Let’s Talk About Interactive Patient Care
Comfort is something that we associate with hospitality and not a hospital. If we are completely honest, comfort and hospital stays are unlikely friends. But this is changing. The focus on patient satisfaction and patient engagement have become high over the past few years. And…
How Smart Technologies Can Help Hospitals in Patient Throughput and Capacity Management
Crowded emergency rooms and snaking patient queue, busy personnel always in a rush. Winding corridors and long wait times. A feeling that everything is ready to burst from the seams. An overwhelming sense of being in a space that is running beyond full capacity…where everything…
How Blockchain can Transform the Healthcare Industry
With security becoming a grave necessity of every industry, blockchain technology is touted to be one of the most disruptive inventions of the modern world. While multiple industries are adopting blockchain technology to innovate the way they operate, the use case in the healthcare industry…
The Various Sources of Operational Intelligence in A Smart Hospital
The patient has become a consumer of healthcare. This concept was alien to the healthcare industry for the longest time. The advent of globalization has also put hospitals under tremendous pressure – to increase patient-centricity, reduce operational costs, increase efficiencies and improve patient outcomes. A…
The Key Benefits of Predictive Analytics to Hospitals
A few weeks ago I drafted a LinkedIn post on predictive analytics in healthcare. As I wrote, I realized then that this topic needed to be covered in greater detail than what LinkedIn would allow. Analytics, after all, has arguably been one of the most…
6 Things You Should Care About in Your Smart Hospital Transformation Roadmap
Technology is ushering in the dawn of a new day in the healthcare industry. With a growing focus on patient centricity owing to the consumerization of healthcare, we are witnessing the rise of the Smart Hospital. In this new environment, technology assists to reduce waste,…
Let’s Talk About Real-Time Healthcare Systems
Healthcare today has come a long way. This is not only in the manner that advanced technology is being used to conduct medical procedures but also how technology is being implemented to hone and improve patient experiences. The patient of today clearly no longer wants…
10 Most Common Use Cases of AI in Healthcare
With all the industries being disrupted by the data deluge and the technologies associated with it, it was just a matter of time before healthcare too would be engulfed. Given the very nature of this sector where a humongous amount of data is being generated…
The Growing Role of Wearables in Improving Healthcare
According to Gartner, the sale of wearable devices is going to jump by a whopping 26% in 2019 compared to 2018. Such stats, as well as the wide acceptance by the healthcare providers of the fitness wearables, makes one wonder whether this is just what…
Key Technologies That Are Making Smart Hospitals Possible Today
The last few decades have seen a tremendous shift in the capacity and also the capability of the healthcare sector suggesting the odds of a significantly new picture of hospitals. Today, medical experts view health care services based on the digital characterization of patients. Advanced…