INTELLIGENT HEALTH
“Health IT
will need to
bring data,
applications,
and analytics
together in a
meaningful
way.”
Data Lakes define the
future of healthcare
Roberta Katz, Director,
Dell EMC Global Solutions,
Healthcare – Life-Sciences,
gives Intelligent CIO her
opinion on how advancements
in technology can improve
healthcare for patients with
changing expectations.
W
e are all part of the
‘Information Generation’
a growing community of
digital citizens that puts the world’s
information at our fingertips. As both
patients and consumers of healthcare
information, our expectations for
preventative care and wellness,
diagnosis speed and treatment, and
disease management are changing.
With these new possibilities, come
new opportunities to close the gap
between the promise and reality of big
data analytics to increase efficiencies,
improve patient-provider collaboration,
and enable data-driven decisions.
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According to research by Dell
Technologies, only 37% of the public
healthcare sector is embracing the new
digital wave.
Yet evolving trends for digital
transformation come at a time when
healthcare organisations are already
facing challenges to optimise their
Electronic Health Record (EHR) and
make the transition to value-based care
reimbursement models.
To succeed in this new accountable
care environment, health IT will need to
bring data, applications, and analytics
together in a meaningful way using
the next generation of predictive and
prescriptive analytics technologies.
Patients as consumers - empowered
patients - are also asking for faster
access to services, personalised
experiences, 24/7 access and
connectivity and access on more devices.
In order for hospitals and health systems
to adopt this digital mindset enterprise-
wide, healthcare leaders say they will
need to deliver against these five top
business imperatives:
• Predictively spot new opportunities:
population health management,
value-based care, patient-centred
medical home
• Demonstrate transparency and trust:
treatment options and success rates,
access to secure medical records
• Innovate in an agile way: clinical
research, clinical integration, Internet
of Things (IoT)
• Deliver unique, personalised
experiences: 360 patient view,
wearables, genomics, precision
medicine
• Be always-on, operating in real
time: telemedicine, mHealth,
medication adherence
To embrace these business imperatives,
healthcare leaders will need to use
information in new ways – where the
collection, analysis, and capitalisation
of data becomes a core component of
their business strategy.
Healthcare providers need improved
analytics capabilities to translate data
into actionable insights to make informed
decisions around business performance,
patient engagement, and innovation.
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