Information Technology

Evolving Healthcare Technology

Changing processes

As and when technology changes and new products come into the markets, a situation is created wherein newer types of services are to be brought into picture. This change also leads to newer business models that are to be implemented by the market players.

SOA for Healthcare

Promises and pitfalls

To realise the benefits of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) adoption, including cost-efficiency, adaptability, leverage of legacy systems, and the business agility required to meet new healthcare needs, healthcare organisations must adopt a realistic strategy, establish effective SOA governance processes, perform contextual evaluations of technologies, and recognise that SOA requires a different mind-set.

Hospital of Tomorrow

Technology leads the way in Asia

Hospitals of the 21st century will have state-of-the-art communication capabilities which will not only speed us along the path to recovery, but also ensure that our personal health records will remain, as they should do.

Clinical Transformation

Future of health IT at Marshfield Clinic

With a 40+ year history of clinical computing, Marshfield Clinic is rethinking the role and function of Information Systems. New tools and approaches will reshape the way medicine is practiced setting the stage for Marshfield Clinic to be successful in the new, evolving world of healthcare in the US.

Home Telehealth

Understanding the outcomes

The use of telemedicine to embrace the home as a health venue recognises the possibility to maintain patient independence for rehabilitation and disease management.

Telehealth

Strategies for successful, cost-effective implementation

Telehealth is best used in patients with illnesses that respond to monitoring and rapid intervention. It is ideal for patients with heart failure because the weight monitoring provides information that is responsive to health interventions.

Healthcare IT in Asia

Ready for Transformation

Asia is ready for rapid technological changes happening in health care globally. More over, in country like India with such a vast population it might benefit the most.

Healthcare IT in Asia

Learning from the Global Experience

As for the developing economies in Asia, they are also working on healthcare reform and are building their infrastructure to meet the needs of the new demands in healthcare.

Healthcare IT in Asia

Start with the Basics

All areas of Healthcare IT need further development. In fact, they will be in a state of evolution for a long time.

Healthcare IT in Australia

Driven by e-Health

Evidence suggests that the use of ICT in health, i.e. e-health / telehealth / telemedicine has a potential to address critical problems in the health sector.

Healthcare IT in India

An optimistic outlook

It is reassuring to see that the central government and several state governments have accepted Telemedicine as a means to provide healthcare.We are optimistic that the present digital divide in healthcare, existing between the haves and the have nots, will gradually shrink.

Healthcare IT in UAE

An innovative transformation

Healthcare in the UAE is undergoing innovative transformation to better meet the needs of the current as well as the anticipated population growth.

Interoperability

Healthcare IT's big challenge

The inability to move clinical data from place to place—that is to say, the lack of interoperability—clearly hinders delivery of good care around the world.

Interoperability

Banking on market demand

There is still a lot of room for improvement for interoperability in healthcare. We still see issues in solutions that are not able to be integrated, which costs healthcare institutions a lot of money to fix and causes delays to the implementation of critical solutions.

IT in Healthcare

Adoption in Asia Pacific

Challenges such as rising healthcare costs, demand for better quality of healthcare, increasing labour shortage and fragmented healthcare system are making it imperative for healthcare organisation to integrate IT solutions in their administrative and clinical workflow.

A Look into the Future

The ‘Hippocratic Oath’ mentions the teaching of knowledge and leaving jobs to professionals; in the future, the professional may be a robot. Historically, technological changes have come at a manageable pace; today, the potential danger is that a lot of new technologies are emerging very quickly. We, therefore, need to look forward to what may happen in order to be better prepared for the future.

Enhancing Self-Management of Chronic Low Back Pain

Role of a patient-centred website

There exists, from the patients’ point-of-view, an information gap between general knowledge about treatment and prevention, and capacities to change behaviours. Often, delivered information does not address specific difficulties of the patients.

Benchmarking and Accrediting in Health Informatics

Driving up quality and reducing risk

Quality assurance and continuous development of health information and IT services in healthcare is a key patient safety and business issue. A part of this is the need to assure the professionalism of individual practitioners as well as the services themselves.

Patient Proxies in Decision-Making

What computers can’t capture

Healthcare policy makers face the challenging task of balancing managements’ requirements for quantified information with the often unmeasurable realities of clinical decisionmaking. Decision-making and healthcare policies need to be responsive to biomedical, personal, cultural, as well as economic needs.

Understanding SOA

Caring about IT architecture

Increasingly, healthcare organisations are looking towards healthcare IT to help drive efficiencies and improve care quality. However, they need to sort out the common misconceptions regarding SOA before adopting it in their organisations.

Telehealth in Asia

Healthcare for the communities

The Internet and next generation communication technologies are revolutionising the delivery of care and are increasingly utilised to deliver better and more comprehensive care to communities that need it most. Telecare or the delivery of care virtually supported by Internet and communication tools is breaking new ground.

Leveraging Authentic Health Information

Key to patient empowerment

Advancements in medical knowledge have led to increased complexity of care delivered by multiple teams often across organisations. As the population ages, delivering such care will become increasingly difficult. Real-time digital medicine, enabling patients to view their own medical records, which contain high quality information, and enable them to make choices about the care they receive affords the opportunity to empower patients and clinicians.

Patient Records Online

Shared access for quality care

Online Personal Health Records signal a paradigm shift in the management of a patient data. By allowing easy access to patient information, online health records can enhance patient care and create a healthy doctor-patient relationship.

