Transforming everyday health, one app at a time

Transforming everyday health, one app at a time unknown

Patients, even those with serious conditions, can be empowered to have more control over their health through a combination of monitoring, awareness and diagnosis along with education, treatment and prevention.

“With our digital solutions, we are able to help improve health outcomes for patients,” says Timothy Broke-Smith, vice-president of global pharma partnerships at Huma. “We accelerate the optimization of treatment choices and the switching of treatments so that you end up getting the right products to the right patients at the right time.”

Huma, a digital health care company delivering remote patient-monitoring solutions, employs its technology on the digital devices that surround us — such as mobile phones and smartwatches — to provide near real-time data that report novel digital biomarkers of change in disease.

These solutions offer personalized and adaptive direction on treatment interventions. They use processed input data, which include novel AI-driven algorithms that employ robust and quality data.

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“This technology means you can detect when somebody is at risk of a very serious event and proactively get them into hospital when required,” Broke-Smith says.

Huma has also developed a novel algorithm that performs a cardiovascular risk assessment. It can diagnose in only three minutes whether a person is at low or high risk of developing cardiovascular events in the next 10 years.

Patients using Huma during the COVID-19 pandemic had a mortality rate of three to four times lower than those who did not use the technology,^[1] and according to a U.K. study 88 percent of people identified by the platform as being in a deteriorating condition had their cardiac operation dates brought forward.^[2]

This technology also brings benefits to medical institutions. Hospitals using Huma’s platform can reduce readmission rates by more than 30 percent and almost double clinical capacity^[3].

“By delivering remote management solutions, you’re effectively saving those bed days, those in-clinic visits, until the patients really need it,” says Broke-Smith.

“At the same time, we’re finding novel ways of detecting diseases or their progression so we can improve the accessibility of health care and reach of delivery of that health care around the world.”

Digital health is already changing the lives of patients — and it’s only the beginning.

Technological advancements have generated a wave of new digital products such as diagnostics, apps and therapeutics. These mean people can take greater control of their own health by enabling more informed choices based on personal insights and novel delivery mechanisms.

To unlock the benefits of continued advancements in digital health, all stakeholders should work together to build a forward-looking and trusted framework that can foster such advancements.

Access to health data for health care delivery and research purposes — the fuel of these leaps in innovation — must be enabled, along with international data flows that adhere to all necessary privacy measures.

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References:

^[1]An Outpatient Management Strategy Using a Coronataxi Digital Early Warning System Reduces Coronavirus Disease 2019 Mortality

^[2] Implementation of a mHealth solution to remotely monitor patients on a cardiac surgical waiting list: service evaluation | JAMIA Open | Oxford Academic (oup.com);

^[3] NHS Kent, Surrey, Sussex Health Science Network, Evaluation Report, October 2020