Transforming Healthcare Delivery with Data Management
In the last several years, countless billions of dollars have been invested in cloud technology, networking infrastructure, computing hardware, and software platforms to revolutionize healthcare operations.
However, the tools we are working with today to make healthcare “smart” were not designed to handle the diversity of devices, the scope of interactions and the massive volume of data-points generated from medical devices, machines and systems. Each new device requires too much customization and maintenance just to perform the same basic tasks. Data and information largely still resides in functional or vendor-specific silos dispersed across hospital assets, facilities and functions.
Today, hospital equipment and asset systems are still a kludgey collection of yesterday’s technology and architectures that do not address the most basic data integration, management and collaboration challenges. These challenges are diluting the ability of healthcare organizations to efficiently and effectively manage costs and deliver a seamless patient experience.
Without advanced data management tools, users, equipment manufacturers and third party services providers will not realize the true value of their machine and operational data. This report explores how new machine data management, analytics and orchestration solutions are the core enabling technology required to realize the Smart Hospital of the future.
