Jeremy Barbera's top digital trends we can see in the healthcare industry this upcoming year.

1. 3 Digital Healthcare
Trends That We Can
Expect To See More Of
In 2017
J E R E M Y B A R B E R A

2. The Contents
Clinical Trials01
Digital Monitoring02
Consumer Use of Digital Health
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3. Clinical Trials
Medical devices can be used to monitor the patients
who are participants in clinical trials for new drugs and
other therapies. Pharmaceutical companies rarely have
the ability to monitor trial participants on a 24-hour
basis. If electronic data can be sent via devices around
the clock, researchers will be able to come to
conclusions much sooner. According to a 2016 survey by
digital device enterprise Validic, devices are being used
more and more for clinical trial data collection. When
data is generated by patients and streamed directly to
clinical trial managers in real time, the information is
much more accurate than it would be if patients visited
periodically and relied on memories.

4. Digital Monitoring
Wearables are able to monitor aspects of a patient’s
health like blood pressure, blood sugar levels, weight,
mediation and levels of activity. When a patient uses
any kind of wearable, whether it is a small device or a
patch, a steady stream of data can be sent to
healthcare providers and used to evaluate a patient.
Recent research shows that in 2015, the medical device
industry market totalled approximately $5.1 billion, and
it will probably triple by 2020 and more healthcare
providers will begin to take the concept on board.

5. Consumer Use of
Digital Health
Consumers are gaining awareness of the need to
monitor their own health to prevent future health
conditions. Digital technology is being used in a much
more abundant way than it was before. In 2016, a
venture that invests in health-related startups called
Rock Health released its annual survey about summer
trends in healthcare. The survey found that 56 percent
of respondents were utilizing at least three types of
digital health, a huge increase from 19 percent in 2015.

6. Conclusion
Only 20 percent of respondents said they
did not use any digital health technology.
Of the respondents, 10 percent of them
were considered avid users of digital
health technologies such as telemedicine,
wearables, electronic access to medical
records and more. Unsurprisingly,
millennials dominate the digital health
market. In a constantly changing world,
technology is truly altering the healthcare
market for the better. Advances in digital
healthcare changing the world, and we
can expect this to continue in 2017.