Quality health care should be available to everyone, the difficulty lies in communication”.
Dmitry
Khan, Doctor Smart Strategic Advisor got involved in the healthcare
industry in 2009 when he became a managing partner at Rostock Biotech.
At the time, the fund was supporting ambitious research projects aimed
at developing an anti-aging pill, curing diabetes and cancer, and
fighting neurodegenerative diseases. While looking for profitable
investment opportunities, Rostock Biotech declared a broader
mission — they only invested in ideas that, if successful, would change
the world. In 2017, Dmitry Khan joined Doctor Smart as a Strategic
Advisor. He believes that everyone should be entitled to high-quality
health care, and telehealth can help achieve that.
There
is a massive amount of medical knowledge and numerous technologies
available to us. It’s not just qualified doctors and early diagnostics,
but the analysis of medical data — datasets consisting of hundreds of
thousands cases can be used to help detect early signs of diseases, and
to build predictive models for detailed analysis and focused research.
These
solutions could create an opportunity for the vast majority of people
to get quality health care and to avoid serious health problems.
However, very few consumers know that such services are available, many
don’t even realize they exist.
The culprit is poor communication, lack of awareness in healthcare.
Today,
the scope and means of access to knowledge and technology in healthcare
is primarily determined by economic factors. Next comes patient
awareness. For example, antibiotics can save lives in some cases, but
unrestricted use may result in antibiotic resistance causing just about
any bacteria to become a dangerous threat.
The same applies to preventive care — only a small number of people undergo annual health checkups. How do you explain that every healthy person should get regular checkups in order to identify early signs of health issues? It is very difficult to change people’s minds and to convince them that health care doesn’t have to be expensive, hard to get, and focused on treating already-diagnosed problems.
Many
healthcare consumers rely on the government. In some countries it
works. For example, Iceland’s government launched a large-scale
whole-genome sequencing program. In Russia, the government covers
physical examinations for almost everyone.
However,
there’s much more to health and wellness than what physicals can
reveal, such as mental and emotional health, among other things. That’s
why I believe that everyone should take care of their well-being rather
than rely blindly on the government or some third parties.
Doctor Smart wants to let people be in charge of their own health, keeping track and making conscious choices.
Telemedicine
provides an excellent opportunity to bring down the costs of healthcare
services, making them affordable for nearly everyone. Soon, it will be
robots and neural networks who process most consumer requests, and, as a
result, such intelligent services will cost significantly less than
conventional doctor visits. Patients will have 24/7 access to broad
medical knowledge and relevant health and wellness advice through
applications.
Preventive medicine is the future of healthcare
The
Doctor Smart platform is designed to bring together doctors and
patients. It is also an ecosystem for implementing new solutions and
technologies.
Let’s
imagine a near future where patients can not only reach doctors online,
but also order their individual prescriptions from a pharmacy using the
same application. They will receive containers with personalized
medication. Such patients will be guaranteed that there are no
contraindications and no dangerous interactions with other current
medications.
Even
so, what is going to dominate the future of healthcare, in my opinion,
is preventive medicine. The industry will focus on collecting personal
health data — for example, through apps like the one mentioned above.
Users will become aware of the risk of certain diseases and any
individual predispositions. This will help them take better care of
themselves in order to keep health risks at bay, with focus on
environment, lifestyle and personalized therapy.
Annual health checkups are going to be replaced by automatic continuous online monitoring of hundreds of health parameters, with daily recommendations on physical activity, nutrition and supplements.
If
you ask me, the first thing I would do is take a look at my health data
analysis, such as my blood test results. I would check for any
deviations and see what could have caused them, and I would like to
compare the values with the statistics for Moscow, for example, to
understand why some of them are higher or lower than normal.
I
consider myself an early adopter of technology — I like to use the
latest technology available. For example, I did a DNA test. It didn’t
reveal any serious conditions or unusual markers. So, all I got was some
information that, to my regret, is still hardly useful today. Even
whole-genome sequencing is practically useless today, because the human
genome consists of repetitive DNA elements. There are no guarantees that
isolating and editing a specific region of your genome will cure your
allergy or another disease. But the research continues, and this type of
information may become useful in the future. Looking ahead, I hope to
see life extension technologies, such as tissue and organ replacement,
become part of everyday life.
Launching an ICO is the next logical step
These
are very early days for the ICO market. It’s a brand new
area — businesses tokenize, and it’s not just fundraising, it’s equity
distribution. It’s about distributing revenues, distributing product or
service value among the participants. Even traditional securities offer
fewer advantages than tokens. Securities are better regulated, but trust
me, the ICO market is developing so fast that in just a couple of years
it will become self-regulated, well-balanced, and low-risk. It will
then be easy to avoid scams, and to evaluate and distinguish between
projects.
It
makes sense that many businesses have been recently rescheduling their
ICOs to launch token sales in later stages of their startup lifecycle.
Once the project is live and has its own user base, it becomes easier to
promote an ICO and attract more funds for continued business
development.
As a rule, investors use three criteria for evaluating a project:
- What product or service is offered? Do people need it?
- How scalable is it?
- How does it benefit from blockchain technology?
Doctor
Smart has positive answers to these three questions. Health is
important to every human being. The potential audience size for Doctor
Smart is 7 billion people, the entire world population — I know from
experience that, starting a new project, very few can even imagine the
scale it might achieve and the ways in which it will transform as it
develops.
I
consider Doctor Smart a scalable project — it can expand into
international markets. There are country-specific regulations to
consider, of course, and we’ll pay special attention to that. We can’t
predict regulatory changes — some countries may allow all kinds of
specialists to consult online, while some other geographies would only
have fitness training tips and psychological advice.
Like
any other project, Doctor Smart doesn’t have to use blockchain.
However, this technology offers more opportunities — additional
services, better insurance mechanisms, and a higher degree of security.
In healthcare, data security is a major concern. Therefore, Doctor Smart will strongly benefit from using a private blockchain.
We
will need to find a balanced solution with regard to access for
external specialists — doctors might be allowed to access only certain
parts of patient records, not the full medical history. Blockchain
technology can make the handling of patient data significantly easier.
The
crypto community is eager to see technology make the world a better
place. Doctor Smart is created to help people stay healthy. This makes
me believe that the crypto community will support this project.
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