| |December 20179a doctor when we have symptoms like cough, flu, fever or aches which is a reactive approach to healthcare. With wearables, we are moving towards a proactive approach, where these devices give us enough data to predict an imminent disease. Athletes today have sensors in their shoes which monitor their overall feet and body health and provide early signs of health issue. Data collected in this way are sent in real time to the coach and physiotherapist who take adequate proactive steps to prevent any long term injury to the sports person. Digitised medicine dispensers end alerts to the doctor if the patient has missed a critically needed dose. They can also alert the nearby pharmacy to replenish stocks as soon as medicines reach a re-order point.Healthcare professionals can capture health data and establish a pattern to see if there are commonalities and health risks between groups based on race, ethnicity, location, gender, and implement targeted health care programs. Patients are becoming more and more aware of their health and taking the necessary steps to live a healthy life. Insurance companies can leverage this data to devise specific insurance plans based on individual digital health prints. That way an individual does not have to buy a general plan and can ask for a personalized plan which could also be more cost effective. Together all this can give an overall cost advantage to a health care program. Imagine a tomorrow, where a digital chip can be injected into the body to measure your hourly calorie intake; fat and sugar content in the body; and in real time advise you to eat or not to eat any more. Imagine if a person with diabetes has a digital chip implanted in his or her teeth which can immediately check if the person is eating sugar and intervene in such a way that the person either spits out the food or fails to swallow it. Are you already imagining the power of a Digital Health Ecosystem? If you are, then you already know that the future is here and coming. With the rapid progress we are making in healthcare, science and technology, it is quite likely that the world will be very different tomorrow
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