How COVID-19 Is Reshaping Healthcare Technology
The corona-virus pandemic has created new patient results throughout the realm of technology. For instance, data interoperability, telehealth, and MedTech have created a pathway for future healthcare that is centered on consumerism.
The pandemic has brought to light all of the challenges that hospitals across the United States face due to resource constraints. However, the epidemic has also presented unique opportunities for firms to come up with tech solutions that help solve such problems. Tech companies are coming up with innovative ways to eradicate the analog health care system and install a new digital revolution.
Below are a few ways that COVID-19 is reshaping healthcare technology.
Increased EHR interoperability
Health care systems across the United States are looking forward to traversing to single EHR to engage with patients at home. This will be enhanced by monitoring devices and virtual visits to manage patients remotely from the comfort of their homes.
The patient’s data will be readily available to any medical expert helping them; thus, patients will benefit more from this as they can receive care while at home. This can be especially helpful for older people or individuals with disabilities.
Increase in digitalized Telehealth
Globally, the number of people suspecting to have come into contact with the virus increases daily, due to the rapid spread of the virus. This has forced people to seek immediate medical counseling from medical experts and doctors.
Nevertheless, the biggest challenge is the non-availability of medical personnel to ascertain whether they have contracted the virus. Currently, qualified medical experts are busy saving lives of corona-virus patients. Thus, they are not in a position to tell the suspected patients who have contracted the virus. Furthermore, the availability of testing varies from state to state.
This is where telehealth is going to help the most. The patient will undergo healthcare advice through the available online communication platforms before being directly admitted to the hospital.
Patient identification
Currently, hospitals across the united states face a severe challenge when it comes to the patient’s identification. The health industry will have to develop a universal strategy to safeguard the patient’s data and information. Microsoft and Allscripts are among the tech firms that are trying to help solve this problem. In the future, patients will be able to store their confidential health data on a tech mechanism. They will be able to provide the information at any given time with no security worries.
Originally published on Thomas Looby’s website.
