Could 5G Have an Impact on Hospitals and Healthcare?
Across the world, 5G technology is giving a massive boost to digital transformation and revolutionizing industries. With the capacity to carry a massive number of connections at lightning-fast speed, 5G is poised to impact healthcare in a big way. It can allow for telemedicine, real-time…
Let’s Talk About Intelligent Operation Theaters in Smart Hospitals
Intelligence (noun) – “the ability to acquire and apply knowledge and skills” Yes, intelligence is a term previously only associated with the homo sapiens…and the evolved ones at that. Did we think that intelligence would now reside with ‘things’? Inanimate objects today are redefining the…
Why Real-time Supply Chain Management is Important in Healthcare
According to MarketsandMarkets, the value of the healthcare supply chain management market is slated to reach USD 2.22 billion by 2021. In this changing landscape, the stakes for managing the costs and efficiency also increase. This is also evident from Cardinal Health’s survey, which says:…
The Various Aspects of Privacy and Security in A Smart Hospital
Despite the advances in technology, I have come across many healthcare organizations that still function on legacy systems. While such systems face increasing regulation for protecting the security of patient health information, the truth is, data breaches remain common in the industry. Communication between legacy…
How Smart Technologies Can Help Hospitals in Patient Throughput and Capacity Management
Crowded emergency rooms and snaking patient queue, busy personnel always in a rush. Winding corridors and long wait times. A feeling that everything is ready to burst from the seams. An overwhelming sense of being in a space that is running beyond full capacity…where everything…
What Does the Business Administration at A Hospital Care About?
The healthcare industry has seen a sea of change in the last couple of years: from being autonomous to becoming automated, clinician-centric to patient-centric, disjointed to coordinated, reactive to proactive, retrospective to predictive and siloed to aware – if there is one industry which has…
The Various Sources of Operational Intelligence in A Smart Hospital
The patient has become a consumer of healthcare. This concept was alien to the healthcare industry for the longest time. The advent of globalization has also put hospitals under tremendous pressure – to increase patient-centricity, reduce operational costs, increase efficiencies and improve patient outcomes. A…
What is Making Health Data Interoperability the Topic of CXO Discussion
Would it be wrong to say that our ability to seamlessly exchange information has been one of the primary reasons for growth today? Think back to the time when exchanging information meant digging through mountains of documents and physically sharing them. Seems unreal today. As…
The Key Benefits of Predictive Analytics to Hospitals
A few weeks ago I drafted a LinkedIn post on predictive analytics in healthcare. As I wrote, I realized then that this topic needed to be covered in greater detail than what LinkedIn would allow. Analytics, after all, has arguably been one of the most…
6 Things You Should Care About in Your Smart Hospital Transformation Roadmap
Technology is ushering in the dawn of a new day in the healthcare industry. With a growing focus on patient centricity owing to the consumerization of healthcare, we are witnessing the rise of the Smart Hospital. In this new environment, technology assists to reduce waste,…