Going by recent reports, it would be fair to assume that the Indian healthcare segment is looking at information technology (IT) for a healing touch of sorts.
Reports suggest that hospitals are going to up their IT usage to 3-7 per cent in the next four or five years from the current 0.5-1 per cent of the overall hospital budget. State governments are also realising the potential of ‘health information technology’ and investing locally.
IT adoption in the healthcare segment till now has been slow and fragmented for various reasons. Key among them are low allocation for IT and multifarious health delivery. Medical equipment and operational expenses often take precedence over IT investments. Also, the industry is vast, with multiple delivery mechanisms, leaving in its trail thousands of medical records on paper — hand-written notes, scans and radiology images — creating silos of information.
With medical costs on the rise and a growing middle-class seeking better services, hospitals are looking to IT to help them achieve success.
Cloud can offer great efficiencies with its pay-per-use model, helping reduce ‘total cost of ownership’ by 10-30 per cent. For large hospitals seeking legacy migrations, cloud can be an effective solution, even if it entails capital expenditure itself. Electronic Health Records (EHRs) and ancillary software are adding millions of data points and cloud can help store and manage healthcare data and applications, securely and effectively.
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