Leveraging technology to improve patient experience
Healthcare Radius|May 2020
Cell phones and wearable gadgets are streamlining the purpose of connected healthcare, by enabling one to become responsible for his own health
AMIT SHARMA
Leveraging technology to improve patient experience

Healthcare industry is known to be expansive, holistic, and always up-and-running. It is one of the very few industries where there is always under pressure and managed in a time-poor environment. While employees complain about not having enough time to work, employers are concerned about things being done more manually than automated. It is a dream for several healthcare startups to find out ways to make work more efficient and effective while not overspending their budget.

It isn’t news when technology meets healthcare, it would be the greatest and the most rewarding combination of all times. However, for new startups, it is difficult to suggest which kind of softwares are worth spending money on. It need not be a huge investment to call it successful.

Over the past few years, emergency clinics, facilities, and other healthcare organisations have perceived the power of digitisation in helping professionals treat patients in progressively effective, more affordable ways—while creating better care results. As the need for value care gained more importance, it's the pressure on healthcare pioneers to discover and convey the up and coming age of effective IT services innovation increased.

While earlier, these advancements involved products and services structured particularly for therapeutic situations; but as effective as they were, they were restricted to specific cases, such as operation theaters or ICUs. This left incalculable fields needing new advances to enable them to run more astute, work even more proficiently, and better serve patients. That is the reason, progressively, manufacturers are moving towards digitised customer advancements that we as of now utilise each day.

This story is from the May 2020 edition of Healthcare Radius.

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