独家报道：数字医疗如何在2030年之前挽救3000万条生命

确保贫困人口也能享受医疗服务的愿景实现起来有些难度，哪怕美国之类发达国家也一样。在资源匮乏的低收入国家，这几乎是不可能完成的任务。但如果有一种数字医疗教育平台，可以革新医学教育而且能向最偏远农村地区提供医疗服务，最终可能挽救3000万人的生命，是不是很棒？

定下宏伟目标的是2017年TED大奖得主，医疗工作者培训和管理机构Last Mile Health首席执行官拉杰•潘贾比博士（他也被《财富》杂志评为全球最伟大领袖之一，而且作为特邀嘉宾出席了去年在梵蒂冈召开的《财富》+《时代》全球论坛）。今年4月《财富》杂志率先独家观看了潘贾比博士的TED演讲，这段视频于上周二上午向公众播出。潘贾比博士在演讲中描述的前景是社区医疗工作者掌握30种能拯救生命的医疗技能，“到2030年可挽救3000万人”，技能中包括注射疫苗和监测血糖水平。

非营利机构Last Mile Health已经展示边远地区社区工作者如何提供简便的基本医疗服务，要知道那些地方的人们往往得走上两天才能找到诊所和医生。在潘贾比博士出生地利比亚，Last Mile Health培训的1万名医疗工作者挨家挨户提供服务，为遏制2014年的艾博拉疫情做出了贡献。潘贾比博士接受《财富》杂志采访时指出，从那时起，利比亚政府开始投入更多的资源培训社区医疗人员。

作为TED百万美元大奖得主，潘贾比博士还为世界许了个愿：“帮助我们通过全球性培训、联络和授权平台Community Health Academy，建立有史以来规模最大的社区医疗工作者队伍吧。”

Community Health Academy将成为数字枢纽，也可用来扩大社区医疗工作者培训规模。潘贾比博士介绍说，数字化的好处是希望接受培训的当地人就不必像以前一样要划着独木舟赶过去。潘贾比博士把平台定义为数字教育和社区医疗工作革新的结合体，可以帮助印度和非洲其他国家等地提高公众健康水平，而且通过降低基本医疗资质认证的门槛，创造大量优质体面的工作岗位。

但潘贾比博士也承认，要成功搭建这一体系，政府间加强合作以及民间技术投资必不可少。至关重要的是确保移动通信和网络连接，向有需要的人们提供培训。不过，就像他所说，技术不仅可以改善公众健康和医学教育，而且能在长期受忽视的国家培育巨大的医疗设备和数字医疗app市场。（财富中文网）

译者：Charlie

审校：夏林

Making sure the poor have access to health care is a difficult prospect even in advanced nations like the U.S. In low-income countries with few resources, it can be a near impossible feat. But what if a digital health education platform could revolutionize the way medicine is taught and delivered in the most rural, isolated settings—and wind up saving 30 million lives in the process?

That's the ambitious goal set out by 2017 TED Prize winner and Last Mile Health CEO Dr. Raj Panjabi (who is also on Fortune's list of World's Greatest Leaders and was one of the featured participants in the FORTUNE + TIME Global Forum at the Vatican last year). Fortune got an exclusive first look at Panjabi's TED Talk from April, which was released to the public this morning, and where he laid out the promise of community health workers to "save the lives of 30 million people by 2030" by learning 30 life-saving medical skills, such as how to administer vaccines and monitor blood sugar.

Panjabi's nonprofit, Last Mile Health, has already demonstrated how these community workers can change the face of rural health by giving people easily-accessible primary care in regions where you may have to trek for two days to find a clinic or doctor. The group trained 10,000 workers who went door to door in Panjabi's birth country of Liberia to help stem the spread of the Ebola virus during the 2014 outbreak. The Liberian government has been pouring more resources into training these community health professionals since then, Panjabi noted in an interview with Fortune.

As a $1 million TED Prize recipient, Panjabi got to make a wish for the world: "Help us recruit the largest army of community health workers the world has ever known, by creating the Community Health Academy, a global platform to train, connect and empower," he said during his TED Talk.

This Community Health Academy would be a digital hub that could be used to scale community health worker training so that interested locals wouldn't have to journey by canoe just to get to a training center, as one participant described by Panjabi had to. It would sit at the nexus of the digital education and community health worker revolutions, as Panjabi puts it, and allow nations like India and other African countries to bolster public health while also creating a massive number of prestigious jobs by putting basic medical accreditation within everyday people's reach.

But Panjabi acknowledges that government cooperation and private sector technological investments will be necessary to make such a system possible. Ensuring cellular and Internet connectivity so that workers can receive their training will be critical. However, as Panjabi notes, just as technology is crucial to improving public health and medical education, it can also create big new markets for medical devices and digital health apps in countries that have long been ignored.