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医疗保健的未来:预防性、个性化及精准化

October 01, 2018

Global

October 01, 2018

Global
Rashmi Dalai

Contributor

Rashmi started her career on Wall Street with time spent in both convertible bonds sales and trading at Goldman Sachs and structured derivative products at Lehman Brothers. She left to form her own healthcare consulting practice, and spent over a decade advising a wide range of clients from large university hospitals to start-ups on business and financial strategies. Her role included taking interim COO and CFO positions for clients managing periods of high growth or other business transitions.

In 2007, she began splitting her time between the US and Asia (China, Indonesia, and Singapore) and expanded her consulting business to include advisory on business communications strategies and global thought leadership. Prior to joining The Economist Group, she was Head of Strategic Planning at Weber Shandwick, a global communications and PR firm, in Singapore.

Rashmi holds a Bachelors in International Affairs from Johns Hopkins University and a Masters in International Affairs from Columbia University with a concentration in International Finance and Banking. 

富有和经常全球旅行的人的医疗习惯可以为先进医疗科技融入人们生活的方式提供范例,也可能为科技在未来的广泛采用做下铺垫。为探究这种现象,经济学人智库(The Economist Intelligence Unit/EIU)调查了亚洲、中东及非洲快速发展地区的480位高净值人士(high-net-worth individuals, HNWIs),以探究他们现在的医疗习惯可能会如何推动社会整体上的突破。

数据显示,医疗保健的未来将更加具有预防性、个性化以及精准。同时未来也将不那么专注于治疗,而是更多关注定制个性化生活方式,改变生活习惯以管理个人健康风险、预防疾病。

很多现在的创新都在稳步地推动着这种改变。新的科技正在以前所未有的规模生产着生物特征数据,手机应用、基因检测以及先进的筛查技术只是其中的一部分。大数据分析和人工智能(artificial intelligence, AI)正在运用大量的信息为医护人员及患者提供更深入的分析洞察,以帮助他们更好地设定健康目标及衡量进展。当罹患疾病时,精准医疗、免疫学以及 3D 打印技术方面的突破也为更加个性化的治疗创造了可能。

然而,当医疗科技从有限的运用领域中走向普罗大众时,它们的效用及潜力可能会受到遗留系统、道德争议以及实用性方面的阻碍。

什么因素会阻碍未来科技但可推动其他方面的发展?这是为什么?现在的哪种科学技术最有可能在近期发挥作用并影响深远?它们将如何被采用,又将如何最终被运用到每天的健康护理中?

这些都是将要在由渣打银行(Standard Chartered Bank)赞助的“更美好的生活突破”系列第三部分《医疗保健的未来:预防性、个性化及精准化》中探究的问题。

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