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There is no doubt that healthcare has been center stage in 2020, and for good reason, but what has the role of technology been and how can technology help to manage the current crisis and improve health and wellness in the future?

CES has always been a focal point for healthcare, wellness and fitness technologies and this year’s all digital version of the show is no exception. There have been numerous panels and presentations on the topic as well as hundreds of exhibits and innovations.

Public Health Innovation at Warp Speed

引起我关注的人是“以经速度速度的公共卫生创新”，由Carium的顾问兼首席转型官Lygeia Riccardi主持，由CES的CTA数字健康生产商Jill Gilbert主持。开场客人是FDA首席副专员艾米·阿伯内西（Amy Abernethy），有趣的是他们的表演CIO。面板上的其他客人是CTA公共卫生计划的联合主席，SSM Health首席社区健康官Alexander Garza和Microsoft首席医疗官兼副总裁Global Healthcare David Rhew博士。

在2020年，FDA必须像以往一样具有弹性和快速移动。他们为关键的健康创新和革命性的新药物治疗以及管理安全的Covid-19疫苗提供了批准方案。艾米·阿伯内西（Amy Abernethy）广泛地谈到了整个过程中需要管理的大量数据。她描述了一个带有“数据，数据，而不是喝酒的数据”的世界，指的是数据的大小和复杂性，以及在正确的时间将这些数据在合适的人面前获取的巨大挑战。她认为，成功使用数据有几个关键，一个是汇总的能力，另一个是互操作性。

Regulatory Flexibility to Accelerate Innovation

但也许最有趣的经历nd lessons learned around innovation in real time. As Amy Abernethy explains, it is difficult to innovate in highly regulated spaces, but it’s difficult for good reason. It is critical to balance risk and demand and that has been something the FDA has had to focus on, as well as making sure lessons are learned and a retrospective view is taken to ensure the integrity of the trial, accessibility, and that the data accuracy were not compromised. The FDA has utilized regulatory flexibility to accelerate innovation, particularly with respect to getting testing scaled and drug trials underway. Looking back and learning from these processes is necessary to assess the success of that regulatory flexibility.

Learning How to Learn

Amy Abernethy hopes that this difficult period has helped us to learn how to learn, as this could be a fundamentally positive outcome from the pandemic. She also believes we’ve learned how to innovate in real time and in a more collaborative way, bring together policy, industry, and the public to create better solutions faster.

公共，私人和行政管理之间的合作

Next, we heard CTA’s Public Health Initiative’s leadership reveal a preview of the key lessons learned from this pandemic as well as their strategic recommendations for the nation to better address future public health emergencies using technology. The Initiative seeks to better understand, and eventually prioritize, how tech can collaborate to apply best practices and lessons learned from this health crisis to future challenges.

Both Dr. David Rhew and Alexander Garza agreed that data management is a huge part of the healthcare puzzle and that old analogue systems simply don’t work when the data pool is so large and complex. Digital transformation is the only solution and the only route to faster better decision making. And like Amy Abernethy, both agreed that the crisis has shown the value of partnership, as companies that might not normally work together have collaborated with a common goal.

CTA的公共卫生计划还在研究公共卫生基础设施，探索技术行业可以带来什么以及如何改善结果。他们工作的结果应是共享资源，例如白皮书和演示文稿，以及可行的项目。

More Challenges and Opportunities Ahead in 2021

去年最大的挑战显然是管理199大流行和所需的紧急努力。今年可能会更加相同，再加上疫苗接种计划的复杂性，不仅在美国，而且在世界各地。

行业，政策制定者，行政管理和公众共同努力的意愿将是我们成功导航这些挑战时期的关键。当今的卫生保健技术有潜力提供变革性的改进，不仅对公共卫生，而且对我们经济的顺利运作，也有巨大的好处。我们所有人都必须加倍我们的协调努力来实现这一目标。