Year: 2023 | Month: December | Volume 10 | Issue 1&2
Current Status and Potential of Health Care with Technology- Health care through the use of PHR
Katsuhiro Nakagawa
DOI:10.30954/2348-7437.1.2023.4
Abstract:
Currently, “improving the squeeze on healthcare costs” and “extending healthy life expectancy” are major themes in many countries around the world. Worldwide, healthcare costs have continued to rise, finally
exceeding US$6.5 trillion in 2012. This is due to the increase in the rate of medical and long-term care visits caused by the aging of the world population. In order to reduce medical costs, it is necessary for Each individual to manage his or her own health and monitor his or her own physical condition, thereby
extending healthy life expectancy and reducing unnecessary medical visits. The effective way to achieve
this is to manage health through personal health records (PHR), which is currently attracting a great deal
of attention in the healthcare market, and is a field that many companies are focusing their attention on.
The secondary use of a variety of time-series data related to individuals in industry and academia will
accelerate efforts to elucidate factors that contribute to the onset and severity of diseases and to search for
biomarkers that contribute to patient stratification, thereby enabling the efficient and effective discovery of
new evidence that will lead to prevention, early diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis. This will accelerate
the search for biomarkers that can contribute to prevention, early diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis.
In particular, the pharmaceutical industry is expected to contribute to the higher quality of medicine and
healthcare through the discovery of drug targets and the development of new solutions that contribute to
preventive and preemptive medicine. This study investigates the impact of PHRs on extending healthy
life expectancy and reducing healthcare costs, as well as the status of PHR diffusion and its challenges
in the world.
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