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Future Of Digital Healthcare |
| A revolution is taking place in the healthcare business and practices. The digital information technology is enabling physicians to run their organization much more efficiently than ever before with state of the art technology. Health care across the world is going through transformation with the growing technology every single day. |
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| Healthcare domain undergoes lot of changes consistently "as the gap between disease and medicine is always constant" The newer the medicines that are discovered the complex the diseases that surfaces amongst mankind. Healthcare is growing more expensive and also the chronic diseases increases as the aged population is on rise. So a lot of renowned organizations like Microsoft, Intel, Philip and Google across the world are working towards future healthcare technologies that would transform the way healthcare is performed. This transformation would completely digitalize the way healthcare works and in the future people at home can be more independent and interact with their general practitioners and hospitals even without being physically present. Things like body censors that can convey information's wirelessly and freeing the practitioners from the data collection activity. Wireless pills that are powered by stomach acid that can send acidity data and temperature to a censor via electronic impulse using the body as a conductor. Electronic patch that can monitor the congestive heart failure condition for which constant and periodical surveillance is very crucial. So using this patch the physician can monitor the patient's vials and other details electronically. These are some of the examples of how digitalization can change healthcare performance. |
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| Healthcare legislation is in headlines recently for the US$30 billion in the ARRA (American recovery and reinvestment act) of 2009 is allocated to HIT investments(Health information technology).This initiative from the US Government has forced the people associated in the healthcare domain to take notice and gear their origination to focus on information and communication technology. This means that in the future the healthcare cost can be reduced and increase quality of patient care. The ARRA money is used by the government to give an incentive to encourage adoption of electronic health records. A few benefits of ICT can bring the health care organizations include: |
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Sharing diagnostic information electronically with picture archiving and communication system (PACS) to store and access data images generated. |
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Improved communication and collaboration between systems or within the organization. |
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Prevention of errors and improving the accuracy by arriving at the right diagnosis and recommending the right medications. Which is all inter-linked with each other and technology makes it possible. |
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A high level of medical team collaboration allows videoconferencing and telemedicine possible. |
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Increased physical security and access to hospitals with the help of electronic authentication. |
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By having an electronic tracking system for the supplies and inventory leads to cost saving and efficient usage of resources. |
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| The future of healthcare with the advent of technology and the support of the Government regulation for sure going to be far more exciting and innovate in the coming years. And we are not far from the day were there would be no hospitals and clinics and people getting virtual healthcare treatment. That's the future of healthcare which would make healthcare affordable, less time consuming and easy access. If at all it can be achieved that's only through technology and digitalization. And the future of healthcare is the digital world. |
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