The future of diagnostics is NOW

Chronic diseases are becoming more prevalent. Many of us will be affected by cardiovascular diseases, diabetes or cancer. The good news is, that if detected early, many of those conditions can be controlled and even prevented.

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Nonetheless, 50% of patients globally don’t receive timely accurate diagnostics.

There are different reasons for that:

• Workforce shortage, lack of time and economic pressure

• Failure in gathering and interpreting clinical data

• Lack of standardized assessment pathways which means that the right data are not always collected

• Difficulty for healthcare professionals to use traditional medical devices

• Multiple stand-alone devices and softwares that make the process lengthy due to the lack of connectivity and data being siloed

• Manual data is still very common, incurring data entry errors or lost data

• We focus more on sick care than on predictive care

What can be done to increase early diagnostics?

One answer is integrated diagnostics and this is exactly what companies like MESI have been working on and are already successfully deploying in the healthcare systems worldwide.

Integrated diagnostics

Integrated diagnostics is the combination of data from different sources and clinical environments like blood tests, imaging, and digital health tools to give healthcare professionals a clearer, faster, and more accurate picture for diagnosis and treatment within the clinical workflow. 

MESI offers an all-in-one approach with a suite of medical devices to collect a wide range of biomarkers (12-lead ECG, ABI, TBI, spirometry, thermometer, PAD, etc), as well as audio and pictures, all connected to the mTABLET which enables a complete guided assessment.

MESI product

This product is the result of years listening to healthcare professionals and adapting the product to their needs and workflow.

What are the benefits of a solution like MESI?

• Having one plug-and-play solution integrating a very complete suite of devices, that you have handy on a trolley or in a suitcase to measure a broad range of biomarkers.

• AI-based clinical recommendation and decision support to decide what to do next with your patient.

• Having all the information synchronized in one place makes it easier to ask for a second opinion. 

• By reducing the administrative burden, it helps healthcare professionals to focus more on the patient and to collect more data in less time. 

• Connectivity and synchronicity enable real time feedback that will help with better care coordination and immediate action taking at the bedside.

We, as humans, are a wealth of data that are waiting to be collected and interpreted. But having the right tools to do so and connect all those data together in one place to make sense of them is key to help not just with care but also with predictive health in order to anticipate health issues and take actions as soon as possible. Having all the tools at hand could encourage healthcare professionals to do more tests to detect silent diseases like arterial diseases, without adding to their workload but with potentially big impact on patients' health and lives.