Technology and advancements in the medical industry are moving at a rapid pace. These advancements are helping doctors, medical professionals and patients to keep a track of their medical records and history. Though the section of
Electronic Medical Records (EMR) and
Electronic Health Records (EHR) are advancing in a huge speed, still, it is one of the least discussed. It is one such area of healthcare which is about to bring some of the greatest improvements in the medical industry with major benefits to both providers and patients.
The major upcoming goals of EMR-EHR are improvement of the quality, efficiency and safety of healthcare systems, improvement of overall public health, improved collaboration among doctors for treating the same patient, inclusion and engagement of patients in their own care and assurance of privacy and confidentiality of patients. While keeping these goals in mind, the trends which are to be observed in the near future are as follows:
Increase in the access point for patients.
In US, the initiatives which were maximally observed is the catalyst of IT trends in Health Care in the patient area access are the change in the regulation of US HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996) and the financial initiatives to adopt EHR systems.
Direct cloud access
Like any other modern industry, the entire healthcare industry is moving into cloud to make the work, computing and storage to help manage its data. The HIMSS Analytics 2016 Cloud Surveyed the IT Leaders at 105 Healthcare provider organizations and reported that these companies are planning to move to the cloud for analyzing big data and PACS (Picture Archiving and Communication System) storage. Many are already using cloud technology for patient engagement tools.
Wearables to Monitor Health
Technology is evolving and so is the healthcare industry. Minds of people are changing too. People are losing the tendency to wait now and everybody is demanding things to be faster. Patients and consumers of the healthcare industry are demanding to access their test results in the fastest way possible. They now want to use their mobile phones or other portable computing devices to book appointments for them. They are pushing their health data through wearable devices which offers Bluetooth enabled blood-pressure monitors and remote patient monitoring platforms which can send their information to their healthcare specialist teams. With the increase in the use of these technologies, the amount of data is also increasing every day.
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