How to Decide on A New Technology for Your Hospital
Technology is playing a crucial role in the current situation, with COVID-19 spreading so rampantly across the world. Robots are disinfecting the hospital premises and carrying meals to patients, drones are carrying medical supplies, and artificial intelligence (AI) is sorting scans to detect infection. It’s…
The Data Storage Challenges of the Healthcare Industry
Data is gold. As rehashed as it sounds, data in healthcare is paramount to extend au fait medical care and largely drives preventive healthcare on the whole. Smart hospitals encourage modern technologies to collect, use, and implement patient data. They use IoT-based healthcare devices along…
Technology Can Help Nurses Become More Effective – Here is How
There is a worrying trend in Malaysia that’s giving the government and healthcare authorities sleepless nights. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), Malaysia would need 130,000 nurses in all specializations by this year. The recommended patient-nurse ratio is 1:200. However, with less than 3,000…
How to Prevent Tech from Adding to a Clinician’s Load?
Technology is rapidly disrupting the healthcare space. Today, more and more physicians use Electronic Health Records to capture patient care information, analytics tools to predict illnesses and personalize care, and other revolutionary technologies to facilitate better care. They are surrounded by tech and solutions that…
How Smart Technology Can Help Reduce Healthcare Costs
Despite the gradual adoption of technology by the healthcare industry, not many are able to reduce healthcare costs and achieve good margins because they are not leveraging technology to its fullest potential. With rising labor costs, demographic shifts, and an uncertain regulatory climate, the time…
Read This if You Want to Make a Career as an IoT Expert In Healthcare Industry
A decade ago, it was impossible to imagine getting real-time updates on your pulse rate or your blood pressure during your morning run. Today, you can get all that information right on your mobile phone or a wristwatch. You can even share the data with…
Let’s Talk about Healthcare Data Management
Before we get into healthcare data management, let us have a brief understanding of what data management is and why is it essential in the current context. Data management is a piece that comes into the picture once all the data is ported to a…
Why Hospitals Must Focus on EHR Scalability
EHRs (Electronic Health Records) is one of the fundamental steppingstones to transformative healthcare. In 2016, an analysis stated that EHR adoption is “nearly universal” among acute care hospitals, as 96% of facilities live on the technology. In another separate study, almost 99% of hospitals had…
Five Technologies That Can Give Your Hospital A Competitive Edge
Recently, Malaysia was ranked first in the best healthcare in the world category of 2019 International Living Annual Global Retirement Index. It was also ranked first for its sophisticated healthcare infrastructure by the International Living website. Malaysia has also identified nine hospitals to boost medical…
Healthcare Consumerism and What It Means to Hospitals?
Health Consumerism is broadly defined as “a movement that advocates patients’ involvement in their own healthcare decisions. It is a movement from the ‘doctor says/patient does’ model to a ‘working partnership’ model.” Health consumerism takes notes from the retail industry. The retail industry places a high…