management
Example of smart hanging protocols: use machine learning techniques to provide a simplified process for creating and
applying hanging protocols in a radiology workflow
DIGITAL PATHOLOGY ALONE IS A PERFECT EXAMPLE OF THE BENEFITS OF DIGITALISATION
In a context of a declining number of pathologists and an aging population with chronic diseases, digital pathology empowers
confident decisions in pathology. First, it enables a better and quicker diagnosis. Next, it unlocks the value of pathology data:
- It establishes information flow between pathology and clinicians
- It integrates pathology data into electronic patient records
- It centralises storage of diagnostic evidence
Finally, digital pathology optimises expertise and the pooling of resources:
- By integrating workloads across locations to facilitate sub-specialisation
- By delivering each case to the right pathologist, regardless of location
- By giving quicker access to sub-specialist consultations
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ADVANCED ANALYTICS PRODUCE POSITIVE OUTCOMES
The most commonly referenced areas for positive outcomes are:
• Asset performance
• Dose excellence
• Automated protocols
• Imaging management
CONNECTED PEOPLE PRODUCE POSITIVE OUTCOMES
The most commonly referenced areas for positive outcomes are:
• Collaborative clinician networks
• Intelligent workload management
• Health information
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REDEFINING THE INDUSTRY’S RELATIONSHIP WITH ITS CLIENTS
As Miguel Bernabeu
8
explained, every healthcare system in the Western world is struggling with aging populations. While advances
continue to be made in technology, patient expectations are rising and costs are spiralling.The critical task healthcare systems face
today, therefore, is to transform care delivery, in support of higher performance at a lower cost.
Today, healthcare systems are trying to address this catch 22 situation by applying pressure to reduce supplier prices and by
developing Health Economic Appraisals (e.g. Australian Femtosecond HE Appraisal). Health systems are therefore progressively
moving from activity-based funding models to patient outcome-based funding models.
Ophthalmology is a prime example of this phenomenon, as it has undergone significant innovation in recent years (Anti-VEGFs in
wAMD) placing a strain on the HC budget and eye clinics.In light of this situation, one major stakeholder in the ophtalmology industry
(Alcon) has transformed the go to market. Alcon’s market position and wide product portfolio presents new opportunities to
strategically partner with healthcare organisations. These strategic partnerships are expected to boost procedural volumes, open up
new revenue streams, and strengthen pricing power
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Miguel Bernabeu is Global Head of Market Access, Pricing and HEOR for ALCON Laboratories, Novartis group.
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- THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE BUSINESS MODEL –
THE NEW HEALTHCARE ECOSYSTEM WILL IMPACT BUSINESS
The healthcare system’s new approach will be outcome based, and will trigger the following transformations in business:
MedTech companies will be seeking new opportunities to differentiate their offering, depending on their degree of maturity or desire
to integrate vertically:
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- THE EXAMPLE OF ARIADNE –
ALCON’S PROJECT TO ADDRESS THE NEEDS OF HEALTHCARE PROVIDERS IN EUROPE
THE OBJECTIVE
In response to an evolving context, Alcon’s new business model is to change from a surgeon-oriented to a healthcare provider-centric
approach.
Today the go to market is surgeon-focused, with the result that Alcon can be providing to many surgeons within one hospital or
organisation. Development is based on multiple one-to-one commercial relationships, sparked by a transaction at one point in time.
The key selling point is the product itself, based on product merits and benefits. Alcon has developed a strong relationship with
surgeons, with cross-portfolio selling through EFAs. However there is no cross-selling among business units, and no recurring business
guaranteed.
Tomorrow, the approach is to be customer-centric, with healthcare providers (organisations, hospitals) as the main customers. The
product offering will therefore be complemented with tailored service offerings, with a broader scope of customer value in mind than
that of product superiority alone. This entails a partnership approach with Key Account Management (KAM), which should allow cross-
selling throughout different business units and collaboration across products and service lines.
