Affordable healthcare is one of the most pressing issues affecting humanity globally. The annual global budget for healthcare, as per WHO official data, ranges between 8 and 9 Trillion United States dollars.
Affordable healthcare has become one of the major issues of concern such that it has been listed as one of the United Nation’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). SDG Goal 3, Good Health and Well-Being, forwards the idea of effective health systems that are centred on availability, efficiency, affordability and reliability. However, with the rising healthcare costs in most of the developing countries, with some parts of Africa and Asia being the main focal points, an estimated 8,000,000 people die annually due to lack of adequate and standard healthcare, according to nationalacademies.org.
Countless healthcare-related donors have unveiled funds amounting to several hundreds of billions of dollars in an effort to resuscitate the healthcare facilities of most developing nations that are currently in a sorry state. With the recruitment of Healthcare Workers (HCWs) that has been taking place in the developed countries, following a sharp decline of health facility staffing in the post-Covid era, there has been a massive brain drain which has left the health systems of many developing nations on their knees. According to some recent research studies, the healthcare sectors of these countries are expected to undergo a steep dive due to shortage of skilled HCWs who are flocking to greener pastures.
Most efforts to address these concerns have have been futile. Focusing on the innovation side, many smartphone manufacturers such as Apple and Samsung, have invested heavily in mobile applications and hardware that improve the current healthcare systems, but quite a number of healthcare needs remain unmet. The consumption of software products is optional, which limits the use of healthcare services due to the stiff competition from other applications such as social media platforms, entertainment services and electronic commerce. Limited data access in the developing world, lack of information and general ignorance have been largely blamed for the backsliding in the anticipated user growth. The UN SDGs are currently set for 2030 as the official deadline, but the remaining number of years has unveiled a growing doubt on the success of the current efforts before the deadline. That points out to the need for more efficient service delivery in healthcare systems.
Nevertheless, this journey seeks to launch a futuristic vision regarding healthcare systems, a groundbreaking technological advancement that works on all creatures, but mostly for human beings, and works with implants for advanced healthcare delivery for cost effectiveness, reduction in medication timeframes and consistency to reduce the likelihood of antimicrobial resistance, which has become not only common but part of our lives, and, finally, for proper blockchain-based record keeping. Most common examples for antimicrobial resistance are Methicilin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA), Vancomycin-resistant Enterococci (VRE), Enterobacteriaceae, Carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii (CRAB) and Carbapenem-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa (CPRsA); and this revolutionary technology aims to suppress the effects of antimicrobial resistance resulting from the ineffective use of antibiotics in humans.
Clinical records are to be easier to keep and maintain than ever, with advanced data security through advanced blockchain technologies. The technology has currently been optimised for people with persistent medical conditions like hypertension, tuberculosis and HIV, in an effort to improve the effectiveness of first-line treatments, to avoid unnecessary implementations of second-line and third-line drugs, which has been largely blamed for antimicrobial resistance. This will ease WHOs efforts in the Global Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance System (GLASS), especially on multi-drug resistant organisms (MDROs).
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