{"id":1768,"date":"2019-08-22T09:08:08","date_gmt":"2019-08-22T16:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ascentblog.org\/?p=1768"},"modified":"2019-08-19T09:21:30","modified_gmt":"2019-08-19T16:21:30","slug":"health-care-practices-must-be-digitally-ready-for-the-21st-century-patient","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ascentblog.org\/health-care-practices-must-be-digitally-ready-for-the-21st-century-patient\/","title":{"rendered":"Health Care Practices Must Be Digitally Ready for the 21st-Century Patient"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Our society is becoming increasingly tech-driven,\nwith more Americans than ever relying on mobile phones for information. Yet\nmany health care providers aren\u2019t yet prepared to offer secure digital and\nmobile information to their patients. A failure to invest in this technology\nmight cause consumers to go somewhere else for health care. Your practice is at\nrisk of losing more than just patients; physicians and other staff might be\ntempted to move on to more competitive health systems, as well. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Consequences of Being Slow to Adopt New Technology
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Health care organizations that are not investing in\nIT modernization could end up going out of business. This is already happening\nin some instances, illustrating the importance of making digital- and\nmobile-health readiness a key priority. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yet, many smaller practices are reluctant to turn to\nmobile, cloud computing and data analytics solutions that are receiving\nwidespread use by larger health organizations. A study of 220 key IT\ndecision-makers within health care practices focused on learning more about\nthese trends. 11 percent of those polled were labeled early adopters and 25\npercent made some progress in their digital health plans, but the remainder\nlagged behind their peers\u2014some of them quite far behind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Data shows those organizations waiting to implement\nnew technology are losing out. The early adopters\u2014those who devoted resources\ntoward building cloud-based architecture, turning to distributed ledger\ntechnology such as blockchain, using artificial intelligence and machine\nlearning for clinical diagnosis and treatment support and adopting an\nintegrated platform as a service (IPaaS) solution experienced the following\nbenefits: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

  • 87 percent had reduced care costs <\/li>
  • 83 percent noted Improved workflow efficiencies\n <\/li>
  • 82 percent realized improved patient\n satisfaction <\/li>
  • 78 percent reported Improved patient outcomes <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n

    Those taking a wait-and-see approach cited a number\nof barriers to improving their digital health readiness. The biggest ones\nincluded: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    • Integrating legacy systems with new digital and\n mobile technologies<\/li>
    • Resistance by physician and clinical staff toward\n integrating new solutions into workflows<\/li>
    • An inability to find skilled IT staff to deploy\n and maintain new technologies<\/li>
    • Privacy and security concerns<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n

      Those may be valid concerns, but to be successful,\nworkarounds are going to have to be found. Otherwise, technology and consumer\nexpectations might pass you by, leading your practice down a road from which it\nwill be very difficult to turn around and catch up to the competition. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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