The Ariadne pilot is to identify new opportunities for external collaboration in the rapidly transforming healthcare ecosystem in Europe
(UK, Germany, Spain, and Italy), in a 4-step process:
- Internal & external diagnostic
- Opportunity identification, prioritisation & selection of targets
- Elaboration of specific business models
- Definition of an action plan
THE UK EXAMPLE
The country situation in the ophthalmology sector is as follows:
– Cataract DRG has been reduced by 2-3% per annum for last 5 years
– Hospitals are under pressure to reduce costs and improve efficiency
– Alcon premium pricing position is under pressure due to cost containment measures
– Hospitals are competing for services under government policy
Alcon projects to leverage product dominance by offering additional and chargeable “bolt on” services to improve efficiency.
The service offering is a chargeable service, which collects both static and real-time data on the performance of a cataract service in
relation to the following criteria:
• Patient flow
• Resource utilisation
• Financial Health
• Patient Experience
The outputs are:
• A detailed service evaluation, including comparative benchmarking versus other services across key data
• A detailed set of recommendations for service improvements and estimated impact
• In collaboration with the client, the development of a remedial plan to address gaps and improve service
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Statistics in the UK show that there is potential for efficiency gain, with an existing average of 7 patients per surgical list.
There is a significant financial incentive for hospitals to improve efficiency, as an additional patient per list can have dramatic impact
on net profit: +67% from only 7 to 8 patients per surgical list:
THE SPANISH EXAMPLE
A wide variety of opportunities with public or private hospitals, autonomous regions, or insurance companies and chains of opticians
are in development. These include:
• Disease detection
• Patient flow improvements
• Surgical efficiency improvements
• Equipment optimisation and management
• Managed service agreements
THE EXAMPLE OF ASISA-GENERAL OPTICA-ALCON: A WIN WIN WIN
The Alcon proposition is to:
• Leverage the relationship with health insurance providers to implement patient marketing activities to drive demand for
contact lenses within optical chains
• Incorporate a health insurance marketing package into its offering for contact lenses to national opticians chains
The win for the health insurance provider:
Alcon supports the promotion of a unique loyalty scheme to offer a contact lens plan to protect and expand policy holder base
The win for the opticians’ chains:
A marketing campaign drives patient demand for their products, with 2 million health insurance policy holders becoming potential
customers
The win for Alcon: A strategic relationship with a health insurance provider and an optician’s chain, with mid-term opportunities to
further develop the relationship into Surgical and Retina.
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ENTERING AN ERA OF ACTIVE INDUSTRIAL PARTNERSHIPS
Necessary specialisation and deep-domain expertise are forcing industrial stakeholders to pool their competencies in order to take on
multidimensional and complex projects.
More specifically, the question of integrated solutions has become one of digitalisation and communication, and is consequently giving
rise to many technological/data management partnerships. Companies such as Air Liquide, Orange or GE are choosing to remain
within their core competencies, while continuing to deliver the best quality service to patients and prescribers, with the latest available
technologies. To this effect, they are intensifying and generalising their partnerships with each other and others, in a strategy that
emphasises their expertise and ensures the best possible use of technology and digital tools.
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EXAMPLES OF PARTNERSHIPS
IN THE AREA OF RISK IDENTIFICATION, HOME HEALTHCARE, AND COMPLIANCE
VALCRONIC (SPAIN)
Launched in Valencia, Spain, by Air Liquide, Valcronic is a risk identification programme to reduce hospitalisation. It is a regional
programme to stratify chronic patients by risk level and provide appropriate telemonitoring self-management. Today, the programme
encompasses 500 patients and 150 practitioners.
GECHRONIC (SPAIN)
Also an Air Liquide initiative, GECHRONIC is a disease management programme from hospital to home. The trial has begun on
approximately 500 patients. It is an integrated model of chronic disease management using home-patient monitoring to reduce
unplanned hospital re-admissions in multi-morbid high-risk patients.
