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…
What Does the Business Administration at A Hospital Care About?
The healthcare industry has seen a sea of change in the last couple of years: from being autonomous to becoming automated, clinician-centric to patient-centric, disjointed to coordinated, reactive to proactive, retrospective to predictive and siloed to aware – if there is one industry which has…
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…
What is Making Health Data Interoperability the Topic of CXO Discussion
Would it be wrong to say that our ability to seamlessly exchange information has been one of the primary reasons for growth today? Think back to the time when exchanging information meant digging through mountains of documents and physically sharing them. Seems unreal today. As…
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…
What is Making Cyber Security Take Center Stage in Healthcare
A simple hack of email accounts of two employees resulted in the breach of the data of over190,000 HealthEquity customers -not for a day, but a whole one month.In October 2018, the Singapore health system suffered from a massive cyber-attack. In this attack, the attackers stole…
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,…
Here Is Why Your Hospital Needs A Clinical Communication and Collaboration System
With chronic diseases and healthcare spending on the rise, the patients’ expectations from hospitals are at an all-time high. Do you know? U.S. hospitals waste more than $12 billion annually as a result of inefficient clinical communication, and that communication errors are directly responsible for…
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…