Telemedicine has been shown to improve the capacity of healthcare providers to manage patient care efficiently, without the need for physical presence. This has led to better coordinated care and has the potent
Frugal innovation's contribution towards the improvement of healthcare systems.Tackling global health inequalities by providing low-cost but efficacious solutions.Describing antecedents, processes, and outcomes of frugal innovation in healthcare.doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.115127Soumodip Sarkar...
In this article, we provide a perspective on the hurdles specific to healthcare and offer a framework to healthcare leaders as they shape and strengthen their resilience plans to improve operations and provide seamless patient care.Why technology resilience is hard...
Understandably, users and other healthcare stakeholders adhering to the edict of "first, do no harm" might hesitate to rely on artificial intelligence or embrace its potential if they fear inaccuracy or bias.Finally, users tend to distrust healthcare systems by default, regardless of AI ...
restrictive legal mandates. That’s why successfully compiling, tracking as well as monitoring statistical trends, KPI’s and financial insights is what has led the healthcare industry to effectively improve clinical performance by measuring intake metrics like length of stay, drop rate, and visit...
000 registered nurses and 50,000 to 80,000 physicians by 2025 as demand for care rises and supply lags. Reversing this trend will require health systems to take a multipronged approach to recruiting, retaining, and retooling their workforces, and to meet the needs of their frontline workers ...
The OECD conceptualize resilience in a disruption cycle (Figure 1 -‘Health Systems Resilience – OECD’ Citationn.d.) that illustrates four opportunities to improve health system performance in the face of climate change. Figure 1. The resilience cycle, adapted from OECD website – adapted ...
Information technology (IT) is increasingly applied in the health sector. Applications of information and communication technologies (ICT) to the health sector include Electronic Patient Records, Health Information Systems (HIS), the setup of Intranets and secure Extranets via the Internet...
Business intelligence systems can also facilitate scenario modeling and predictive analytics. By analyzing historical data and current indicators, organizations can simulate different scenarios, assess the potential impact of various decisions, and make informed choices to improve patient outcomes and operationa...
AI has the potential to revamp the entire healthcare journey for consumers. Consumers experience care across several core journeys, and while these steps need not be chronological, discrete, or the same for each individual, each stage offers opportunities for AI to improve the experience...