Healthcare IT

What is HeathCare IT?

Health IT (health information technology) is the area of IT involving the design, development, creation, use and maintenance of information systems for the healthcare industry. Automated and interoperable healthcare information systems will continue to improve medical care and public health, lower costs, increase efficiency, reduce errors and improve patient satisfaction, while also optimizing reimbursement for ambulatory and inpatient healthcare providers.

Heath care IT present scenarios in India

Over the last few years, the Indian healthcare sector has been rapidly evolving. Healthcare is undergoing a distinct movement along a logical trajectory from its historical focus on acute care i.e. dealing with immediate and severe outbreaks of illness, to chronic care, continuous care for long term illness that may reduce acute cases to preventive care, i.e. care focused on early detection and treatment of illness, including immunization, ultimately leading to predictive care, i.e. not waiting for early signs of illness but predicting and thwarting it before the illness has the chance to take root. This revolution would move us away from a curative drug based healthcare towards consulting/service based healthcare with focus on lifestyle, and adapting behavior to prevent and cut out the roots of any instance of illness. This changing scenario of the healthcare industry has drastically changed the IT requirements of hospitals.

Indian hospitals fared in terms of healthcare IT adaptations as compared to other countries in Asia or rest of the world after The structure within which healthcare is carried out varies from country to country—and sometimes even within national boundaries. The most fundamental property affecting the Indian healthcare sector is the multi-faceted demographic and socio-economic profile of the country. The emergence of corporate hospitals on a larger scale is another important development. The corporate entry into healthcare is important for the professionalism of hospital management. Till recently, modern management systems had not penetrated most healthcare institutions, with some notable exceptions. Most hospitals would organise their resources and manpower within structures that had evolved rather than been designed. The processes would be structured to ensure multiple points of control rather than patient convenience. Information capture would be rudimentary and information rarely integrated beyond that required for reporting purposes, because of which any data-based quality control would not be possible. With corporate entities entering the healthcare sector, they are introducing managerial practices and tools, which they had been using for long, in the hospitals that they are promoting.

An important and positive development taking place in the Indian healthcare sector is the use of information technology for purposes such as computerization of medical records, networking of various departments in a hospital, and providing of tele-medicine services. With advent of Information Technology in Indian healthcare, disintermediation has occurred in such a way that the primary & secondary level hospitals can have a direct access to the Super Specialty Hospitals, in a collaborative way. The new organization model not only removes the intermediate layers but also provides a conducive atmosphere for primary level hospitals, to work symbiotically with the Super Specialty hospitals. This will be a win-win situation for both partners.

Market Analysis and Insights: India Healthcare IT Market

Healthcare IT market is expected to gain market growth in the forecast period of 2020 to 2027. Data Bridge Market Research analyses the market to account to a CAGR of 23.85% in the above-mentioned forecast period. The growing volume of patient data, increase in technological know-how, growing volume of patient data, and demand for quick and efficient healthcare processes and systems will help in driving the growth of the healthcare IT market. Increasing digitization in the healthcare industry and demand for value based care and mounting cost of provision of healthcare services attached with increasing number of healthcare facilities and increasing digitization in the healthcare industry will likely to accelerate the growth of the healthcare IT market in the forecast period of 2020-2027. On the other hand, highly integrated with the healthcare IT to overcome the concerns regarding big data management and its safety will further boost various opportunities that will lead to the growth of the healthcare IT market in the above mentioned forecast period. IT Infrastructural constraints in developing countries will likely to hamper the growth of the healthcare IT market in the above mentioned forecast period. The interoperability issues and security concerns is going to pose a challenge for the healthcare IT market. This healthcare IT market report provides details of new recent developments, trade regulations, import export analysis, production analysis, value chain optimization, market share, impact of domestic and localized market players, analyses opportunities in terms of emerging revenue pockets, changes in market regulations, strategic market growth analysis, market size, category market growths, application niches and dominance, product approvals, product launches, geographical expansions, technological innovations in the market. -

PwC’s Healthcare IT Survey

• The study focused on three pillars:
• Operational excellence
• Care delivery
• Customer experience

India Healthcare IT Market Scope and Market Size

Healthcare IT market is segmented on the basis of solutions and services, component type, delivery mode and end-users. The growth amongst these segments will help you analyze meager growth segments in the industries, and provide the users with valuable market overview and market insights to help them in making strategic decisions for identification of core market applications. On the basis of solutions and services, the market is segmented into solutions, HCIT outsourcing services and others. On the basis of component type, the market is segmented into software and hardware. On the basis of delivery mode, the market is segmented into on-premise and cloud-based. On the basis of end-users, the market is segmented into providers and payers.

Benefits of health information technology

While some critics say EHRs have led to clinicians spending more time entering data than conversing with patients and produced cumbersome federal regulations, there is broad consensus on the benefits of health IT. These advantages include: the ability to use data analytics and big data to effectively manage population health management programs and reduce the incidence of expensive chronic health conditions; the use of cognitive computing and analytics to perform precision medicine (PM) tailored to individual patients; the ability to share health data among academic researchers to develop new medical therapies and drugs; and the rights of patients to obtain and use their own health data and collaborate in their own care with clinicians.

