Tech Trends In Healthcare This Year

The advancement in technology in the area of healthcare has been said to have benefits that are extraordinary for medical practitioners and patients. Healthcare technology is no threat to medical practitioners. However, there should be great wisdom in using these tools.

As seen and started in most hospitals, the health records are being done handwritten on papers and are being stocked on vast piles of folders. These contain essential medical and personal information of the patients. Years have gone by, and the problem on this type of data recording has been a cycle that has never been solved. Thanks to developers of new technology, there will finally be an alternative to handwritten records (sometimes are too hard to figure out). The Electronic Health Records or HER will be replacing paper records and will make life easier for everyone.

Another part of the technology that will soon take over some tasks is the use of Artificial Intelligence for appointment scheduling, health status monitoring, and the notification of medical assistance. Accordingly, Artificial Intelligence or AI is already widely used in radiology and dermatology.

While AI is already slowly being introduced in healthcare, the IoMT or Internet of Medical Things is also being adopted by medical practitioners. IoMT is a set of medical devices and application software that helps determine and monitor issues on patients before becoming critical.

Moreover, the future in medical technology will also be using existing devices and gadgets that people have right now. There will soon be mobile healthcare applications that are capable of facilitating the medical conditions of patients. For example, the Mobile Ultrasound app that is already in use by some doctors.

These trends in healthcare technology are just some of the few things that are to be introduced to the public. The benefits and reviews have also been positive more than negative.

Healthcare and Technology

Government incentives are the reason so many healthcare organizations and hospitals are embracing EMR technology to obtain the goals needed for meaningful use objectives. Hospitals are now installing systems capable of  of data comparison and forecasting. Clinical intelligence is not just producing a result it can interpret these results, trend them, and then provide predictions for the likelihood of the patients continued improvement or decline. This information can give an immediate feel for the patients well-being and can alert to potential critical situations before  they occur.  Other industries already rely on data mining to forecast consumer behavior for their target populations. Their technology tools are no longer incomplete, inaccurate systems of tape drives and archived data relating only to customers’ names and telephone numbers. Instead, they are large data repositories containing information relating to every facet of what a known customer does in relation to the product offered. Hospitals are now installing systems capable of this level of data comparison and forecasting.

What does this mean?

 Healthcare is gearing up to begin leveraging this same pool of information that traditional businesses use for actionable insights and decision making. The trend is nurse informaticists and  higher education offering medical informatics programs. The production of  leaner markets and tougher competition among healthcare providers and the race for better information will increase. Clinical data and business intelligence will coincide with healthcare and the business of healthcare. Prevention and intervention with immediate bedside reporting on multiple pieces of data will empower nursing with information to improve the patients’ health or prevent onset of a critical decline. This information will ultimately be the difference between who will and who will not have the ability to provide better nursing and hospital care and therefore continue to stay in the healthcare business.