ORANGE & JANSSEN INITIATIVE FOR MEDICAL COMPLIANCE (FRANCE, IN PROGRESS)
This initiative is based on a system designed to tackle the problem of medical compliance, through:
A text messaging solution to remind patients to take their treatment
Absence of cost for the patient
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- THE CASE FOR CONNECTED HEALTH CENTERS -
EXAMPLES OF PARTNERSHIPS
THE “REGION SANS FILM” SHARED MEDICAL IMAGING PROJECT (FRANCE)
This GE-Orange partnership and regional project is based on:
• A global solution, as it comprises files, hosting, storage, diagnostic assistance (PACS) and image management (RIS)
It is the only cloud computing based radiology project in France, which has now been operational for almost 5 years.
38 hospitals have hooked onto the system in order to share images. At the latest count: 4.7 million exams are stored on the
system.
They are accessible to all the connected hospitals, which may therefore share information. Once the information is extracted
from the hospital, it is readily available for anyone to use it. The patient’s GP has access to a portal where a summary of the
medical exam and other information is available.
• Online hosting of certified personal health data: in 2010, Orange Business Services became the first telecommunications
operator in France to be certified to host personal health information.
In France, the industry benefits from a law stating that to host personal medical data, one must apply for a specific
authorisation from the government. Usually pre-authorisations and red tape are a hindrance to market development, but in
this case, it is a fundamental protection, as it ensures privacy and preserves the medical confidentiality.
THE ANDRALTM TELE-HEMATOLOGY PROJECT (FRANCE)
This Orange project is dedicated to blood pathology, combining anatomo-cyto pathology and haematology.
Launched in October 2012, ANDRAL is the first operational platform for laboratory tele-expertise in France. It functions as a network
enabling laboratories to submit requests for opinions on a real-time basis.
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THE SMARTVIEWTM PROJECT FOR CARDIOLOGY (FRANCE)
A home hospitalisation and patient follow-up system, SMARTVIEW
TM
is a product/service from Orange and the SORIN GROUP
dedicated to cardiac patients. Thousands of patients today are equipped with Sorin equipment.
It is, in fact, a connected pacemaker, featuring:
• An end-to-end managed remote monitoring solution
• Electronic data transmission management from the device to the doctors in charge
The device is not connected to a mobile or GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications) network. The implant is entirely
autonomous. The objective of the network is to receive information daily from the implant and store it. It can be sent, if necessary, to
the physician in charge. Rhythmology and cardiac remote management are growing fields in France.
Orange takes responsibility not only for the conductivity, but for the architecture of the system, based on a small box, a home monitor,
which sits by the bedside to retrieve information from the implant.
In this, as in other connected health centre projects, it is not just a question of connectivity but of capturing and retrieving information,
managing the device(s), hosting the information and translating it into a viable form.
THE MY HEALTH LINE TM PROJECT (CAMEROON)
Orange and the Cameroon Minister of Health have just launched the country’s first health hotline.
A straightforward solution to the lack of medical services locally, making use of the country’s good GSM infrastructure to reach
individuals via their mobile phones, My Health Line is:
A text messaging solution to answer any citizen’s health questions
An answer sent by a health professional within one hour
A reduced cost for the patient/customer
The “hard-to-reach” corners of the country now have a quick answer to their medical problems, thanks to a solution provided by
technology.
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THE INDUSTRY’S PLEA TO GOVERNMENTS AND PUBLIC HEALTH DECISION
MAKERS: MAKE PROFESSIONALISED DATA MANAGEMENT POSSIBLE
It is a well-known fact in the world of healthcare that the quantity of medical information collected on the planet doubles every nine
months. While the worldwide population is growing at a comparatively slow rate, the explosion of information relative to these
individuals is following an exponential curve. Thierry Zylberberg
9
made the case that the future of healthcare systems lies first and
foremost in the efficient management of this data.
9
Thierry Zylberberg is Executive Vice President of the Orange Group and General Manager of Orange Healthcare.
