Today’s model of healthcare provision is becoming increasingly unsustainable. To deliver continued improvements to the world’s health, healthcare will need to be transformed, with technology playing a central role. Digital Transformation is leading the way in reshaping the healthcare landscape along with opportunities and challenges around accountable care organization formation, healthcare reform, consumer centricity, cost-containment and the shift to a retail consumer-based model. Digital is supporting and accelerating the systemic shift to value-based healthcare.
Market forces, consumerization and cost saving initiatives driving the industry, dramatic changes in regulatory rules and concerns over sustainability – combined with advances in technology and the ability to better predict and manage health care risk – are creating a unique opportunity for broad health care industry transformation aimed toward convergence.
Yet to become a fully digital organization, providers cannot simply adopt pieces of technology without a clear and integrated digital strategy across the entire organization and IT infrastructure.
Healthcare providers must capture, store and accurately analyze all information to generate insights that offer the best patient care. This can only be achieved by leveraging data analytics and a technology infrastructure that seamlessly integrates information generated from multiple inputs