There is a 21st century paradigm shift underway to transform the healthcare system because of three megatrends,
- a rapidly ageing global population,
- western societies are losing the fight against chronic diseases, and
- the emergence of new technologies such as wearables, are converging as consumers demand a better quality of life.
Because of these trends, healthcare systems are now being financially strained, and hence changing their focus from treating people when they become ill to seeking more personalised, preventative healthcare solutions with the following characteristics:
- PREVENTATIVE - moving from sickness based treatments to prevention by improving a person’s health and well-being.
- PERSONALISED -by analysing the interaction between a person’s genomic make-up with their nutrition, exercise and lifestyle choices, certain predispositions and susceptibilities to many health-related issues could be potentially avoided.
- PRO-ACTIVE - a patient-centred model of healthcare results in patients being more empowered and responsible for their own wellbeing.
New technologies, such as mobile and wearables devices and digital diagnostics are starting to leverage the various streams of health data made possible by the ‘connected consumer’ to create powerful healthcare IT platforms that move beyond the current trendy apps and wearables, such as found in the fitness industry. Individuals now can understand and take control of their health and wellbeing by easily monitoring health data using reliable mobile and wearable devices, and then wirelessly sending this health information in real time to secure IT platforms.
3P Healthcare’s goal is to develop a new preventative healthcare model for improving cardio-metabolic risk assessment and management, using low cost biomarkers available from mobile and wearable devices, and an IT platform, for better patient outcomes and to reduce healthcare costs.