The healthcare sector is in the crossover of a major transformation, including changing demographics, patient acuity, and rapidly advancing technology. A core element of this transformation is the advent of connected healthcare, which can empower physicians to deliver superior results, improved customer experience and increase patient life spans.
Nowadays healthcare ecosystem allows seamless data integration between devices, EHR, wearable’s, etc. Healthcare professionals are leveraging these new technologies and devices to re-invent the way they interact with patients, provide care and improve patients’ quality of life. Connected healthcare can yields significant improvements in patient outcomes, including substantial reductions in hospitalization, mortality rates, and medical costs.
Healthcare IT leaders in today’s digital era face a two-way edge sword; great opportunity and a scary challenge: deriving value from massive volumes of data while meeting sharp demands for data privacy with increasing data breached every year. Healthcare IT leaders must reevaluate their approach to key initiatives across population health, patient engagement, and care coordination.
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