Internet of Medical Things – Is It A Thing Now?
As the demand for quality and affordable health care increases, and as an aging population continues to burden the health care system, the industry is turning to the Internet of Medical Things or IoMT to transform healthcare outcomes. According to reports, the IoT healthcare market…
How Can The CIO Drive Business Outcomes in Hospitals?
In the rapidly evolving healthcare landscape, we are witnessing a shift in traditional roles and a change in relationships. As patients become consumers of health care and the focus of healthcare models moves to improve patient outcomes and to improve population health, the various roles…
How Developers Must Prepare to Create Smart Hospital Solutions
Withglobal healthcare spending projected to reach $8.7 trillion by 2020, the healthcare sector has been a front-runner in the adoption of modern technologies, which has led to the emergence of the smart hospital concept. Although standalone hospital information systems have been enabling healthcare organizations to improve…
How Technology Can Help in Reducing Medication Errors
A report by the Institute of Medicine found that medication errors affect more than 1.5 million patients every year in the United States alone! The study also found that out of these 1.5 million, 400,000 incidents were preventable. The yearly cost of mortality and morbidity…
Beyond Recordkeeping, The True Value of Hospital Information Systems
Information technology has become pervasive in our lives in a manner that it has emerged as a key tool for development and growth. In the healthcare scenario, Hospital Information Systems or HIS, have become the enablers of efficiencies, improving patient care, increasing patient satisfaction levels,…
Key Tech Investment Areas for Smart Hospitals
Technology is eating the world. Today every aspect of our lives, every industry, every sector has been transformed because of technology. Do we even remember the days of the landline? Do we remember how the older banking format worked? Can you imagine waiting for a…
Can Machine Learning Bring a Paradigm Shift in Healthcare?
In a world where patients are getting more and more involved in their own health, the problems of manual processes are many. Having medical records, research documents, lab reports, doctor prescriptions, etc. on paper restricts seamless understanding and sharing of important health information that ultimately…
Here’s What Healthcare Executives Need To Know While Embarking On The Journey Of Smart Hospitals
Since the last few years, the healthcare sector has seen an exponential rise in the adoption and use of new healthcare technologies. By exploiting an unprecedented amount of data and combining it with modern technology like cloud computing, machine learning, big data analytics, Artificial Intelligence…
What Do You Really Mean by Evidence-Based Care?
Evidence-based care in healthcare involves the process of researching and collecting evidence and then evaluating and implementing the findings to improve patient care and outcomes. Healthcare professionals constantly require to question and justify their actions and decisions so that they can give their patients a…
Guidelines for Hospitals to Measure The ROI On Health IT Investments
The healthcare industry is moving towards a value-based care model that intersects with population-based care. Owing to this shift, health IT investments are climbing up the priority list for healthcare providers. Technology, after all, is the great enabler of efficiencies and profitability. While the importance…