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DATA IS AT THE HEART OF MEDECINE
It has always been the case, but information, today, is increasingly digitalised. The evolution has been surprisingly slow nonetheless
and a significant part of the medical information produced is still circulating from professional to professional in a manual or physical
form. Professionals’ communication may have switched from letters to emails for the most part but there haven’t been many efforts to
develop collaborative tools. Furthermore, a survey of this data reveals that the process and management of medical data is not yet
organised globally in any way.
This discrepancy is already strongly regrettable at the level of an individual patient having to collect, centralise and safeguard his/her
own information. It’s an even greater waste on the level of global organisation. Data is not only useful locally. It’s also an exceptional
management tool: it's a way of measuring outcomes, the efficiency of treatments and of public policies, and steering investments and
research for the future.
Yes, it is possible to find “islands” of managed data today, but there is no systematic global management of data, as we speak, at a
regional level or even local level. If we take the example of France, even at the level of a single hospital, it is still very difficult to obtain
a condensed catalogue of any medical issue. Each department has its own nomenclatures, parameters, and method of analysing and
organising data. As a result, efficient healthcare today can be summed up in one sentence: efficient data management.
Today, there is no available infrastructure for data management because the data is organised as in an archipelago: it's an island here
and island there, and never interconnected. The mission of Orange Healthcare, a telecom and IT company, is to connect these various
dots: to transfer information from point A to point B, and maybe store it in between. Orange is not planning to enter new markets or
provide competencies other than those of its core business. That is the reason for its multiple partnerships in healthcare: with GE, with
Air Liquide, and with others.
THE FORMS OF COMMUNICATION AND THE DATA COLLECTED
In healthcare, information generally follows a circular, iterative pathway:
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Data is therefore as much a management tool (to measure, analyse, manage quality and security) as it is a clinical tool (to coordinate,
manage the care journey, share patient information data, etc.). Efficient healthcare requires data management and interconnectivity:
the healthcare eco-system will therefore become increasingly dependent on partners such as Orange, integrators and providers of
end-to-end solutions.
Orange, for example, provides medical data suppliers the following services:
collection
transfer
hosting
restitution
analysis (BI, big data)
It therefore acts to bridge the gap between HCP, modalities and patients, and medical software and devices.
Information can be delivered between professionals within a professional environment, from a patient to a professional (remote
healthcare monitoring services of an individual patient on a one-to-one basis) or directly to the patient (preventive services).
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CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE INDUSTRY TODAY
Below we list four critical or key success factors that have been identified by the healthcare industry today. These factors pose
challenges but also represent wide-ranging opportunities for the future of the industry.
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1/ INTEROPERABILITY AND SCALABILITY
The common concern of all healthcare professionals today, and therefore of their service providers, is the question of information and
data management, as discussed earlier.
Ensuring data production, circulation, and storage means ensuring connectivity between devices and databases. At the core of the
project of intelligent objects and systems is the question of the information flow; it must be seamless, robust, permanent and secure.
It is a technical challenge, but also an opportunity to unleash the potential value of partnerships in applied sciences and technical
development. The possibilities are endless; the motivation is there, and the first projects in place in Europe are encouraging.
Today, these initiatives are spontaneously pulling together complementary expertise, with a view to alleviating the burden of an aging
population on society and the prevalence of chronic disease, as well as to lighten the burden of the illness upon the patient.
The current projects are nonetheless too limited in breadth and depth to draw conclusions for the future. There remains the
fundamental question of scalability: can these projects and interconnectivity grow, from local to regional, national and global scales
without losing in efficiency, quality and security?
2/ DATA OVERFLOW FOR HEALTH PROFESSIONALS
With the production of data growing exponentially, it will become harder than ever for health professionals to work in confidence, to
find the right information at the right moment, and share it with discernment and accuracy. The risk of confusion is great, all the
greater when the existing information silos start interconnecting and sharing information, which is the logical, practical and inevitable
evolution of information systems, in whichever field they may operate.
For the time being, the approach is bottom-up, context-generated, emerging from localised projects and information silos, but the
need for a top-down approach to health data management, at a national or international level, is clearly emerging as a necessity. The
stakeholders of healthcare systems in Europe are united in their plea to public decision makers and governments: create an
information supra-structure, define the infrastructure and protocols, and invest in data management tools.
