Humanity needs high-quality medical care. Unfortunately, it is still unequally distributed. The requirements vary with the stage of development of the single regions and countries; hence the users face different challenges.
Challenges for the highly developed industrialised nations.
- Modernization of antiquated infrastructure necessary, as it no longer fulfils the increased quality demands
- Existing technical infrastructure is not designed for individualization of therapies (e.g. patient blood management programmes)
- Progressive use of innovative cell therapies for broad medical use requires modern, sustainable stock logistics
- New social trends in family planning (social freezing) require an affordable, scalable infrastructure for everybody
Challenges for the rapidly emerging countries.
- Modernization and expansion of the existing infrastructure, to allow access to high medical quality for large segments of the population
- Access to modern medication for all – to avoid medical tourism in highly developed industrialised nations
- Increase in civilization deseases such as diabetes require modern medical care
- The quality of the medical infrastructure is crucial to the contentment of the population
Challenges for underserved developing countries
- Restricted blood supply only for selected parts of the population
- To ensure blood supply for large segments of the population, without implementing an established dispenser system
- Today blood supply essentially serves the survival of mothers at birth and small children less than five years. Additionally diseases such as Malaria or Ebola require high accessibility of blood preparations
- The broad medical care of the fast growing world population is one of the greatest challenges of our time. Modern technology and intelligent solutions can help addressing current issues better in future