Every year we see numerous list articles predicting how hot health IT trends will change the industry. This year, analyst Expect to see telemedicine continue to mature and specialize, grow and expand using wearables and IoT devices for remote patient monitoring AI/ML support Provider efficiency and use cases for personalized medicine.
Despite a thoughtful analysis of these forecasts, we have been working hard to realize the aspirations of large-scale trends.If we go back to the past trend forecast 20 years Previously, leading institutions were just beginning to look forward to the shift to consumer-centric care.Fast forward to our current decade, and 42% of healthcare consumers Despite a lot of innovation in this area, in 2020, they still feel they don’t have access to the right digital tools and applications to meet their needs. To ensure that new digital health innovations not only stick but also deliver a truly patient-centric and provider-friendly care experience, healthcare needs to build a higher level of fundamental connectivity across its ecosystem.
Another example is telemedicine: after a drastic increase in mandatory adoption in 2020, there is not a single forecast article for 2021 no Talking about telehealth is about to take off.Subsequent increases in digital health funding 138% In the first half of 2021, telehealth accounted for 30% of all funding.Expanding patient access levels, telehealth usage levels have stabilized at 38x This is an increase from pre-pandemic levels.Those numbers are impressive, but the more money we put into competitive innovation – specifically $4.2 billion 105 transactions In the first half of 2021 alone, we became more fragmented. McKinsey concluded in its latest report: “With the rapid adoption of point solutions overwhelmed by consumers, payers and providers alike, there is a need to better integrate data and improve communication among the various players in the ecosystem. data flow.”
To avoid the “trend trap” that exacerbates the disconnect in medtech after innovation, we must consider how best to continue investing in and building new technologies that enable long-term transformation of care delivery, not just this year’s trends. To realize the promise of 2022 trends from IoT to AI/ML to remote patient monitoring, healthcare organizations must leverage a common architecture that can connect innovation, moving from tactical deployment to seamless integration of digital health across the ecosystem solution. Along the way, healthcare will lay a lasting foundation for connected, people-centred, and scalable healthcare—regardless of the latest and greatest digital health solutions available.
People-centred care: While it’s good to see new digital health funding and innovation focused on patients as consumers (and it’s been a long time since), we also need to remember the other side of the healthcare equation – those who provide care. As healthcare digitizes, we need to ensure that we don’t inadvertently cause an already significant burnout of clinicians, caregivers and staff. As more digital health innovations enter the market and adoption increases, clinicians need a digital infrastructure to ensure digital health activities can be seamlessly integrated into their daily workflow without digital fatigue – Part of that means minimizing screen switching between tools – for fluid hybrid virtual/in-person care delivery.
Connected Care: With “personalized care” becoming a dominant buzzword in healthcare, more and more healthcare companies are catering to different consumers based on a specific diagnosis or condition.While analysts predict continued growth for the industry, real Personalized for the patient, it needs to be connected to the entire patient health journey. Easier said than done; most new health tech solutions create more dots than connections.that’s why 37% of health leaders say lack of interoperability is the number one barrier to deploying digital health solutions in their hospitals or health systems. Healthcare organizations need a scalable platform to ensure connectivity and unify the different points in each patient’s care journey.
Scalable Care: Despite the astounding influx of innovation and funding into digital health, we have yet to see scalable change as we are still planning on the fringes of our vast healthcare system. Traditional players in healthcare—the larger healthcare system and payers—need to be at the center of the digital transformation of healthcare so we can see measurable, scalable change.but it almost takes a normal hospital two years Identify digital health needs, then develop, deploy, and nurture solutions for them — assuming the project is on time and on schedule.fully 80% WHO TODAY said their use of advanced analytics was “negligible”. Digital health innovators also struggle to scale: we hear time and time again how startups get stuck in “pilot” mode and customers can’t really scale quickly. A lot of time and effort is spent navigating the complex web of provider systems, health plans, and employers, even for scale-model solutions. Scalable healthcare requires all healthcare players to be able to innovate at a faster pace, starting with coordination rather than fragmentation.
To capitalize on the latest trends while strengthening our ability to deliver connected, person-centred care at scale, the healthcare ecosystem needs scalable platforms and digital fabrics that unite current and future solutions from healthcare providers and innovators. Healthcare companies need to be able to connect and activate data from any data source for a unified patient view, inject this data into customizable workflows for a better provider experience, and design new, fully integrated, data-driven capabilities to create the scalable changes in healthcare we seek. Through this digital strategy, we will ensure that each health technology solution is no longer a piecemeal innovation – this year’s “trend” – but an element of a holistic, connected ecosystem of healthcare that enables scalable people-centric care.
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