Medicine 4.0 – “Advantage digitization”
Posted by
Darshan Gandhi, M.D., M.B.A.
11/15/2016
Digital healthcare strategies and beyond.... Medicine 4.0 and digitization are becoming just buzz words! The reason – inaction and inertia in implementation of an all-inclusive IT infrastructure. The possibilities with digitization of healthcare are immense, but merely talking about them is not going to enable the change. Communications and operations in the healthcare system are crucial to superior and improved healthcare. Innovative digital technology has the capability of bringing in change and improvements in medical care to patients and the quality of healthcare in general. Several opportunities of modern medicine are being underutilized much to the detriment of the public and healthcare participants as well. Yet, digitization cannot be seen as an end in itself but is only a means to an end. How do health care organizations completely and comprehensively integrate digital in their healthcare systems? How are healthcare organizations to implement digital technology in their scope in order to efficiently process and achieve additional benefits for all the people involved? What requirements need to be met in order to digitize healthcare and which ones can be genuinely fulfilled? In this article we bring you answers to many of these questions and help you understand how to implement the change and integration which requires that the systems use state-of-the-art technology.