Disruptive Innovation in Dentistry: What It Is and What Could Be Next

2020 ◽  
pp. 002203452097877
Author(s):  
T. Joda ◽  
A.W.K. Yeung ◽  
K. Hung ◽  
N.U. Zitzmann ◽  
M.M. Bornstein
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Care Service ◽  
Scientific Evidence ◽  
Health Care Service ◽  
Treatment Strategies ◽  
Cost Benefit ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Disruptive Innovation ◽  
Novel Technologies ◽  
Ethical Implications

Dentistry is a technically oriented profession, and the health care sector is significantly influenced by the ubiquitous trend of digitalization. Some of these digital developments have the potential to result in disruptive changes for dental practice, while others may turn out to be just a pipedream. This Discovery! essay focuses on innovations built on artificial intelligence (AI) as the center-technology influencing 1) dental eHealth data management, 2) clinical and technical health care applications, and 3) services and operations. AI systems enable personalized dental medicine workflows by analyzing all eHealth data gathered from an individual patient. Besides dental-specific data, this also includes genomic, proteomic, and metabolomic information and therefore facilitates optimized and personalized treatment strategies and risk management. Based on the power of AI, the triangular frame of “data”/“health care”/“service” is supplemented by technological advancements in the field of social media, Internet of things, augmented and virtual reality, rapid prototyping, and intraoral optical scanning as well as teledentistry. Innovation continues to be critical to tackle dental problems until its routine implementation based on sound scientific evidence. Novel technologies must be viewed critically in relation to the cost-benefit ratio and the ethical implications of a misleading diagnosis or treatment produced by AI algorithms. Highly sensitive eHealth data must be handled responsibly to enable the immense benefits of these technologies to be realized for society. The focus on patient-centered research and the development of personalized dental medicine have the potential to improve individual and public health, as well as clarify the interconnectivity of disease in a more cost-effective way.

scholarly journals Digitalization as an Engine for Change? Building a Vision Pathway towards a Sustainable Health Care System by Using the MLP and Health Economic Decision Modelling

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (23) ◽  
pp. 13007
Author(s):  
Johanna Leväsluoto ◽  
Johanna Kohl ◽  
Anton Sigfrids ◽  
Jussi Pihlajamäki ◽  
Janne Martikainen
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Economic ◽  
Care Service ◽  
Health Care Service ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Policy Action ◽  
Potential Health ◽  
Economic Decision ◽  
Decision Modelling ◽  
The Impact

Grand social challenges, such as type 2 diabetes (T2D), are increasing, which creates sustainability problems for health care service systems. To reduce socio-economic burdens, changes are required in the socio-technical system. However, there is an uncertainty of the most cost-effective policy action that can create sustainability while providing health benefits. To find potential solutions to these challenges, the multi-level perspective (MLP) and health economic decision modelling was used to study socio-technical change and project potential health economic consequences of different scenarios. The study focuses on creating a vision pathway for reducing T2D in Finland. In total, 23 interviews were carried out and the results were analyzed utilizing the MLP model. As a result, five themes towards prevention of T2D were identified. Digitalization was found to be a cross-cutting theme for preventing T2D and was thus taken as the object of study and the main focus of this paper. As a result, this paper reports on the opportunities and barriers for using digital tools in a transition towards T2D prevention. A health economic decision modelling revealed that the highest expected savings could be obtained by prioritizing prevention programs based on T2D risk. Finally, the model was converted into a web-based online tool by combining vision pathway, transition-focused storylines and forward-looking health economic scenario analysis to give the policy makers an overall picture of the needed societal changes and support the impact assessment of alternative policies in a case of T2D prevention in Finland.

St Christopher's and the Future

2008 ◽  
Vol 56 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-75 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara Monroe ◽  
Penny Hansford ◽  
Malcolm Payne ◽  
Nigel Sykes
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
End Of Life ◽  
End Of Life Care ◽  
Health Care Services ◽  
Care Service ◽  
Health Care Service ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Patient Choice ◽  
Life Care ◽  
Effective Models

The founding vision of St Christopher's Hospice was based on a recognition that permeating mainstream health care services would be essential and an emphasis on an adaptable philosophy rather than a building. Today, demographic and disease related changes mean that need and demand for end-of-life care will inevitably outstrip professional and financial resource. Hospices must engage with the development of cost-effective models of service delivery and rational planning. Only partnership working with the National Health Service, care homes, and others will ensure that appropriate care is available to everyone wherever the bed in which they die, regardless of diagnosis. Only collaboration and active engagement will ensure that future strategy in end-of-life care retains the original insight that its focus rightly includes not only patients but also the social context that will be affected by their death. Cost and patient choice dictate an emphasis on care at home. Health-promoting, public education and family-focused strategies will be essential. At a pivotal moment for the delivery of health care generally, hospices can play a vital part by marrying the role of “insistent conscience” of the health care service with continued cost-effective clinical innovation.