Patient Health Records Online

The patients are much more engaged and satisfied when they feel that they have a kind of open relationship with their healthcare providers, hospitals or clinics; that there is free flow information and nothing is being with held.

Patient Health Records Online

Greater transparency and sharing of information can also improve communication, trust and shared-decision making between patients and doctors.

Patient Health Records Online

It’s better if the patient is informed about health, so he can manage his life and affairs in a better fashion.

Challenges in Managing Chronic Diseases

EMRs enable better care

The majority of healthcare expenditure worldwide is spent towards treating chronic diseases like diabetes. Electronic Medical Records could prove effective in the management of chronic diseases, facilitating the delivery of quality healthcare to the patients.

Semantic Web and Translational Medicine

Creating the next generation healthcare enterprise

Translational Medicine, which aims to improve communication between the basic and clinical sciences, coupled with informatics and semantic technologies will help in creating the next generation healthcare enterprise.

Telemedicine and Remote Monitoring

Improving COPD patient care

The medical world is in urgent need of providing new ways of dealing with the challenges of the profession. IT and sharing of competences among the staff must be part of the solution.

Insights into Healthcare IT

Transforminghealthcare in Asia

Healthcare delivery can be improved by focussing on clinical leadership and governance, e-health, EHR, EMR, EPR, PHR, IT strategy and innovation.

Patient Health Records Online

Online Health Information

Accuracy, quality and privacy

Several e-Health initiatives are underway to empower the patient with the right information. The Internet, with its vast amounts of information, is a key player in turning the patient into an ‘informed patient’.

Digital Ward

Hospital of the future

Imagine a future where hospital wards have no paper case notes or files. Information on a Patient’s medical condition is automatically captured via intelligent context-aware devices and sent directly to the central computer systems.

Healthcare IT

Innovations for better care

Innovations will move to areas of consumer empowerment by providing greater access to services and information including personal health applications populated with data.

Medical Banking

A new stakeholder

As the management of healthcare data progressively moves to an electronic platform, banks are realising that their technical systems, privacy and security frameworks, identity management engines and marketing channels can be leveraged to fast forward e-Health.

Commoditising Healthcare IT

The next wave

With the costs of healthcare rapidly increasing, the monolithic model of HIT is no longer sustainable. HIT commodity capability that provides a new level of convenience and serviceability to the healthcare environment while being cost-effective.

Applying Path Innovation

Seeking revolutionary HIT

Healthcare requires a revolution in the way we deliver care by utilising IT in new and innovative ways. Path innovation allows experts to work together in the development of workflows that best leverage HIT.

Broadband Medical Network in Asia Pacific

The Asia-Pacific Advanced Network (APAN) can transmit high-quality moving images over broadband Internet lines. This network system is being extended to the entire Asia-Pacific region to promote the exchange of medical knowledge and standardisation.

EMR in a Large Healthcare Organisation

Development and implementation

The YUHS planned a new EMR system that integrated pre-existing systems within the new system. The philosophical objective was to achieve first class medical services with safety, reliability and convenience through IT.

RFID in Healthcare

Enabling patient safety

With the size and costs of RFID tags decreasing, their incorporation in surgical sponges, endoscopic capsules and endotracheal tubes is creating potential benefits in patient safety and diagnostics.

RFID in Healthcare

RFID is helping hundreds of healthcare facilities across UK, US and Germany to improve overall safety and operational efficiency because it operates without line-of-sight while providing read / write capabilities for dynamic item tracking.

Connected Healthcare

What next?

Healthcare in the 21st century will require a much higher degree of connectedness and mobility of information, knowledge, processes, devices and people.

eHealth and Healthcare Practice

The use of e-health can positively impact doctor-patient relationship promoting the mutual participation model of medicine, which implies that, e-health can promote a shared responsibility in decision making and problem solving.

Intelligent Health Networking

Changing our way of healthcare

The fundamental reason for the healthcare IT gap, and the lack of impact of ICT in healthcare relative to other industries, is that we are attempting to use an ICT framework that is mismatched to the new models of care.

Cardiovascular Medicine

Integrating IT for better care

New interventions are urgently needed to update cardiovascular practice to the level of fast pace in the other areas. The rapid and efficient cardiovascular services provided by these new paradigms will improve standard of care and cut cost by eliminating communication gaps, treatment errors and redundant diagnostic testing.

Healthcare IT in India

This changing scenario of the healthcare industry has drastically changed the IT requirements of hospitals. There are clear challenges within the current healthcare ecosystem that must be overcome before the healthcare revolution is realised.

Information Technology in Healthcare

Creating a stronger healthcare system

While improving computer systems would not eliminate all medical errors, researchers believe it will reduce the errors dramatically. Now is the time to share progress, challenges and best practices to enable interoperability and link the ecosystem in the delivery of better quality care.

Building a e-Hospital

Lessons from Taiwan

The application of information technology has improved the quality and lowered the cost of medical services in Taiwan.

Telesurgery in Asia

Are we there yet?

Telemedicine has traditionally been more popular with countries of huge geographical distances where access to medical care for patients leaving in remote areasd is scarce. However, telemedicine has proven itself to be viable in a land-scarce place such as Singapore.

Medical Errors

RFID to the rescue

RFID can provide an important contribution to improving the quality of treatment and increasing the safety of hospital routine.

Asia's Challenge to the Medical Manufacturers

The era of passive sales to local distributors is rapidly drawing to a close.

Medical Care

Wireless sensor networks

New opportunities now exist where medical systems can be developed which offer preventative care and focus on delivering this directly to the person at home.