With an increasing demand of affordable and reliable healthcare services and platform, that is majorly driven by aging and growing economy in some countries, a global healthcare solution that connects every actor in the business is needed. AIMEDIS aims to be the all-in-one global healthcare platform that helps people/patients around the world, clinicians, hospitals and health care providers to achieve their goal in the healthcare ecosystem.
In this article, we will outline some key problems that AIMEDIS wanted to solve and how they will do that. Without further ado, I hope you enjoy this article!
Healthcare Services is Needed by Everyone
First and foremost, everybody needs healthcare services. It is impossible that we never got sick, needs some medications or guidance to keep our body healthy. Because of this, the healthcare industry is a big business. A multi-billion dollars industry with a lot of challenges and high demands. Innovation will be the key to success in the industry.
The potential of healthcare sectors as a multi-billion business will go to waste if there's no platform that could support the needs of every actor there. For example, it is impossible for doctors to cure the patient effectively when they don't have the tools or required data for diagnostics. This lack of tools or services will in turn cause patients or patient's families to be unsatisfied and will try to choose other options.
An insight about the cost of healthcare industry. Source: Caredash
Therefore, a platform where doctors can access patient data quickly, especially their past medication is very crucial. In addition to that, it is also impossible for patients to get the services that they needed if there are no affordable health care services that they could access.
Another reason why health care services need a revolutionary platform is that there is an increase in global life expectancy. Everybody will live longer, and naturally the demand for health care services, regardless whether it is a medication or any other program such as diet will increase. Everybody deserves to access that services and will likely demand the industry to provide more reliable services for them. Therefore, it is safe to assume that a global healthcare platform that helps patients, and every, in general, is needed.
AIMEDIS has an ambitious mission to be that platform. It aims to be the all-in-one platform that will help doctors, patients or other actors to get what they need the most. For example, AIMEDIS will help doctors and patient with globally shared patient records that can help diagnostics and medication to be faster, simpler, and more effective. Therefore, AIMEDIS will help doctors or other actors to work effectively, efficiently and be more productive. While patients can get the best services that they always wanted.
Supporting Rural Medication with Electronic Health Technology
There is another problem in the healthcare industry, which is the availability of affordable and professional help in a remote location. It is hard for the people there to get a quick, solutive and affordable health care because there are no infrastructure and professional clinicians who can help them. In a place like that, a sudden sickness can be a great danger even if it can be cured easily when there are tools and doctors.
Assuming there is no hospital or health care clinic that they can access quickly from their home, they have to travel miles away to reach the nearest healthcare services. Some of them even need to travel 60 or even 400 miles. The bad news is, everything related to the medication and diagnostics in the hospital is not free from time-consuming administration process. Even if they can manage it in time, it is also possible that there are no professionals available at that moment to treat the patients.
An illustration of rural medication. Source: Forbes India
Some doctors who feel that they have the responsibility to help people in remote areas, try to solve this problem by moving and living with them, curing them directly to cut the necessary requirements of traveling when those people got sick. However, an approach like that is not effective if they don't know the necessary knowledge or skills that are required to cure a specific illness.
One solution that can help those doctors or patients in remote areas is by empowering them with remote consultation or diagnostics where patient or doctors can talk or discuss with other doctors. By doing this, they can get a direct diagnosis, and therefore they can understand what the necessary steps to help those patients if eventually, they have to bring them to the nearest hospital.
AIMEDIS will help the patient in remote areas or every patient in general in order to do remote consultation/diagnosis. You'll be able to have a direct conversation or diagnosis with verified doctors, who'll help you with your needs. Doctors, in return, will be able to get AIM tokens as a reward for their contribution to the patient health and treatment. With the advance of blockchain and electronic health technology, such innovation will be available as soon as possible.
Tackling the Problems of Medical Tourism & Patient Records
Medical tourism is a trend now. You can find someone from other countries travels to countries that are supposed to have a hospital or healthcare technology/specialist that could help cure their illness. For example, an Indonesian who travels to Singapore, or South Korea. For patients who have enough money to travel and buy the treatment, medical tourism is a perfect choice.
