10 Tech Trends in Healthcare

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SmartPHONES

The iPhone has been a catalyst and the lead smartphone

adopted in healthcare.

Wi-Fi

It was a wakeup call that small form factor devices

could become so widely adopted in clinical care.

Wi-Fi

Application development leverages smartphone hardware – cameras,

accelerometers, and Bluetooth.Wi-Fi

There are high expectations for the enterprise environment to be available on a mobile platform.

Wi-Fi

Wi-FiADOPTION

For many hospitals the WLAN now has more connected devices than the wired LAN.

It started with workstations on wheels – but now encompasses guest Internet access, medical

devices, phones, video units, RTLS, and on and on.

Since Wi-Fi availability is expected, medical devices are

getting smarter where Wi-Fi connectivity is a requirement.

Bring Your OwnDEVICE

Smartphones + Hospital Wi-Fi = need for a BYOD policy and mobile device management solution.

+ =

BYOD has been the disrupter to how technology solutions are evaluated and roll out by hospital IT.

A revolution took place and it is forcing IT to

focus more on customer service delivery rather

than technology control.

We are moving towards a cloud infrastructure

supporting a range of devices dictated by the consumer.

GovernmentMandates

HITECH, HIPAA, Meaningful Use, and ICD 10 have forced healthcare institutions to invest heavily in IT infrastructure, talent, and application systems.

These mandates have the potential

for being the catalyst to big data analysis.

Voice overIp

The emergence of VoIP has allowed healthcare institutions to leverage the same IT infrastructure backbone to support data,and voice traffic.

More importantly it has created communication flexibility that started with mobility and is now

evolving into applications.

Social MediaPlatforms

Emergence of social media is allowing hospitals to reach out to staff, patients, and the general public

in new ways, and to reach younger audiences.

Next we will see social evolve into flexible communications options for hospitals and care teams.

Virtualization

Virtualization is increasing the consolidation of services

onto dedicated server farms and a high level of

availability, and redundancy.

IAAS and PAAS are emerging and soon we may even see virtual cloud and virtual storage on the rise.

IP–Based MedicalDevices

Medical devices are evolving at an unprecedented rate, so much so that the 510K process is in dire need of an update in order to ensure that medical devices can use the latest in technological advancements.

As these devices become more integrated into the network, human error is

becoming increasingly contained which ultimately

decreases re-admission rates.

The network infrastructure and backbone must be agile enough to accommodate the explosive growth of connected devices and network traffic as we move towards an era where every device is communicating on the network.

mHealth

mHealth facilitates a spectrum of ways to leverage mobility, and mobile devices to improve clinical

work flows and outcomes.

These range from video remote interpretation, to telemedicine and remote care use cases.

The next step will be adoption of wearable technologies.

BigData

The infrastructure and applications everyone investing in holds the promise of being leveraged

for big data analysis, trending, more insight for improved clinical results.

Our challenge is how to share the information while protecting patient privacy.

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Special Thanks To: @bobzemke and @carey_mercier