Digitalization has accelerated across various sectors, especially post Covid. There has been an emergence of new solution domains within Digital Engineering across sectors like healthcare. Increasingly, companies in the healthcare sector are exploring newer technologies and are creating disruptions with innovative solutions.
Healthcare sector has been at the forefront in the past 2 years. One of the key requirements in the healthcare sector across the globe has been to build a more resilient healthcare system, so in the event of the next crisis, everyone is in a better position to cope with it and that there is continuity of care delivery. Therefore, it is necessary to develop and implement people-centric technologies and challenge ways of working and redefine roles that facilitate better interaction within the teams.
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One critical point that needs more consideration is a thorough look into care pathways. There are many ineffective ways of care pathways with high levels of waste. One must learn from other industries including supply chain or manufacturing industries and implement repeatable and predictable processes and avoid missteps in diagnosis and treatments. Silos existing in healthcare delivery need to be done away with. In many cases, care teams do not have free-flowing information and hence are not able to collaborate with other multi-disciplinary care teams. Further complications are added when the data access is not seamless due to geographical constraints and the effects are felt by the patients as well as the care teams. Technology has a huge role to play in overcoming all these challenges.
Technology can help in remote monitoring of the patient. E.g. for a cardio patient, who had a treatment for a heart problem, can be provided with wearable devices with high acuity monitoring with the same degree of monitoring, had they been in the hospital bed. This can now be enabled from the comfort of the patient’s home. And then one can apply algorithms to that data to monitor the patient 24/7 to see any early detection of any problem or deterioration in the patient’s health to intervene for preventive care and avoid future hospitalization. It is necessary to make use of technology to interpret the patient data.
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