Usvyat becomes almost elated when he talks about the many ways these medical data can be applied: “In the future, we will be able to treat kidney disease even more efficiently, individually, and precisely,” he says with confidence.
“We will see the emergence of smart treatments tailored to patients’ individual needs and characteristics,” he adds. “It will be possible to develop customized treatments using not only existing data from clinical examinations, but also valuable real-time information from fitness trackers, dialysis machines, as well as other devices.”
Even today, Usvyat’s team routinely analyzes hundreds of data points to predict which patients are likely to need hospital treatment and which have a heightened risk of infection. Avoiding these events leads to an improvement in therapeutic outcomes and quality of life for patients, which is also beneficial for health care systems.