Healthcare is a vital industry focused on promoting, maintaining, and restoring health. It encompasses a wide range of services including medical diagnosis, treatment, prevention, and management of illnesses and injuries. Healthcare professionals such as doctors, nurses, and specialists work together to provide quality care to patients. With advancements in technology, healthcare has evolved to include telemedicine, electronic health records, and digital health solutions, enabling improved access and convenience for patients. The goal of healthcare is to improve overall well-being, enhance patient outcomes, and ensure the best possible quality of life for individuals.
Technological innovations today are the driving force behind assisting the medical community to deliver quality care more effectively, along with improved security, privacy, and regulatory compliance. As healthcare organizations continue to face challenges in terms of providing round-the-clock services online, added complications such as meeting security and compliance standards set by – HIPAA’s equivalent in … Read more
Patient Portal is connected to the Electronic Health Record (EHR), which gives patients a look into data related to their health. These include lab results, physician notes, their health histories, discharge summaries and immunizations. Some patient portals go beyond to a stage where patients can only view their data. These portals include features such as … Read more
An article published by Forbes last year said that across the US, there will be an increase in the number of patients, whereas the number of doctors will remain same. The static supply of healthcare professionals is a significant cause of concern. Nowadays, the amount of time and number of interactions between a patient and … Read more
Thriving on technology, the healthcare sector has revolutionized the manner in which it functions today. Rendering critical services, it was imperative that healthcare majors upped the ante and delivered on the primary goal of saving lives, and further, even improving the quality of human life via technological innovations. Patients needing specialist emergency services or consultations … Read more
In the realm of sci-fi brilliance, Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey takes the cake. It introduces us to HAL, the “talking” computer with a sinister streak—it eerily murders most of the human crew under its care. Even today, fans of this 1968 gem still shiver when our astronaut hero, Dave Bowman, desperately pleads with … Read more
Facebook has reigned supreme all over our newsfeed over the past few weeks. As details regarding its business model (assimilating user data and selling it to interested buyers) trickle out and its brazen mishandling of user information has resulted in global outrage. Considerable harm has been caused to affect privacy norms, government elections, and even … Read more
In digital healthcare, where precision is paramount and margins for error are razor-thin, one might not immediately equate ‘design’ with ‘life or death.’ Yet, here we are. Digital healthcare is intricate. It’s often driven by the minds at the top, those farthest from the daily struggles of healthcare professionals on the ground. And a critical … Read more