Natalia Sniadanko

Electronic Health Record system (EHR) is the standard practice in hospitals today. But it doesn’t mean that all problems have been solved for healthcare professionals. Besides the great benefits of the care delivery automation, now, for each hour spent in contact with patients, physicians spend another hour operating an EHR, which often takes their personal time and leads to burnout.

Healthcare digital transformation has been a boon over the last time. According to statistics, the global market for digital healthcare transformation will grow from $76 billion in 2018 to $210 billion in 2025. Providers adopt new technologies that change the healthcare industry rapidly and help to improve patients’ outcomes.

Artificial intelligence and ML-based solutions are changing medical care. Healthcare AI solutions are a reality in many fields and specialties of medical help. Machine learning (ML), deep learning (DL), natural language processing (NLP), and AI identify healthcare needs and help work faster, and with more accuracy. They use data patterns to make informed medical or business decisions quickly.

An electronic health record (EHR) is a digital version of a patient’s paper medical chart and is crucial to maximizing profits while providing the highest quality of care. The implementation process can take time and be costly, but the benefits compared with paper records far outweigh the costs of electronic medical records. To help your organization adopt an EHR system quickly and efficiently, you have to include your staff in the decision-making process. This article describes how to develop and effectively implement EHR software and how much does an EHR system cost.

COVID-19 has been the hot topic for us over the last months, but now it looks like we are returning to something like a new reality. The whole world is searching for ways to prepare for this. And, of course, employers need help to enable their employees to a safe work environment as possible.

Can technology help us in the fight against the virus? There are already a lot of solutions developed to protect people from getting infected. For example, the “Stop Corona” app from the Austrian Red Cross society. It keeps an anonymous contact diary that logs personal encounters using a “digital handshake.” If somebody has symptoms of COVID-19, all those who “have digitally shaken hands” with that person will be automatically informed about one of their anonymous contacts showing signs of an infection. All these people are asked to isolate themselves to reduce the infection’s risk. This way, fewer people will be exposed to potential diseases. Additionally, this system supports and relieves doctors who would otherwise have to go through this process manually.

Most of us never think about our breathing; it’s just something we do. For example, research by Lung Foundation Australia shows that almost half of all Australians rarely or never think about their lung health. Despite this, almost two-thirds of Australians reported that they had experienced at least one lung-related health issue. People often assume that there are symptoms of aging or lack of fitness. Any problem that prevents the lungs from working properly is called lung disease – this may be lung circulation, lung tissue, or a disease of the airways. There are over 30 arts of lung disease, beginning from influenza and asthma to occupational lung disease and lung cancer. And don’t forget about COVID-19 pandemic!

Poor systems deliver poor results, and, in the case of US healthcare, the pile of problems has been growing for years. From lack of transparency to high costs and administrative inefficiency, the system has created an environment where patients and medical staff suffer. During the global pandemic of COVID-19, all of those pain points have only intensified and got worse.

According to the analytical agency Frost&Sullivan, the market for digital medical solutions in 2021 amounted to $6 billion. At the same time, annual growth approached the 40% mark. This means that in the world’s developed countries, there is a significant growth in electronic medical records, the possibility of remote patient management, and the sale of medicines via the Internet.

Healthcare companies — providers or payers — have historically relied on computers for administrative tasks. However, new use cases have emerged as technology matured and the industry digitized. Today, hardly any clinic operates without a fleet of computers to store and manage patient/facility data, monitor patients and equipment, perform operations, and research.

Smart healthcare is the future of the healthcare system. This revolution is already impacting the daily work of healthcare professionals and the practice of patient care. The changes taking place can provide solutions to many problems. Still, they also require us to rethink how we organize the health system, shifting the focus from treatment to primary prevention. The main feature of the predictive analytics market in the healthcare sector is that it is global and rapidly developing. In 2018 the market size was a modest $2.9 billion. However, it is expected to grow at an average of 28.9% per year, and, according to Meticulous Research, will reach $84.2 billion in 2027. Let’s see how is predictive analytics used in healthcare.

VITech is pleased to reveal the results of the State of data science and ML in healthcare survey that we conducted on LinkedIn in 2019. The survey sought to look into the scope and patterns of data science and machine learning adoption in the healthcare industry. Over 50 qualified respondents represented a variety of company sizes, from startups to corporations with more than 10,000 employees, in the pharma, care sector, biotechnology, and medical device development. Among them: are C-level execs, directors, and VPs (50% of the pool), as well as ML engineers, data scientists, and software developers. The surveyed have a firm grasp of the industry’s challenges and objectives, enabling us to analyze and assess the trends and the actual state of tech in healthcare.