The Winning Twain – Customizing healthcare IT and Care

Is your practice on the right trend ?

Most physicians are not keeping themselves abreast with the latest trends in healthcare system apart from their clinical knowledge. This article is packed with the recent trends that aid you improve your patient care.

Experts say that big data and analytics are going to turbo-charge the future healthcare system in the U.S. In a survey conducted by Frost & Sullivan, it is reported that 50 percent of the U.S. hospitals will espouse the data analytics by 2016 as compared with 10 percent of U.S. hospitals in 2011. Here goes the article based on the Intel Healthcare Innovations Summit 2013.

Big data and bigger value

Carew stated that Carolinas HealthCare System is applying the big data to put up a full-scale view of its patients and analytics to proffer customized medicine to the patients. Furthermore, Carew’s group has fabricated advanced tools that transmit instantaneous patient data to care managers. This would buttress the healthcare research and enhance the understanding on potential of the programs to deliver improved patient care.

Access to external data

For the healthcare researchers, gaining ingress into the patient data is the taxing task. Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI) of the University of North Carolina is operating ample projects including the translation of fundamental research into advanced through genomic, clinical and EHR (electronic health record) data to envisage the disease/ treatment outcomes and to prop up clinical decisions.

Filling the lacuna

RENCI group identified a gap between the clinical and computing researchers where the clinical research are ignoring the IT and computing researchers are not using the clinical technologies. But, data sharing is more than a technical issue and privacy-cum-security twain is a major setback.

Formulating better HIT matrix

To abridge the space between IT and health researchers, the current healthcare system calls for a clean overhaul of the HIT systems so as to utilize the big data for better patient care. At the outset, there must be a determination in the health system that the computing team must persistently help the healthcare providers to improve their care delivery.

In the last year, Global professional services company, Towers Watson reported that 67 percent of the more than 100 care providers and hospitals revealed intricacies in employing experienced and proficient IT workers. Thus, enhanced understanding of the HIT systems poses glitches on the other end. To rule out such issues, ‘cloud as a service’ technology can be implemented which mitigates the resource scarcity, escalates big data utilization, provides better analytics and accelerates ideal care delivery.