João Seabra is the director-general to the western regions of Europe and Africa Siemens Healthineers. Your position is the management of the business of the company in several countries in these regions (such as Portugal, for example) and a billing of thousands of millions of euros that comes from an area of “extensive growth,” said the Portuguese in an interview with the TeK, this Wednesday, in London.
as almost in all other sectors, the technology is in line with the health to make it more efficient, in this case, in the treatments that are applied to the patients and the procedures that allow the medical teams to achieve results and diagnoses on patients.
With the current context of the population and the growth trends foreseen for the years that followed, João Seabra believes that the inversion of the population pyramid will lead to an increase in cases of chronic diseases, and the overloading of the health system. In this sense, the logic that underpins the innovation in the sector because “the technology is a way of facing these challenges.”
on the other hand, “it is not possible to allocate more financial resources to the provision of health care”. In Portugal, for example, about 11% of GDP is spent on these services. In the United States, the percentage reaches 20%. Says, João Seabra, “technology is a key lever for doing more with the same resources” through a more efficient management that will assist the professionals of the sector to “better manage the data collected from the patients.”
in This sense, and contrary to what happened in the beginning, the “technology is appearing to predict and prevent disease at the same time it helps to manage the health”. “We have to manage health, because the best way to control the cost of the same is not to let people get sick. We must find mechanisms of prevention so that people remain healthy and avoid getting sick.”
For the exercise, João Seabra also highlights the role of equipment that accompany us every day and that “are already supporting in the management of the health of patients and of what can be a healthy lifestyle” through dedicated applications. “Today, the innovation follows through the logic of prevention, and less by the way of the management of the disease”, considered the Portuguese.
But this scan of the sector will not only mean new opportunities for patients. On the other hand, the actual health professionals will have to adapt to a new way of practicing medicine. “You begin to see the sign in medicine a set of terms and technologies that typically were not part of it, but it can bring great value. One begins to see more and more the proliferation of robotic systems that support the surgery, for example, and in the past this was a paradigm that was not even posed. Even in Portugal, there are already several institutions that have introduced, for various specialties, robotic surgery”, therefore, “the doctors are already starting to be much more aware of the issue and how the technology can assist in the provision of health care and in the future will have to be much more open to it.”
The Atellica Siemens Healthineers is an example of this new technological age. For patients, the relevance of this innovation resides in the speed with which the results of their examinations can be revealed, up to 10 times faster than the vast majority of the mechanisms currently used.
For professionals, the efficiency means a greater basis for trust in the decision-making process about a patient. If today a doctor is based on 70% of their decisions in the laboratory work, in the future João Seabra believes that the percentage will certainly be much larger. Not only because of effectiveness, but also on account of the number of analyses that will be possible to perform with resources to these automated methods.
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