Summit Health: Data integration will enable a personalized fight against disease, experts say

Summit Health: Data integration will enable a personalized fight against disease, experts say


Event attendees stress the importance of relating genetic models to diagnoses and treatments for more accurate results and highlight the challenges of implementing a model

Thanks to the high volume of data that relate genetic models to diseases, diagnoses and treatments, it will be possible to offer, in the near future, an increasingly personalized health care, aimed not only at prevention but also at more precise treatment of diseases. existing.

This was one of the main conclusions of the third day of debates of the 2022 Health and Wellness Summitwhich is done online and free of charge from Estadio until next Friday 21.

“I believe that we will soon replace the current ‘one size fits all’ model, which means one size fits all for all types of diseases, for an increasingly personalized service, thanks to genetics combined with artificial intelligence, which allows us to understand sequencing. I see path to health, and it is inexorable, “said Sidney Klajner, president of the Sociedade Beneficente Israelita Brasileira Albert Einstein.

For Iomani Engelmann, marketing and commercial director of the Pixeon hospital solutions platform, there is currently a data overload, however, there is still not enough integration to be able to share and they can actually be restored in a new model.

“What exists today are islands of data. Each institution has its own. This should be shared, so that the doctor can see the complete clinical history and therefore have a more adequate clinical management, resulting in better therapeutic quality and life”, he has declared.

It also hopes that the regulations will be discussed with the competent bodies for the processing of data in a structural way, without causing damage to the patient and generating value for the healthcare supply chain. “It’s like it’s been done in the financial system, with Open Banking,” she compares.

Experts also discussed how new technologies have enhanced telemedicine. In addition to online consultations, Albert Einstein’s Klajner highlights advances in tele-care, such as remote monitoring of patients with chronic diseases and the increasing use of algorithms to optimize health care.

In Einstein, for example, doctors are able to more quickly define, based on data analysis, whether a particular patient needs to be hospitalized. The system books the bed immediately, reducing the length of stay in the unit and improving the patient experience.

Another example of practical application is in surgical centers. According to Sidney Klajner, online scheduling on a platform allows artificial intelligence to organize the use of vacancies according to the profile of the professional and the practice, so that there is less and less inactivity.

“We have seen an increase from three to four surgical appointments per day with the same infrastructure,” he says. “It is important to transform the data into something tangible, improving the patient’s care, diagnosis, treatment and experience. If you monitor the heart patient with the data, you know, through big data, if the situation is improving or getting worse. and you can act preventively ».

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The experts also discussed on the third day of the Health Summit how genetics has influenced treatments for diseases such as cancer. According to Andreia Melo, head of the Clinical Research Division of the National Cancer Institute (Inca), we no longer talk about oncology without analyzing the molecular alteration of tumors. “Treatment is defined based on the data from this analysis, if there is a molecular change, if the mutation caused the disease or can predict any responses to treatment. Today I do precision medicine based on this change found,” he says. she.

Based on this analysis, it turns out whether the patient had a germline mutation, which poses a greater risk of developing neoplasms, or in the case of already ill people, how some somatic changes occurred in a cell and led to the development of the neoplasm. .

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The challenges of the rapid transformations observed in healthcare, mainly driven by the covid-19 pandemic, are the subject of 2022 Health and Wellness Summitorganized by Estadio.

The event will take place online, from 17 to 21 October, and will see the participation of 30 Brazilian and foreign speakers. The event can be followed by Estadão networks and for official page.

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Source: Terra

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