Blog Summary:
In this blog post, we explore three of the main benefits of adopting new or custom technology in healthcare, focusing on how advanced systems and tools like AI, telehealth, and hospital management systems drive efficiency, improve accessibility, and enhance the quality of care.
The types of technologies influencing the healthcare industry continue to evolve at breakneck speed. Not only that, new use cases for existing technologies are being discovered and iterated upon every day.
From various types of artificial intelligence to telemedicine, today’s healthcare technologies provide numerous opportunities to improve patient care, while creating efficiencies and enhancing healthcare accessibility.
While both benefits and challenges of technology in healthcare exist, for most healthcare providers, the benefits far outweigh any potential challenges.
Curious to learn why that is? We invite you to read about our top three benefits of advanced technology in healthcare (with examples) to see exactly why adopting them might just be the best decision you haven’t yet made.
1. Efficiency
Technologies like artificial intelligence are being applied to healthcare in new ways daily. Such is the case for medical diagnosis and research software and AI/ML-enhanced hospital management systems. New healthcare technologies such as these are key drivers of efficiency (and accuracy) for healthcare providers.
For instance, say you want to upgrade your hospital management system.
Adopting an advanced HMS could streamline or even automate administrative processes like patient registration and billing. It could also help consolidate patient data, leading to faster access to key information.
An advanced HMS might also streamline communication between key personnel while making it easier to make data-driven decisions that better benefit patients.
This is just one example: there are countless other healthcare technologies driving efficiency every day, from predictive analytics to mobile health apps and more.
2. Accessibility of Care
Speaking of mobile health apps, they are one of the key healthcare technologies making care more accessible. Along with other telehealth technologies including connected wearables, mobile health apps make it easier for the elderly or those living in rural areas with a lack of quality care to access the care resources they need to survive and thrive.
Thankfully, making it easier for patients to access the care they need also offers huge financial benefits, as telehealth presents a $247 billion opportunity for the healthcare industry.
Here’s an example of how leveraging custom telehealth technology can improve the accessibility of care.
AI transcription service Target Robot came to us wondering how we could partner with them to come up with a viable, flexible application that can automate the transcription of telehealth appointments, while ensuring documentation and billing needs.
We designed and developed a scalable application to reduce documentation time and compliance risk while increasing both ROI and usage of evidence-based care.
3. Quality of Care
Various technologies, like wearables, directly benefit the quality of care healthcare providers are equipped to offer. AI-powered diagnostic tools help too, improving both diagnostic accuracy and efficiency.
But the benefits of using technology in healthcare aren’t only direct. Think about what not upgrading your healthcare facility’s technologies could lead to.
Imagine the process of improving your healthcare operations with new technologies like a dieter eating to gain weight, maintain weight, or lose weight.
What if your healthcare organization is aiming to create efficiencies and improve patient care (“lose weight”), but you’re already behind the eight-ball and are actually hemorrhaging money or operating inefficiently, maybe without realizing it? This was the case for Communicare before working with us. In this situation, your organization could see immediate benefits of implementing new technologies simply by going from red to black, or going from “gaining” to “maintaining.”
Of course, for organizations who are already operating “in the black,” further improvements are still not only possible, but extremely likely! It’s much easier to focus on enhancing quality of care in a healthy business, after all.
How Can We Help You?
Hiring a healthcare tech consultant is like hiring a personal trainer: doing so can help you understand your organization’s unique strengths, weaknesses, and opportunities to improve your tech stack to deliver more efficient, more accessible, higher-quality care.
We work by asking the right questions to help you continue what you’re doing right and find strategic opportunities to leverage new healthcare technologies and use existing technologies in new ways.
See how we can help you drive revenue, decrease costs, and improve quality of care now: explore our healthcare solutions.
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