Explosion in cyber-tech changing the face of medicine forever

The explosion in digital healthcare innovation will within the next few years reduce doctors’ workloads and overall healthcare costs five-fold, speed up diagnoses by the same margin and totally reinvent the way medicine is practiced, saving billions of rands. This was said by Dr Jonathan Broomberg, CEO of Discovery Health, in a recent presentation to journalists on how the digital revolution is transforming medicine. He said new technology could empower patients to take responsibility for their health and enable doctors and caregivers to intervene almost instantly via individual wearable (or ingestible) automatic devices that monitored and transmitted in real time anything from the gut biome, heartrate, stress and insulin levels, to the amount of movement or its absence.