There has been an explosion of digital technologies and patient management solutions in the past decade. Healthcare leaders across the globe are quick to adopt digital innovations including care coordination solutions, patient engagement solutions, Remote Patient Monitoring Platforms (RPM), Telemedicine solutions, IoT-enabled devices, wearables, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), Deep Learning (DL) to empower the healthcare ecosystem, drive patient experiences and deliver superior patient outcomes.

Moving forward, healthcare systems are broadening their horizons and unlocking new potential to leverage on these technologies, while innovating new solutions to address the growing challenges, changing consumer expectations and the evolving healthcare landscape.

This blog outlines some of the key strategies, industry best practices, proven digital healthcare models adopted by healthcare leaders around the world to give a leadership POV on the latest digital healthcare trends—that foster the healthcare digital transformation journey.

What are the challenges in new technology adoption?

There are always challenges associated with adopting new technologies. To mitigate the impact, healthcare systems need to evaluate and predict the possible risks involved in implementing the digitized solution. It’s also critical that healthcare leaders of an organization understand that withholding from implementing new solutions would be a greater risk that causes growth stagnancy than the risk of initiating new digital initiatives.

Bridging the Digital Gaps

One of the major concerns of Lifesciences companies is the broad set of patients who enroll for clinical trials. The populations that enroll for clinical trials need to have a resemblance to the defined set of patient criteria.

Integrating intuitive digital technologies can go a long way in bridging these gaps—helping improve clinical trial process efficiencies at great scale. Healthcare systems can consider focusing on implementing next-gen digital technologies like Artificial Intelligence, especially ML and DL, advanced analytics that drive actionable health insights, digital patient management solutions, IoT-powered devices, among the others. However, it is the strategy, not technology that drives digital transformation. Technologies act as catalysts that need to be seamlessly intertwined into the strategic BIG IDEA of the organizational goals.

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How to address the non-tech-savvy communities?

Patient populations that enroll for clinical trials comprise a wide range of healthcare communities. This includes the older population like the Gen X and the baby boomers who may not necessarily be tech-savvy. Simplified patient access to advanced technology is also a critical digital care gap that needs to be addressed—for frictionless processes among the clinical communities. Essential patient data derived from Patient Generated Health Data (PGHD), Patient Reported Outcomes (PRO), Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) and other direct sources are reported to be more accurate than surveys and findings.

To accelerate the value of these data, healthcare systems need to facilitate digital solutions for better patient access and higher data accuracies. For instance, participants need prompt distribution of smartphones if already unavailable with them and required for the study. This is applicable for smartphones or any other devices that will be required to support the clinical study.

Final Words

The COVID-19 global pandemic has brought major transformations to the life sciences industry, where huge innovations were made in a swift manner. Global life sciences organizations integrated breakthrough technologies and strategies to bring massive change to the worldwide healthcare communities. It is essential that the healthcare leaders continue to take these lessons to further accelerate new innovations and keep the continuum of change going.

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