TRENDS OF DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION IN THE HEALTH SECTOR

Healthcare organisations often need to make decisions about which digital technologies to invest in to help their team embrace digital change. This is because change demands flexible adaptation to the changing times, which means saying goodbye to old business processes and finding new ways to do things, because digital transformation has a positive impact on the healthcare system.

It is about streamlining the work of doctors and optimising systems to avoid human error and reduce costs.

5 trends for digital transformation in healthcare

1. on demand health care
   Consumers want things in their own time and wherever they are, in other words “on demand”. Mobile plays a major role in the marketing of content, as it accounts for more than 50% of all web browsing.
2. big data in healthcare
   Big Data is a collection of a large amount of data that can be processed. Characteristics of this are the three V’s: Velocity, Volume and Variety. The aim is to find patterns and dependencies.
   
   The advantages for the health care system are as follows:
   - Fewer medication errors
   The software can analyse discrepancies between the patient’s condition and the drugs and alert doctors when there is a risk.
   - Facilitate care
   Plans can be drawn up to avoid recurrent patients by identifying them early and preventing them from having to come to the emergency room as preventive care cases.
   - Control of staffing levels
   The analysis can help hospitals and clinics to assess which staff needs to be assigned to which patients. This can save money and reduce waiting times
3. virtual reality
   The use of virtual reality has developed in recent years, so that it has become an important part of the health care system.
   Virtual Reality can make a great contribution to the treatment of patients or the training of professionals.
   Both large pharmaceutical companies and start-ups rely on VR. This is because VR is a powerful communication channel that can virtually introduce customers to products or services.
4. medical devices
   Through medical devices, companies can record health data and thus obtain information about the health of patients at any time. In this way, patients can not only come to the doctor when they have complaints, but can also be monitored over a longer period of time, which enables preventive action to be taken. Common trackers are, for example, heart rate sensors, heart rate monitors (for diabetics) or oximeters (monitoring the transported oxygen in the blood).
5. predictive health
   Predicting which diseases could become a problem in the future can help healthcare companies to develop recommendations for healthy lifestyles. For example, analysts can use various channels to find out which are the most common queries and make a prediction of what the next health problems might be.

Final thoughts
The digital transformation has a major impact on the healthcare system and the way information is obtained.

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