Healthcare

Healthcare through Virtual Care and Digital Therapeutics

While virtual care developers hope to effectuate a metamorphosis in the global healthcare culture, IT will play a critical role in creating an environment that is accessible, humane, and practical. In this article, we take a quick look at Digital Therapeutics & Virtual Care – what we have achieved so far and what we need to look ahead to.

How Digital Technology Can Help Manage Chronic Diseases

Can anything replace a clinicians trained judgement of a patient’s condition? Probably not. But emerging technology in healthcare is making it increasingly possible to deliver the right care at the right time - to a degree of accuracy impossible for human fallibility. In this blog we look at how the healthcare domain can boldly rethink Chronic Disease Management using digital technology, when controlling medical, behavioral, and socioeconomic factors becomes difficult for traditional models of healthcare delivery.

Revolutionizing Diagnostics with IT: An Overview

The Health IT industry encompasses a wide range of powerful healthcare technological tools, from EHRs and patient engagement tools to medical imaging information tools and diagnostics software. In this blog, we take a look at some of the new trends in this seminal field.

Overcoming Obstacles on the Digital Healthcare Expressway: The Role of IT

The latest trends in Digital healthcare casts itself as a tour de force in the medical sector. While we are fast approaching a world where teleconsultations are no less commonplace than online shopping, the challenges faced by the field today makes it an uphill task for companies as well as customers. In this blog, we look at the biggest hurdles in telehealth solutions, keeping in mind that to gather the momentum to leap past, we must first prepare, indeed , by taking a few steps back.

How edge computing will transform the healthcare industry

With the many advantages that edge computing brings to the table, including faster processing time for data, non-reliance on bandwidth availability, and network reliability – all of which can save a life in a field where every second of response time counts - edge computing has proven to have the power to completely transform the way the healthcare industry functions. In this blog, we take a look at how it works, what its use cases are in healthcare, and how we can overcome the challenges ahead.

How Artificial Intelligence is Revolutionizing the Health Insurance Industry

Digital disruption has invariably affected the health insurance industry. Various players in the industry are now leveraging the latest digital technologies such as Artificial intelligence (AI), Big Data Analytics, and the Internet of Things to improve their offerings overall. As predicted by Accenture, the majority of insurance executives believe that artificial intelligence (AI) will significantly transform the industry, and McKinsey estimates that the potential total annual value of the AI and Analytics industry will be $1.1 trillion if it is applied to its full potential in the Insurance domain.

How data analytics is transforming the healthcare Sector

Technology is changing the way data is collected, stored, managed, visualized, and utilized in the healthcare sector. This access to data & analytics has caused many notable changes in the way the healthcare sector operates by opening up new avenues for the accuracy of diagnosis, prevention of disease, tracking the effectiveness of treatment, and providing safe medications. Read on to learn more about how data analytics is transforming healthcare.

Safeguarding Patient Privacy in the Digital Age

Healthcare privacy is a complex issue. There is a delicate balance between keeping patient data private and sharing it between medical professionals to improve the care needs of patients. The introduction of PCM/ EHR systems in medical institutions have also renewed the call for stronger healthcare privacy laws around the world. Let’s take a comprehensive look at what patient privacy means, why it's important, and what governments world-over are doing to protect their citizens. 

Top 5 trends in healthcare IT technology

A recent  article published by New York Times claimed that a deep learning algorithm was able to screen for lung cancer with 94% accuracy. The system was even able to match and sometimes even beat, 6 expert radiologists who were part of the study. This news might sound sensationalist for most outsiders, but for people […]