Digital Transformation in Healthcare industry

The process of going digital has been a boon for any industry. Healthcare industry has been known to be slow in adapting technology but since few last year there has been rapid changes in healthcare industry, it has also taken the path of new and updated digital technologies to perform activities in more effective and efficient manner.

Some of the Key Digital Transformation in Healthcare Industry is as follows:

 Digital transformation, by definition, is about changing the way organizations think and work. There has been some of the key digital transformation in healthcare Industry too, changes like:

Telemedicine

Telemedicine has been the new way of communication between doctor and patient irrespective of their location, it has been successful to omit the distance barrier between doctor and patient, it is the most successful technique to be used in critical and emergency time. Through Telemedicine one can also transfer data like health care information in need from one site to another. It has been the most revolution change in the history of Healthcare Industry.

Medical History on Internet

Earlier doctors and hospital needed to maintain lots of paper work record of patient’s history which made things mess and time consuming, but since the increase in use of mobile, reports and medical history of patient has also move from papers to Mobile medical application. It help the patient and doctor to view their reports 24/7 whenever they need so and also helps hospital to search quick data of the patient without looking for papers. Patient can access to various information like skin temperature, glucose level, and blood pressure readings.

Finding Doctors

There are number of doctors in town but not all are the same you are looking for, you need to match correct doctor relating to your need to get best and appropriate result. Internet has helped people to find the doctor of your type and depending upon your location which has enable people to get proper solution nearby, ratings given by the public also help us to know the amount of trust we can show on the particular doctor.

Medicine app

We leave in a fast moving world where people have no time to do extra things. We have also started to negate our health, ordering medicine online has helped people to track and get medicines without going to various shops and hence saving their time, generally Mobile Medicine apps  also give good amount of discount to its user saving their money too.

AR/VR/MR

The arrival of virtual reality has been boon to medical industries for both medical students and patients. Students now can learn the techniques and method through AR/VR giving them a way of proper learning, and also helps them to show how actually things work. For patients also it allows them to know about the decease or cure in a better way increasing their knowledge relating their decease. From educating new students to planning procedures, the field of AR and VR in healthcare offers serious promises.

Personal doctor app

Now a day’s many doctors have their own application where people can talk to doctor by leaving their query, questions. Thus Doctors can respond to them as soon as possible, it also helps patient to take online appointments, saving their time. It also helps doctor to keep its patient updated of his schedule, about new deceases and its cure and also to post blogs relating current issues which can help patient to take measures as suggested by the doctor.

Robots in hospital

Robots are the new and steady growing technologies in the health care industry, although in some of the big hospitals you can see robots delivering medicines, food and medical supplements, but not many hospitals are looking forward to this change currently, though in a survey it has been said that by 2020 there could be a good rise in robots in hospital.

Wearable’s in Healthcare

Wearable’s are the new technological changes in the healthcare industry, from smart-watch to fit bands people are widely using them to track their fitness level. Smart-watch are generally synced with your mobile health records app. It helps you to track your heart-beat rate, pulse rate, number of steps walked, calories burnt etc. It also helps the patient to monitor blood pressure, oxygen level, body temperatures, measure heartbeats and alert doctors in case of any irregularities. You can even track your ECG through mobile ECG App and also link it to your wearable.      

Conclusion

I hope all this points might help you get some insights of the key digital transformation in health industry. Looking at the current pace of digital transformation sooner or later there would be lot of changes which would help patients to communicate their problem and doctor to respond to a particular problem in a better way. Few more new changes like prescription app, health monitoring apps, pediatrics apps  have add on to  technological changes in health care industry.           

Moreover, digital transformation has made information a top value driver in the healthcare industry, leaving data-driven business models with the potential to re-shape the customer landscape. If the digital transformation keeps happening at the same pace then it is the patients who are at the driving seat as they will get full access to quality specialists and medicinal services offices at an exceptionally reasonable cost.