Healthcare in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is home to about 600 million people is going through unprecedented change because of the diverse nature of its health systems which are at different stages of evolution. Southeast Asia is one of the world most disaster- prone regions of the word, has 9% of the world’s population residing and is…
Interoperability is the ability of systems to exchange information and use the exchanged information effectively. It can also be defined as an extent to which systems and devices can exchange and interpret data. In other words, for two systems to be interoperable, they must be able to exchange data and present data which can be easily interpreted by the user. Interoperability…
Artificial Intelligence is turning out to be the driving force to change the way we do everything, it is now leading large movement towards Virtual Nursing. With a nationwide shortage of nursing staff and a growing need for instant gratification, people prefer to get immediate medical advice and assistance even from far away places through phone, email, chat, or video…
The internet of things (IOT) is creating a network among various physical devices embedded using software or sensors. The main purpose of IOT is connecting many devices under one secure setup, those networked devices are identified uniquely using computing system so that it can transmit data within an internet infrastructure. Designing a dedicated structure for connected devices under an internet…
Clinical decision support (CDS) system is an application which analyzes patient data with available health information and helps providers make right clinical decisions through out the clinical work flow CDS helps health care professionals make decisions in various stages such as preventive care, diagnosis, treatment etc. by provided relevant clinical information, alerts or drug formulary guidelines. In this article, we…
Technology Innovation in focus: Aging in Place Technology: Remote Patient Monitoring and Geriatric Smart Homes. One of the biggest mega trends impacting the world today is population aging, and by 2030 the average life expectancy is expected to rise to 110. As the number of senior people rises in many economies of the world, the need for long-term care and…
In the modern era big data analytics has becomes one of the most popular and demanding technologies for healthcare as it has become imperative to obtain useful insights from available data-sets. In this article, we are going to talk about healthcare data analysis to identify disease patterns using big data techniques such as ‘Hadoop Map reduce’ followed by ‘K-means clustering’…
Telemedicine is about using tele-communication and electronic tools to provide healthcare virtually, at a distance. The notion of telemedicine has been around for a long time now, but it is in the recent years that it has evolved to a variety of different forms and today is an answer to solving a lot of healthcare’s problems. Hospital IT and telemedicine…
In an age where consumers have access and control over all types of data, it is indispensable for patients to own their health data. Today, providers are the primary stewards of EMRs and not the patients. Patients should be able to have complete control over sharing of personal health data and there must not be a provision to add/ modify…
As per a survey clinicians spend almost 50% of their workday in using EMR and stretch up to 12% more than their normal working hours. Clinicians spend almost half their professional time typing, clicking, and checking boxes on electronic records while managing clerical and administrative tasks including documentation, order entry, billing and coding, and system security. To obtain an accurate outlook of…