However, there are several problems in the medical tourism process. One of them is the difficulty to determine the best place to undergo the treatment process. Just like when you want to cure yourself in your own city, there are several hospitals and specialist, that you have to choose first before you go and undergo your treatment. It might sound simple at first because you can just ask your peers, or try them one by one. However, when we talked about medical tourism, the time and money are limited, and it's such a waste when you have to spend your money just to travel and look at each place to decide which one that's suitable for the patients.
Infographics about medical tourism industry in 2017. Source: Dr Prem
The next problem is about medical records. Suppose that you have chosen the hospital or clinics where you will undergo your treatment, but in that place, you'll need to follow a lengthy process to get all of the necessary data required by the doctors to determine how bad and how can they cure you. This requires a lot of time, and of course money. It would be more effective and efficient if the doctors or hospital can access your previous medical records or health records from a single, trusted database. In general, clinical and data analytics is a major challenge in the healthcare industry.
AIMEDIS will help you and the healthcare industry in general to tackle those problems. It will provide you with a detailed comparison between hospitals/clinics that you can choose when you're doing a medical tourism. By using AIMEDIS, you can save a lot of time and money. AIMEDIS global healthcare database (powered by blockchain) will also help doctors or health care providers in general by providing the necessary and important data regarding the patient well-being, medical records, and etc.
Solving the Faulty Medication
Medication is an integral part of the entire healthcare services. Most of the time, doctors or medical providers give patients some sort of prescription that needs to be followed to ensure the patient can get healthy again. Unfortunately, this part of the healthcare process is not free from problems.
There are many kinds of problems in this area, starting with drugs monopoly into the patient's faults itself. Some major problems included but not limited to faulty prescription, lack of understanding about their medication from the patient, unaffordable medication to forgetfulness from the patient. How can we solve these problems?
An illustration of drugs. Source: SCPR
It's simple. We can provide a platform to track patient medication, give them notifications when they need to drink/consume their medics, and give them a detailed guidance to drink their medics. The platform would allow the patient to compare and see which drugs they should buy to avoid buying unnecessary or wrong drugs, that is expensive and not needed. Therefore, the risk of those aforementioned problems can be greatly reduced.
AIMEDIS, with its AIMEDISAFE, will be the pioneer of such platform. AIMEDISAFE will solve those problems by utilizing a combination of AI and blockchain. It will help the patient to cross-check every aspect from their prescription, including but not limited to the correct dosage, giving a second opinion whether it is safe to use or not by analyzing the patient gender, age, and so on. It's pretty cool, read the rest on their whitepaper.
Providing the Social Support for Patients
AIMEDIS will also provide a platform where every patient can communicate with each other or doctors in order to get advice or support that they need. A platform like this will greatly help the patient to stay positive and feel that they're not alone. Such feelings are very important for patients because it can help them recover sooner and stay healthy.
An illustration of social support. Source: Transplant Living
One of the major challenges for patient treatment nowadays is giving them the social support that they need. Sometimes, even the family can't support them enough and in fact, cause distress for the patients. At some point, it is understandable because the other families might not have the same experience that the patients have. By providing the patients access to their peers who have the same sickness, could be the catalyst for the patients' recovery.
Doctors and medical specialist can also help those patients directly without even need to go outside of their house, and they'll get their rewards in form of AIM tokens. By utilizing this approach, doctors will be able to contribute and get rewards that they deserved directly without any intermediary parties or additional fees. Both patients and doctors will be able to get what they deserved in this scenario.
Bottom Line
The global healthcare platform empowered by blockchain and cryptocurrencies, AIMEDIS might be one of the best alternatives for the healthcare industries. Using AIMEDIS, many problems and drawbacks from the current disconnected, localized and inefficient healthcare services can be solved quite easily, without the needs of drastic and costly changes. In short, #AIMEDIS is probably one of the innovation for the healthcare industry.
This article is not a financial recommendation. The author, AIMEDIS and other parties mentioned in this article is a separate entity. The author writes this article based on his own understanding of AIMEDIS. Readers should read the original document of AIMEDIS by themselves. The author shouldn't be responsible for any actions taken by the readers, including but not limited to: joining the AIMEDIS bounty program, participate in the AIMEDIS token sale, and etc. The author writes this article for a potential reward from AIMEDIS bounty program, participating with a Bitcointalk account with the username joniboini (UID=1275282).