15 Most Promising Healthcare IT Solution Providers

1. Avengersoft
2. Akhil Systems
3. Blooray IT Solutions
4. Caresoft Cousultancy
5. Euradite Consumer Health And Life Care
6. Forus Health
7. HealthGennie
8. MedOnGo
9. NeuroSynaptic
10. OncoStem Diagnostics
11. PharmEasy
12. S10 Technologies
13. SastaSundar
14. SigTuple
15. SoftLink International

Recent development in India on healthcare IT sector

1. Recently India has launched i-drone which deploys Unmanned Aerial vehicles (UAV) / drones to remote areas and hard to reach terrains for Covid vaccine delivery

2. The current Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission by the PM to allow greater IT-penetration of healthcare is welcome news. What makes it doubly so, is the focus on digital health such as app-based solutions. This is because leveraging digital technology towards disease management and cure is very cost-effective.

Andhra Medical College is pilot testing an artificial intelligence platform to assess various lung conditions, including Covid-19. According to the officials of AMC, Salcit Technologies has developed the patented ‘Swaasa’ AI platform, which brings in the functionality of spirometry without the constraints of time, space, specialised equipment or trained professionals.

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Scope in in health IT for 2021

1. Health systems relied on technology to swiftly move to virtual care, remote work and more coordinated communication and data management during the pandemic. Cyber security was also a new priority as ransom ware attackers hit hospitals and health systems. As a result, the CIO's expertise was in high demand in 2020, and that will likely continue in the new year. "At Providence we are seeing firsthand the expansion of the CIO role and its elevated value in the health system," said B.J. Moore, executive vice president and CIO of Renton, Wash.-based Providence. "I now report to our CEO, Rod Hochman, MD, and my role has expanded to include our real estate and operations function. This is in recognition of the future of a modern digital workforce and the evolution of our facilities in the future of modern digitally enabled care delivery." Organizations will continue accelerated digital transformation next year, and the CIO's role will evolve to look more like that of a COO's, overseeing the organization's strategy and risk management. IT teams also are evolving to include more people with clinical backgrounds, data scientists and senior security professionals.

2. A new age of cybersecurity. Hackers stepped up their efforts to attack healthcare providers in 2020 to go beyond phishing attacks and stealing information to sell on the dark web. Ransomware attacks, especially during the second half of the year, shut down IT systems and slowed operations at hospitals and healthcare facilities across the U.S. As a preemptive measure, even organizations that didn't have a security incident cut off external emails and increased screening of incoming emails in October after hackers hit six hospitals with ransomware in 24 hours. The attacks emphasized the importance of strong cybersecurity and investment in secure data storage. IT teams will need to effectively communicate good cyber hygiene to staff members to prevent attacks and troubleshoot vulnerabilities as more work goes permanently remote. In 2021, it won't be surprising to see more health systems investing in cybersecurity technology and talent as a top priority and planning for cyberattacks as a "when" and not "if" scenario.

3. Telehealth and remote care expansion. While CMS and big payers relaxed regulations on telehealth to help providers continue safely offering care during the pandemic, hospitals and health systems will continue addressing how to incorporate virtual care as part of their long-term care strategy after the public health emergency ends.

The pandemic also has accelerated advances in remote managed care both for patients with chronic conditions as well as those who have COVID-19 but don't need to be hospitalized. These developments have signaled a shift to a hybrid care model, which will replace mostly in-person visits with a combination of both telehealth and in-person visits for services ranging from follow-ups to urgent care.

4. EHRs evolving with new capabilities. As digital voice assistants like Amazon Alexa and Google Home have secured a place in consumers' living rooms, hospitals and health systems are inviting similar technologies into patient rooms. With tech developments increasingly focused on natural language processing and ambient listening capabilities, EHR vendors Epic and Cerner both inked deals to integrate Nuance's virtual assistant in their software this year, and Epic is working on its own ambient voice tech called Hey Epic! AI startup Saykara launched a new voice assistant this year that operates both ambiently and autonomously, so it can listen to and understand the context of a patient-physician conversation without being prompted by voice commands. The company counts New York City-based NewYork-Presbyterian's innovation arm as an investor, and Seattle-based Swedish Medical Group is a customer.

5. Blossoming of artificial intelligence and machine learning in healthcare. AI is not new in healthcare. Organizations have used artificial intelligence and machine learning in hospital administration and operations for years, specifically in the revenue cycle process. Before the pandemic, researchers began testing AI models to read medical images, yielding mixed results and leaving some wondering whether AI and machine learning would live up to the hype. But in the last year AI became crucial in developing predictive models for COVID-19 cases spreading across the country. Academic institutions and health systems, including New York City-based Mount Sinai; Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins; Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic; and University of California-Irvine developed predictive tools and models to track the virus and estimate the risk of COVID-19 patients developing severe symptoms. The field will continue to evolve and become more integrated with clinical care in the coming years.

Different Career Opportunities

• Help Desk Technician: takes calls from users in clinics or hospitals to help with basic PC, printer, and application functions.
• Application Analyst: implements and supports one or more specific software packages for a vendor or a clinical IT dept.
• Project Manager: provides oversight of one or more projects, assuming responsibility for on-time and on-budget completion. Juggles many competing priorities.
• Desktop Support Tech: supports users with PCs, printers, and other devices.
• Database Administrator: Develops and maintains databases for the Healthcare enterprise.

Source

• https://www.techtarget.com/
• Ajay Shankar Sharma INTERVIEW, CEO, Srishti Software Applications Pvt. Ltd./li>
• https://healthcare.siliconindia.com/
• https://www.databridgemarketresearch.com/reports/india-healthcare-it-market