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The Silver Lining in Preventive Care is up in the Cloud
The Silver Lining in Preventive Care is up in the Cloud

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The famous quote attributed to Dutch philosopher Desiderius Erasmus – ‘Prevention is Better than Cure’, holds immense importance in the modern healthcare ecosystem. 

Why?

The modern and fast way of living is extensively causing chronic lifestyle diseases. Additionally, the COVID-19 pandemic has prompted people to improve their health to become immune to common diseases and increase their lifespan for a healthy and happy life. In the past, people took medicines only when they were sick or injured. Today, people are taking preventive care to avoid getting sick. Preventive care brings with it some amazing benefits, such as:

  1. Increase lifespan with proactive tests and screenings
  2. It will save you money in the long run on treatment bills
  3. It helps in living an active and happy life
  4. Limits the spread of disease to the extremities
  5. It gives the power to choose a good doctor in case of any ailments

The adoption of digital practices is a necessity for enabling preventive healthcare systems. And Cloud is the trump card in this digital game.

Cloud Computing: A trump card for healthcare

According to the BCC Research report, the global market for cloud technologies in healthcare was $16.1 billion in 2016. The market reached $20.2 billion in 2017 and should be at $35.0 billion by 2022, growing at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 11.6% from 2017 to 2022. This report clearly signals that healthcare companies are investing largely in developing new digital technologies to accelerate innovation. 

The COVID-19 pandemic catalyzes another reason for accelerated healthcare industry digitalization. It has made people prioritize their health and, as a result, given a boost to preventive healthcare practices. Cloud computing for healthcare is not new, but this growing popularity of digitally enabled healthcare has accelerated cloud adoption. This recent transformation gave birth to telehealth, which became more popular during the pandemic since the medical staff was able to work remotely.

Cloud enables improved IT infrastructure, accelerated innovation, and cost-effectiveness, and it also helps extract data-driven insights for better decision-making and predictive analytics. The flexibility of the pay-as-you-go model also helps with cost reduction, scalability, and better resource utilization. However, the grass is not all green. Cloud transformation in healthcare can be overwhelming. It comes with its own set of challenges. It all starts with where to start and what to consider before making a move. Choosing the right cloud strategy is just the first step; however, one cannot ignore the tedious process of cloud migration, which often becomes the elephant in the room. Wait! Actually, the sprawl of unstructured data that is migrated to the Cloud is the real elephant. The hybrid cloud environment can make it more difficult to manage data in a heterogeneous environment. Let’s address this challenge and look at ways that can help.

Unstructured Data: The Elephant in the Room

Digital transformation has recently driven healthcare organizations to focus more on end-to-end patient journeys to improve customer experiences. Preventive healthcare and the patient’s journey are like two sides of the same coin because without understanding the patient’s journey, it is impossible to implement preventive healthcare. 

A mere realization of mapping a patient’s journey is not enough, but addressing the sprawl of unstructured, heterogeneous, and complex data generated from clinical notes, medical records, reports, bills, and personal information is the need of the hour. It is estimated that 80% of the healthcare data is unstructured, and it holds great potential for transforming the industry. 

According to Walters Kluwer’s analysis, unstructured health data can help researchers build health equity. That means it will bring democratization to the healthcare industry by providing everyone with equal and fair healthcare services. During the COVID-19 pandemic, it came to light that many regions in the US face health disparities. This knowledge, the federal reporting mandates, and the Affordable Care Act (ACA) policies will help capture data more effectively and leverage it for preventive and diagnostic care. 

Understanding datasets, analyzing it, and then leveraging it for obtaining data-driven insights can truly empower transformation in the healthcare industry. Before moving to the Cloud, addressing the complex healthcare data ecosystem will help in the long run.

To sum it up, healthcare companies can benefit from making smart decisions when transforming their operations using the Cloud. Selection of the right data tools is crucial when doing this. Many point solutions are available in the market that helps with data analytics, data management, data security, and more. But an intelligent and comprehensive solution that can help with end-to-end data management will make the process seamless. 

 

 

 


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