Due to the increasingly data-driven healthcare environments and the non-stable efficiencies of the medical care processes, smart hospitals have been proposed as an alternative for healthcare. The challenge of empowering healthcare organizations relies on the adoption of digitized solutions to unlock the power of the data and remove information hurdles between systems, processes and employees.
The application of emerging efficient solutions is indispensable to revitalize hospitals and tackle information-associated problems. Understanding the interplay of critical facets affecting healthcare may provide greater value in the medical environment.
The operation of robotic systems has procreated significant interest in supporting minimally invasive procedures. They can tolerate staffing shortages and challenges quickly, allowing workers to focus on patient-centric, value-driven work.
EHR system creates virtual world using health-relevant information from different electronic databases. This electronic world contains real-world information including events and activities related to the patient health.
Each care facility has to track innovative solutions, focusing on a select tranche of journals and magazines. The implementation of smart hospital is challenging and needs deep understanding of systems and processes. This caveat aside, the innovations represent the reality for many health system engineers of facilitating non-commercial alternatives resulting in lower performance.
This account chimes with the thinking behind the application of digitized tools which enable hospitals to minimize the offline data gap that reduces care efficiency and quality review.
Smart hospitals require the installation of and development of processes with less risk and faster timelines. This approach in healthcare aims to elevate patients’ safety, improve medical quality and meet international standards.
A plea for a digitized culture
Nowadays, the volatility of healthcare facilities renders the necessity for changes and to embrace technological advances to help improve patient care.
Hospitals are struggling with the integration of precision and efficiency to clinical processes. The clustering of digitized methodologies is the sine qua non for enhancing the patient centricity, thus, elevating the value of medical care.
Advancing digitization in hospitals is important to improve processes and mitigate common errors of manual, paper-based production records that lead to auditors’ observations. Healthcare facilities may determine how digitalization fits into their business models and the right ways to leverage its possibilities. Data integrity is critical for healthcare facilities to avoid the ripple effect of data by reducing hospitals problems and improving medical care.
Paper-based procedures result in human errors and poor data integrity that lowers the performance and effectiveness of operations. A non-standard paper-based documentation and control procedures in hospital may waste time and money afterwards in correcting paper records, retrieving information and reviewing records.
Looking to a later levy, leveraging infrastructure modernization renders a sparking change to a healthcare scheme by integrating digital and physical assets in a unified framework.
Conclusion
‘Smart’ hospitals appear more important than ever in medical care and medical management may implement a cascade strategy towards this approach to adopt and deploy new lifesaving processes in healthcare value chain.
Authors
Spyros holds B.S/M.S in Chemical Engineering and M.S in Automation Systems from the National Technical University of Athens.
Dr. Charalampogiannis holds a PhD from the Faculty of Medicine at University of Heidelberg in Germany. From January 2016 until September 2019, he worked as Specialist at the Urologic Department in SLK-Kliniken am Gesundbrunnen, in Heilbronn, Germany. He’s been in private practice in Öhringen, Germany since 2019.
