Technologies and trends that are shaping the healthcare IT sector

By CIOReview | Tuesday, January 29, 2019

Healthcare industry is undergoing a digital transformation. The intelligent and sensors-based technologies are able to remove obstacles, form the methods of treatment easier, and deliver excellent customer experience. The technologies support medical research approach to increase the outcome quality, discovery processes to find new techniques to analyze the data. Also, advance computation techniques to provide patient-centric healthcare. Following are some of the trends that are transforming the industry in an exceptional way:

AI and data visualization: Healthcare providers see the increasing potential of applying artificial intelligence (AI) to the patient information. The technology assists clinicians with decision support, reduces financial risks, and establishes population health initiatives for chronic disease management. AI fetches information, processes it and concludes without human intervention. Also, it wipes out all imperfections when it comes to analyzing medical images by detecting anomalies in a better way.

Virtual care: Technologies have the ability to deliver care in the least expensive way with the most effective setting, which pushes to care to a virtual environment via telemedicine or use of remote patient monitoring devices. Patients can use a virtual assistant as a virtual doctor instead of consulting with doctors again and again. Virtual assistant allows patients making interactions with doctors in real-time and also keeps working on patients' data analysis. Doctors can prescribe medicines and diets for common medical conditions after seeing symptoms.

Influence of the cloud: The cloud improves the hospital management and patient experience through a decentralized approach. Hospitals come up with difficulties in managing millions of electronic patient records, securing them, integrating social and healthcare information. Cloud computing has changed this process by enabling hospitals quality and cost-effective services.

Total care management: Technologies undergird payers efforts to migrate from claims administrations that help insurers offer care management and health optimization for the patients, who they cover.

Interoperability: Healthcare providers face pressure to increase efficacy with which digital information is shared across critical systems and teams that use them. The correlation increases efficiency in care and improves clinical decision support.

Technology solutions can be transformative for the growing complexities in the healthcare hospitals. The trends seem to be promising in paving the way for doctors, physicians, and patients so they can deliver better healthcare services.