Healthcare Delivery And Innovation Medicine

I choose these two additional areas of interest, Research in healthcare delivery and Innovation Medicine. Research in healthcare delivery is crucial. For example, one of the healthcare delivery problems is patient’s non-compliance with doctor’s advice. However, before we discuss how to motivate a patient to become compliant with the course of treatment recommended or prescribed, the physician-patient communication should be examined. That is, what is being communicated to the patient and how? Healthcare Delivery And Innovation Medicine

There are many factors involved during the brief 15 minutes when a physician is with his/her patient that could directly impact the physician-patient communication. For example, the physician may be busy typing into the electronic chart with his/her back towards the patient while mumbling out the list of things that the patient should follow through, or the patient may be old and hard of hearing, or may have a mild cognitive decline, or the patient may speak very limited English. All this could lead to superficially non-compliance. Hence, to solve the problem of non-compliance, we need to conduct systematic research to identify the contributing factors to non-compliance and do multivariate analysis to see which factors are the most influential. Once the factors are identified and prioritized, we could conduct pilot trials to find ways that could eliminate the factors. Healthcare Delivery And Innovation Medicine

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My second area of interest is Innovation Medicine. We are at a crossroad today. We can do what we have always been doing in practicing medicine or we can embrace the fast changing digital world and take advantage of the digital format, robots, machine learning, and artificial intelligence to revolutionize how medical care is delivered. For example, to solve a problem of non-compliance where a patient only takes his blood pressure medication when he remembers which makes his blood pressure unstable, his doctor can help him download a voice reminder app (e.g., Voice Reminder in Apple Store) to his phone which reminds the patient to take his medication in his own voice at the preselected time intervals. This helps the patient become compliant with his medical treatment of high blood pressure. A more advanced example of Innovation Medicine could be to use the ability of deep learning to detect abstract and complex patterns to identify biomarkers to classify brain-based disorders. Given my interest in machine learning and minor in computer science this area would be a good match for me.Healthcare Delivery And Innovation Medicine