Technology serving the healthcare sector enables solutions for the detection, diagnosis or treatment of diseases, as well as the production of new medicines, vaccines, prostheses, artificial skin or diagnostic devices.
According to consulting firm Global Market Insights, the global healthcare market will exceed $600 billion worldwide by 2027.
And the global agenda of organizations like the Economic Commission for Latin America (ECLAC) recognizes that health poses challenges that only technology can address. Over the last decade, its implementation has increased dramatically. In their daily lives, doctors already use robotics and lasers and even perform complex operations on full-scale organ models.
In the coming years, metaverse, artificial intelligence and 3D printing will be the technologies that will further facilitate the development of the healthcare sector, as they contribute to the globalization of medical care and the improvement of its administrative performance. Read: “Let’s make Colombia a technology-based country”: Min TIC
With the situation of the pandemic, the country has embarked on the path of teleconsultation, a fact that has allowed the development of the digitalization of the health sector and the emergence of companies.
According to the Colombia Tech Report 2022-2023, of the 1,327 startups, health tech companies account for 7.0%.
The importance of the digitalization of the healthcare sector was highlighted during the 38th edition of Andicom, the most important technology event in Colombia and the Americas, with the recognition of the PwC and CINTEL Business Digital Transformation Award, created by the multinational consulting firm PwC The technology development company Cintel , which exposed the best business initiatives and projects in the development of digital processes and solutions, focused on operational improvements, addressing a more demanding customer and changes in business models.
In the category “Innovative solutions that enable digital transformation in companies” we wanted to recognize those companies that develop technological solutions that enable the social transformation of their customers, that reflect improvements in operational processes, that have an impact on the customer experience. Customers, changes or adjustments in the business model and success stories, the digitalization of the healthcare sector emerged as a winner with the technological development of Biofile.
“We would like to thank the organizers of the Business Digital Transformation Award for this recognition, PwC, Cintel, our Biofile team and the users of our software; to the doctors and specialists who believe in us. For all of you, we work every day to provide technological solutions that enable physicians, practices, ICUs and healthcare organizations to grow and gain access to the latest technological advances. This gives us further reasons to continue to be part of their transformation, to accompany them in their daily lives, to make their consultations and the management of all their services more flexible, and in this way to contribute to the strengthening of the health sector, one of the most important axes of development in ours Country,” said Dorian Rallón, CEO of Health Tech.
