| |October 202193. Patient Wearable Integration.Even though all the above technologies were in place, there was a challenge in terminally ill or monitoring required patients, as none of these technologies were able to track and monitor the patient parameters in regular intervals and consolidate them into an analyzable format. Here comes the importance of wearable health devices which are popular now among a huge population worldwide. This has been integrated into real-time patient information, for the caregivers to analyze. Each of these wearable device companies owns huge personal health records, but it is a challenge to correlate these data concerning the patient identity and hospital policies on data collection.4. Tele - ICUMany of the countries have a huge shortage of intensive patient care, which is a critical area of the patient support. This is due to the lack of proper intensive care infrastructure, lack of highly skilled intensivists, etc. A solution to this was accepted widely during the pandemic era, as briefed below.Tele-ICU solutions, wherein the expert intensivists of a territory care hospital can monitor beds of other ICU beds using technology. Even if the infrastructure of the recipient clinic is not adequate too, the same can be made visible to the hub hospital with connectivity and some basic devices at the recipient end. Territory hospitals setup command centers to have full-time monitoring of these beds in real-time, and communicate instructions to the recipient facility. This made a huge transformation in increasing the ICU beds in remote undeveloped hospitals, with the best care provided to the patients.5. Tele-SurgeryTele surgery is another evolved technology by which the surgeries could be aided in remote areas by the expertise of doctors in the larger healthcare facilities. This is achieved through some software solutions wherein the remote doctors can view the surgery live and provide instructions as and when required. This increased the expertise of the clinicians and enabled them to carry out complex surgical cases in remote locations, which proper aids. Connectivity is the only dependency to implement this technology, and that is available across the world nowadays. There are many known and robust solutions in this space that are widely implemented in many healthcare facilities in many countries.6. Increasing Cloud InfrastructureHealthcare facilities have started to move to the cloud to cater to various IT implementations. Due to the huge data growth and volume and scalability challenges, hosting a HIMS in-house has challenges considering infrastructure and storage costs and also the portability of data.Most of the HIMS products have been migrated to cloud-based technologies to ensure that the cloud strategies of organizations are taken care of and the same is accessible to the right patients through proper security measures.7. Patient connect through Mobile Apps.Usage of Mobile apps was one of the increased patterns in the internet space, due to more people adopting smart devices in their personal space. The Healthcare world also exploited this opportunity, to built native mobile apps for their hospital, which would enable patients to get the doctor schedules, services, teleconsultations, and clinical records. This is well accepted by the regular patients of a hospital, as the information is available anytime with them.Initially, hospitals used to depend on the common platform apps, which would cater to multiple doctors across different facilities in a city, but due to the loss in focus to the specific brand, this has been moved into native mobile apps of their hospitals.8. EHR optimization and accessibilityEHR optimization is a process of refining EHR to serve care-providers own requirements and lead to focus on clinical productivity and efficiency. This includes access of the records to patients anywhere as a portable health record digitally. Major areas are · Reduce information overload in clinical notes.· Specialized clinical workflows· Health IT tools to improve usability.· Involve nursing informatics.· Integrate pump device data to EHRAcknowledgmentsThanking all healthcare IT publications/organizations/ journals and MNC's who contribute to the digital healthcare technology world and make the same a well-supported network. I would like to express my sincere gratitude towards all the healthcare organizations where I worked, and the leaders who inspired and guided me. Mohanachandran
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