Automation in Healthcare Services

2022 ◽  
pp. 285-303
Author(s):  
Vijay Prakash Gupta ◽  
Amit Kumar Arora
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Service Industry ◽  
Care Service ◽  
Health Care Service ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Healthcare Services ◽  
Revolutionary Change ◽  
Patient Health ◽  
Human Fatigue ◽  
Day To Day Operations

The health care service industry (also known as a medical industry) is an industry that is comprised of the services related to the safeguarding or enhancement of patient health or provides services to treat patients with medicinal, protective, rehabilitative, and analgesic care. For the last two decades, it has been seen that there are drastic changes in healthcare services through automation, digitalization, technological innovation, and communication. Automation has made a revolutionary change in the healthcare industry and allowed for it to be more cost-effective for the industry to run day-to-day operations. Automation-driven health care activities are free from human fatigue and error, so they can help out to provide consistency, accuracy, and potentially lead to a reduction in patient complications, infections, and deaths. Besides, automation can help hospitals, professionals, and doctors for cost-reduction measures and increased efficiency as part of their monetary benefits.

Novel implementation of IoT based non-invasive sensor system for real-time monitoring of intravenous fluid level for assistive e-healthcare

Circuit World ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
pp. 109-123 ◽  
Author(s):  
Partha Pratim Ray ◽  
Nishant Thapa ◽  
Dinesh Dash ◽  
Debashis De
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Health Care Services ◽  
Care Service ◽  
Health Care Service ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Sensor System ◽  
Fluid Level ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Non Invasive

Purpose The purpose of the study is to design and develop an pervasive and smart Internet of Things (IoT)-based sensor system to monitor he real-time intravenous (IV) fluid bag level. Design/methodology/approach This paper investigates such issue and performs several experiments to develop a non-invasive, semi-automatic system to monitor IoT-based IV fluid level in real-time. Findings The outcome of this study is a prototype hardware that includes an ESP8266 based embedded Web server to disseminate the fluid exhaust status flag to its connected users. Nurses can get the prompt intimation about the status of IV fluid bag whether it is about to get empty. Research limitations/implications IoT is the backbone of the proposed system. Multi-master system need to be studied in future. Practical implications Non-invasive and real-time IoT-based novel technique is developed with power-efficient and cost-effective pervasive sensors. Social implications This is applicable for pervasive and assistive e-health-care services by care givers and medical professionals. Originality/value The deployed system is controlled by ATtiny85 with help of LM35 temperature sensor. The results show a promising future of the proposed development in enhancing IoT-based smart health-care service in the coming days.

Automation in Healthcare Services

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Vijay Prakash Gupta ◽  
Amit Kumar Arora
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Service Industry ◽  
Care Service ◽  
Health Care Service ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Healthcare Services ◽  
Revolutionary Change ◽  
Patient Health ◽  
Human Fatigue ◽  
Day To Day Operations

The health care service industry (also known as a medical industry) is an industry that is comprised of the services related to the safeguarding or enhancement of patient health or provides services to treat patients with medicinal, protective, rehabilitative, and analgesic care. For the last two decades, it has been seen that there are drastic changes in healthcare services through automation, digitalization, technological innovation, and communication. Automation has made a revolutionary change in the healthcare industry and allowed for it to be more cost-effective for the industry to run day-to-day operations. Automation-driven health care activities are free from human fatigue and error, so they can help out to provide consistency, accuracy, and potentially lead to a reduction in patient complications, infections, and deaths. Besides, automation can help hospitals, professionals, and doctors for cost-reduction measures and increased efficiency as part of their monetary benefits.

The Great Awakening - Digitalization in Dental Healthcare during the pandemic COVID-19

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (SPL1) ◽  
pp. 380-384
Author(s):  
Priyanka Paul Madhu ◽  
Yojana Patil ◽  
Aishwarya Rajesh Shinde ◽  
Sangeeta Kumar ◽  
Pratik Phansopkar
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Task Force ◽  
Care Service ◽  
Health Care Service ◽  
Care Facility ◽  
Health Care Facility ◽  
Health Care Facilities ◽  
World Health ◽  
Record System ◽  
The World

disease in 2019, also called COVID-19, which has been widely spread worldwide had given rise to a pandemic situation. The public health emergency of international concern declared the agent as the (SARS-CoV-2) the severe acute respiratory syndrome and the World Health Organization had activated significant surveillance to prevent the spread of this infection across the world. Taking into the account about the rigorousness of COVID-19, and in the spark of the enormous dedication of several dental associations, it is essential to be enlightened with the recommendations to supervise dental patients and prevent any of education to the dental graduates due to institutional closure. One of the approaching expertise that combines technology, communications and health care facilities are to refine patient care, it’s at the cutting edge of the present technological switch in medicine and applied sciences. Dentistry has been improved by cloud technology which has refined and implemented various methods to upgrade electronic health record system, educational projects, social network and patient communication. Technology has immensely saved the world. Economically and has created an institutional task force to uplift the health care service during the COVID 19 pandemic crisis. Hence, the pandemic has struck an awakening of the practice of informatics in a health care facility which should be implemented and updated at the highest priority.

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