Abstract
Abstract The effectiveness, efficiency, availability, agility, and equality of global healthcare systems are in question. The COVID-19 pandemic have further highlighted some of these issues and also shown that healthcare provision is in many parts of the world paternalistic, nimble, and often governed too extensively by revenue and profit motivations. The 4th industrial revolution - the machine learning age - with data gathering, analysis, optimisation, and delivery changes has not yet reached Healthcare / Health provision. We are still treating patients when they are sick rather then to use advanced sensors, data analytics, machine learning, genetic information, and other exponential technologies to prevent people from becoming patients or to help and support a clinicians decision. We are trying to optimise and improve traditional medicine (incremental innovation) rather than to use technologies to find new medical and clinical approaches (disruptive innovation). Education of future stakeholders from the clinical and from the technology side has not been updated to Health 4.0 demands and the needed 21st century skills. This paper presents a novel proposal for a university and innovation lab based interdisciplinary Master education of HealthTEC innovation designers.
Highlights
There are significant challenges in present and future global healthcare delivery
Healthcare 4.0 with a focus on prevention / early detection and pro-active therapy will employ exponential technologies (AI, Big Data, Sensor Technology, Synthetic Biology, Robotics, 3D Printing, ...) that will surely lead to significant changes in the way we experience and deliver healthcare where an empowered patient will play a more and more important role. [1,2,3]
In the coming years/decades we will experience a shift from SICKCARE to HEALTHCARE to HEALTH, with more of the health related monitoring and evaluation done in a homecare setting and a much larger focus on prevention made possible by the upcoming technology developments
Summary
There are significant challenges in present and future global healthcare delivery. Some countries have abundant services, but are stuck with a rather nimble and expensive system that focuses on incremental innovations. In the coming years/decades we will experience a shift from SICKCARE to HEALTHCARE to HEALTH, with more of the health related monitoring and evaluation done in a homecare setting and a much larger focus on prevention (including physical exercise, food, mental health training, and many more) made possible by the upcoming technology developments This will lead to a reorganisation of healthcare delivery and workflows. Health innovation needs to be based on meaningful solutions that solve an identified and meaningful problem, that can include availability, excessive cost, or difficult handling These problems can be regionally different based on the delivery setup and can be based on issues related to inequalities as shown in diagnostic and treatment availabilities and available funds to pay for these services. Such an interdisciplinary educational setup covering technical, science, economics, and clinical disciplines (in a university represented by faculties) is most likely a difficult and frustrating undertaking considering the relatively slow and nimble processes of making decisions in universities and with respect to changing teaching curricula
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