Wristbands that monitor how many miles you walk, run, or how much calories you burn during a workout or how accurate is your pulse, heart rate and sleep cycles, thumb devices that check your blood pressures or oxygen level and share it with your family physician through smartphones – the intrusion of IT technology in health-care sector is indeed phenomenal and transformative at the same time. It is propelling health care industry like never before.
All these IT technologies are waking up Physicians to what we call the era of personalized healthcare. The infrastructure is driven by more meaningful and convenient individual health-care experience through intelligent information system. Digitizing and streamlining health data (in a secured way) is creating dramatic effects in patient management and significant cost savings.
Healthcare industry has started building intelligent healthcare IT infrastructure around these tools and gadgets to improve patient care for better outcomes. Now providers can remain connected with their patients and monitor if they are following the prescription routines and look out for any early-warning signal. Social media is allowing hospitals to reach out to staff, patients, and the general public in new and modern ways, and also connect with the younger audiences.
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