Digital health in Asia Pacific: Making services more sustainable

This article discusses the potential of digital health solutions enabled by cloud technology to make healthcare services more sustainable and equitable in the Asia Pacific region. It highlights the key findings of a Deloitte Access Economics report commissioned by the AWS Institute.

Specifically, the article covers:

• The need for fresh solutions to address rising healthcare costs, ageing populations, and unequal access to health services in the Asia Pacific region.
• Potential cost savings of USD 21.6 billion if nine Asia Pacific countries transition their hospital IT to the cloud, equivalent to USD 5,963 per hospital bed.
• How cloud-based healthcare solutions can help address health inequity and improve patient experience and outcomes.
• Six common cloud use cases in the Asia Pacific region: data analytics and research platforms, interactive health platforms, health databases, remote monitoring, response to major health events, and telemedicine.
• The need for increased investment in cloud-based healthcare innovation, which lags behind other sectors like financial services.
• Recommendations for governments to develop digital health strategies, build cloud computing skills in the healthcare workforce, and balance regulation with support for innovation.