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The healthcare today is booming at a faster rate and it has started to embrace newer technologies that would push the industry into the future. The increasing necessity for innovation and advancement in all aspects of healthcare has incited the industry to adopt new technological changes into mainstream healthcare. One such major transformation happening in the recent is the emerging use of Big Data and Analytics in healthcare. As of now, the digitized medical records and the efforts to make reams of healthcare data searchable and actionable is leading the industry to an informational tipping point. While there have been significant impacts of Big Data in several other industries, in healthcare, its ability to increase operational efficiency and uncover deep health insights and analytics is making it a crucial ingredient for future healthcare. Healthcare professionals and providers are beginning to understand the potential of big data analytics in today’s healthcare scenario and ...

With the global spend projected to rise and the healthcare costs spiraling out of control, affordable and sustainable healthcare delivery is what is being sought-after for the future generations.But for this, it is necessary to rethink the way healthcare services and delivery are provided and managed. In that direction, hospitals are envisioning digital technologies as a potential solution that would herald a new model of healthcare known as the ‘smart’ healthcare. As a result, smart hospitals would soon become a reality, offering seamless, patient-centric, outcomes-based healthcare at a relatively low cost, thus contributing to achieve optimal customer satisfaction and better revenue margins. The healthcare industry that is growing by leaps and bounds in terms of technology and innovation is practically under constant pressures to improve its productivity and operational efficiency. With the technological revolution on the rise, the healthcare industry continues to automate, inn...

The emergence of digital health and technology has certainly pushed the healthcare industry into a new era of ‘smart’ innovation. Smart technology and wearable are on the rise,providing a new frontier to improve patient care and impact the overall healthcare experience of both patients and providers. With wearable tracking technology, it is possible to track and collect data that can be worked into patient care across the healthcare continuum for a better and much-improved health outcome. Wearable tracking devices like Fitbit, smart-watches, and heart-rate monitors are revolutionizing the healthcare industry and changing the way healthcare is approached across the board to improve patient care and promote positive health outcomes. In this modern era, a piece of technology in hand or pocket can monitor and track several biological factors and store them as accessible data for medical purposes. Anything from heart rates and sleep cycles to stress levels and physical exercise perfor...

With the healthcare industry growing leaps and bounds, there is a dire need to focus on delivering better healthcare services in a cost-effective way. As a result, healthcare providers are on the lookout to develop a sustainable model of healthcare delivery that benefits patients and healthcare providers alike. For this, the industry needs to return to its patient-centered care model that empowers patients and strives to provide better and affordable healthcare. There is need not be any arguing about the fact that improving the relationship between consumers and the services would benefit in delivering high-quality care and services. Indeed, a personalized and coordinated patient-centered care with compassion and respect for the consumers is what can provide the right framework to address the existing healthcare challenges. Today, patient-centered healthcare model continues to remain as a strategy that would help bring a positive impact on clinical effectiveness and deliver a val...

In the past few years, there has been an exponential increase in the use of internet and technology within all sectorsincluding thehealthcaresector. With the world becoming increasingly wireless and connected, the penetration of wearables and IoT devices into healthcare is currently soaring.New technologies are set to transform the industry for better, enhancingits operational efficiency and improving a number of the crucial services provided at the healthcare facilities. In that sense, constant growth in the capability of new healthcare technologies has heralded the prospect of a new-age healthcare model – the smart healthcare. The need to deliver optimal care and simultaneously reduce healthcare costs has driven the healthcare industry into the use of smart technology. High-speed Wi-Fi capabilities and sensors built into wearable devices have generated a great potential for smart technology to make its ingress into the modern healthcare solutions. The use of smart technology in...

With the healthcare sector ushering in new waves of innovation and technology, digitization and technological integration is just impossible to ignore. But the increasing indulgence of technology in healthcare has its own share of risks and disadvantages. Even though healthcare organizations are building robust and complex IT environments to strengthen their data efficiencies and security systems, there exists an infinite array of vulnerabilities. In the wake of high-profile security breaches, cyber threats, phishing attacks, hackings, and ransomware incidents, data security cannot be overlooked. That too for healthcare organizations, it must be the number one priority concern, alongside patient care, as it can put the patient privacy and the healthcare facility at great risk. In today’s Information Age, healthcare interoperability is quickly evolving and becoming integral to organizations, making the Big Data more complex and unwieldy. The high volatile changes in the healthcare...