This please help us help you message is one of confidence in the future, in the necessary, but seemingly impossible equation: cost-
cutting while upgrading quality.
3/ REIMBURSEMENTS AND REGULATIONS
This issue relates directly to the business model of healthcare providers, forever inextricably linked to the solvability of healthcare
systems and to the level of government involvement in the modernisation of processes. For any fundamental transformations to take
place, a financial architecture and regulatory backdrop must be devised that will give a strong incentive for change for all the
stakeholders from the patient, to the healthcare provider, to any third parties involved. This is a complex machinery that has to be
regularly oiled, and sometimes drastically transformed in a wilful manner: free market mechanisms cannot apply here.
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4/ THE BOOM OF CONNECTED MEDICAL DEVICES
In this paper we have studied the devices that are a part of integrated services in patient pathways and delivered or serviced by
healthcare providers. We should not ignore the ones that are being actively developed and commercialised by private tech companies
on a pure B2C basis, and sold to perfectly healthy individuals. From connected wristbands and T-shirts to heart, diet or sleep monitors
and intelligent toothbrushes, the amount of data generated is exploding.
The risk is to progressively confuse what could be considered personal data with proper medical data, and confusing patient care
protocols with gadgets for a healthier lifestyle. Obviously, the same rules for security and storage should not apply.
Connecting these mass-market devices is probably the next stage of development, wherein the frontier with true medical devices will
have to be either reinstated, or on the contrary, erased, with great care for the questions of robustness, security, privacy, and storage.
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CONCLUSIONS
Unravelling the questions raised by data management…
The unanimous conclusion of the speakers concerning the future of medicine was the only too familiar issue of data management.
If measuring outcomes is the new diktat of the market, then the unavoidable questions once again rise to the surface:
• Exactly which data outcomes are we looking to monitor? Which data is actually statistically relevant?
• Are governments and public decision makers going to act and make rational choices based upon this data (or only look for a
short-term, cost-cutting bonanza)?
• Exactly by what means should the industry attempt to collect this data?
• How are the industry and healthcare systems to ensure privacy or data protection?
• Should healthcare systems give precedence to efficiency (and therefore data sharing) or to privacy (and therefore data
protection)?
• Can this personal medical data, collected by the public sector, be sold to the private sector, or shared for R&D purposes?
• If so, in which specific contexts? At under what conditions?
• Should patients who are voluntarily non-compliant be given the benefit of public health services, when the cost is so high?
• Should the payer, and ultimately the community, pay for a service or a product, which is ultimately not even used?
• In the opt-in/opt-out dilemma, should the patients who refuse to have their data collected pay the subsequent cost?
Strong control by a legitimate third party
European governments now all believe in open data. The essential problem individuals have with data collection anywhere in the
world is one of trust. If data is to be collected by a private company, the suspicion that this data will be sold for a profit at some point
is impossible to dismiss. Therefore, any data collection in the future will have to entail strong control by a third party bearing the trust
of the general public.
Data management, a cultural question?
The more we speak of globalisation, the more cultural questions come to the fore. The example of New Zealanders who fully accept
the automatic disclosure of their personal medical history with a view to facilitating treatment, tracked with the help of their social
security number alone, calls for reflection.
An ethical question as much as it is one of policy making, open data presents some strong advantages in emergency situations, but
calls for strong government control to deter profit seekers and enforce ethical behaviour. However, as every culture has a different
definition of ethics, the debate on data collection and security is not going to be solved on a global level for some time to come.
Future discussions
The industry agrees that future discussions should address these questions:
• What will the medicine of the future look like?
• What use should we make of all the data collected?
• What type of joint initiatives could be put in place?
• What kind of outcomes do we want to measure?
• What will be the new boundaries between public and private approaches?
• Who might the new stakeholders be?
• What could the next new business model be for healthcare industries?
The above questions will be discussed at our next event in 2015. You are welcome to join us!
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