The advancement of technology and paradigms based on it has positively influenced all spheres of our lives, more so in the healthcare and pharma industry. The shifting scenario of people’s health and medical care has drastically changed the IT services in New York hospitals and the rest of the world.
Although medical practices and solutions have largely improved, there are clear challenges within the current ecosystem that can be overcome with revolutionizing custom medical software solutions.
Some of the immediate challenges we could think of are:
- Low reach and insufficient care quality in economically backward areas
- High cost and low productivity (in most countries) due to the usage of the bottom-up approach in recreating diagnosis and analysis
- Presence of specialist doctors limited to only metropolitan and class A cities
- Fragmentation of medical knowledge and isolated patients’ information across different entities in the healthcare ecosystem
- Lack of speedy and on-time communication and patient record between pharma and doctors and vice-versa
- Risk of underutilization of infrastructural amenities (nurses, doctors, equipment, beds, wheelchair etc)
We Need Predictive Models to Overcome the Shortfalls
Machine Learning and the advent of telehealth stand a chance to upgrade medical affairs and overcome the shortfall.
At Evenset, our aim is currently focused on providing alternative delivery models, alternative transaction records, and integrated care services through custom healthcare web and mobile applications.
We thrive to provide better information to health care professionals and medical centers, at the point of patient care and management. We promote the value of Machine Learning and its ability to process humongous data sets that are beyond human capability in healthcare.
Our ability lies in converting analysis of data into clinic insights with the help of inventive custom software for medical devices that aid pharma and health care industry professionals in planning and offering care, which in due course leads to better outcomes, lower facility costs, and improved patient experience and satisfaction.
Healthcare software solutions are revolutionizing patient care and communication by increasing efficiency, accessibility, and patients outcomes. In fact, tools and wearable gadgets are giving more support to patients to be proactive in self-care, while providing valuable insights to medical professionals into their patients’ lives.
By equipping themselves with profound product knowledge and disease understanding via information technology, leading pharmaceutical companies are acing in the game. They are able to position themselves better by retrieving and generating high-quality scientific information about products and coaching consumers and stakeholders.
The scope of Technology-Based Solutions – How It Helps the Healthcare Industry
Software applications for medical devices are important for all three – patients, doctors, and pharma. Incredible reasons why healthcare industries are (and should) exploring technology-based solutions are listed below:
Improves Accessibility
Technology-based solutions, such as mobile apps offer a seamless opportunity to receive care for those living in limited access or sparsely populated areas. Video chats and electronic consultations enable patients to access healthcare providers, receive brief consultation, and have questions answered for minor and moderate health concerns. This means patients need not have to drive long distances to get to the provider for prescription refills, common cold, or sore throats.
For basic medical inquiries and routine visits, technology-based solutions produce opportunities to reduce cost, time, and effort in abundance.
EHR Makes Everything Secure, Valuable and Quick
EMR or Electronic Health Record Software is one of the best ways to make data and information systematized, organized, and easily retrievable in healthcare facilities. EHR are real-time, structured, patient-centric records, such as medical histories, diagnosis, test results, radiology images, allergies, and treatment records of patients.
EMR make information instantly accessible to authorized users in a secure way. An EHR system is built to provide more than just clinical data collected from an office computer; in fact, it offers a broader view of patient’s care – allow access to evidence-based tools, and automate and streamline workflow, giving providers the power to perform analysis on a large volume of data through machine learning, to make comprehensive decisions on patient’s treatment.
EHR eliminates the paper-based system, secures, and protects data from corruption. It also gives the power to control and access data, such as set who can update information, who can just read, and the kind of information patients can access. With EHR, pharma and hospitals are able to battle unauthorized data access and manipulation with periodic and systemized data audit.
Everything is stored and retrieved in the cloud, eliminating the chances of data loss.
Scales In-House Experience
This is solely for patients. Hospitals, clinics, diagnostic centers etc. are able to provide comprehensive patient care, right from registering patient details and buying prescribed medicines to surgeries and post care.
Medical software and patient portals let doctors and nurses send reminders to patients via SMS, email, or recorded voice message for prescription refills, next appointment, upcoming surgery, and procedure dates, check on lab test reports etc.
Dedicated and custom healthcare software makes the entire process – patient remote check-in, filling out patient information electronically, scheduling appointment and reappointment, prescribing medicines, and billing – less hassling and inaccurate for care providers, and more comforting to patients.
Reduces Overall Cost
While seeing more patients are something clinics and hospitals attempt to mitigate operational costs, it often leads to unsatisfied experience and questionable effects on patients. Custom medical software solutions, medical apps, and telehealth produce an opportunity for doctors to see more patients having specific doubts and preliminary questions, where they may not require any physical examination.
This way, the clinic management is secured and facility saves more time and resources for treating and attending critical cases. Health care information technology is extremely useful for treating rural communities; doctors are able to reach more people in a shorter period and decrease overall cost by saving transportation cost.
Offers a Dynamic Scheduling System
In most traditional hospitals that are not powered by information technology, the patient-wait time falls anywhere between half hour to seven hours. Now that is a lot, considering the number of cases that come in each day.
Doctors and physicians’ practice stands to lose money and patients if their staffs and management struggle scheduling appointment on the right date and time. Through an effective medical scheduling system, staffs are able to set appointments and perform the rest of the tasks on the fly. From patient reservation, patient wait time, patient next schedule to patient cancellation, everything can be regulated and monitored through an effective scheduling system.
Automation of basic processes creates better ground management, productivity, and harmony. Overbooking, level issues, and physician burnout are eliminated effectively.
Unparalleled Health Care Services
Healthcare technology paves the way to new opportunities, such as follow up care, adherence to plans and counseling patients mentally. For instance, doctors and therapists are able to set care plans for patients who are recuperating from surgeries, illnesses, or diseases, guide them to take their medications, perform exercises, have food on time, and finally watch their progress from a remote location.
Phone applications, telemedicine, and wearable technology can not only increase doctors’ knowledge on patients’ information but can also prompt patients to stay connected with their doctors at the one-on-one level.
Machine learning in healthcare has exponentially advanced. From predicting chronic diseases and treatment plans, preventing hospital-acquired infections and reducing hospital length of stay (LOS) to ultimately reducing mortality rate, predictive data analysis through machine learning can make the practice of medicine more proactive than reactive. The technology challenges tradition and promotes a predictive, proactive and preventive approach to healthcare. There are limitless opportunities for healthcare.
If you are interested in finding out how machine learning can improve healthcare outcomes, contact us today.