Seemingly on a daily basis there are more healthcare innovations and technological breakthroughs occurring the healthcare industry. These come just in time as the industry is now facing challenges we’ve never seen.
Is your medical practice equipped to take advantages of these technological innovations and how can technology help improve your patient care?
Modern Healthcare Industry Challenges
Data management, government compliance, and medical information security all top the headaches (no pun intended) for the healthcare industry. This is because all of these require heavy investments in IT solutions, staff, and systems.
This is compacted further by physicians seeing increased patient volume due to an aging population and more people with insurance coverage. Luckily, a new concept called “telemedicine” can help alleviate some of this overflow if the physician has the technology in place.
Healthcare Industry Technology Solutions
One trending avenue for improving businesses in the healthcare industry through technology is by employing a systems development lifecycle (SDLC) framework. An SDLC is a multi-step, iterative process that allows ideas to transform into repeatable projects with high likelihoods of operational success.
By following a patient’s journey through healthcare, the delivery becomes more effective, the medical care itself becomes higher quality and the cost (relative to other delivery methods) becomes lower.