“Your Healthcare. Your Choice.”

by Shain Waugh

The integration of technology has obviously revolutionized the legacy methods of diagnosing patient, improve treatment tactics, and reduce length of hospital stay care. In a survey with medical facility’s executives, 50% (70 total participants) believe that the integrated technologies improve patient’s safety and operational functionalities. It is obvious that on a global scale there is a significant opportunity to transform health care by integrating technology, but implementation has been long-winded for many healthcare systems.

Of the large healthcare organization within U.S. with annual information technology budgets over $100 million, 30% have deployed some level of technology as opposed to 13 percent of smaller institutions with technology deployment. This in turns develops a system of mixed technology, which includes great technological advances in one area of the region as opposed to traditional legacy systems in another. Experts believe that the long-wind of technological integration into many of the healthcare systems is a result of financial roadblocks. In fact, 46 percent of survey participants (70 participants) stated that funding is a major issue.

The leaders within the healthcare community must transform health care and improve patient safety by better leveraging information technology to improve the efficiency, accuracy, and effectiveness of our healthcare system. This embracement will in turn assist in improving the patient’s longevity, improving our globalized healthcare system, and improve the medical professional shortage worldwide.