Digital prowess and its capability in recent times have shown what next-gen possibilities could be unlocked once tapped correctly. We have seen in the past couple of years that the growth of digitalization in heavily regulated spaces such as healthcare has taken a massive foot forward. Yet it is a bit slowed on future gen and forward-looking path by focusing more on what is present can be achieved quickly.
The Healthcare industry at present is still in the phase of testing and trialing upon tech play to channel the 3 key-value pillars that are ROI, patient volume, and cost-cutting mechanism. However, the major underlining still remains undiscovered i.e. tech infrastructure ploy to bring entire hospital technology to systemize around one platform.
Multiple layers of digital tech usage at different fronts not only complicate user role usage but it leads to multiple data losses and incomplete usage of the same to help the entire hospital lifecycle to take a step forward.
Presently, multiple patient touchpoints are present within the hospital that can be brought under one roof to optimize hospital operational efficiency. The existing system and processes used by the hospital are disjointed which creates a lot of friction whenever a new implementation on the top of an existing system is required. These IT systems are inhibiting the decision-making power at various levels to create a loss of patient experience value and increased cost in the overall process. Thus, digital literacy and one proper infrastructure establishment at the hospital to coalesce inter and intra operation is a need of the hour.
Conclusion
We believe a data-fabric-based approach on top of the cloud and AI compatibility is what the future is demanding in the industry. The sustenance of IT needs to have EMR merged with AI to instantiate a quick action-based approach within the hospital lifecycle to utilize IT at its best. Without a doubt, digital privacy, data protection, and user-based intervention must be ensured above all. But these can be totally ensured once the move and step have been taken towards the direction of Web 3.0 where everything moves to the cloud which ensures end-to-end EMR data encryption and unlocks further new possibilities for healthcare.
