The increasing amount of diagnostic data from various sources, such as imaging, digital pathology, and genomics, is critical for doctors to provide accurate diagnoses and treatment plans.
Fremont, California: Healthcare workforce shortages have reached crisis levels and are expected to persist through 2024, pressuring organizations to balance financial constraints, addressing health disparities and addressing environmental challenges for sustainable health systems. Healthcare technology trends reveal how AI and virtual care innovations can significantly benefit healthcare professionals, patients, and society.
Automate and optimize AI-powered workflows
Healthcare organizations are enhancing workforce strategies to attract and retain talent, providing flexibility and work-life balance. They use automation and artificial intelligence to speed up routine tasks and reduce professional burdens. The integration of AI into CT systems automates radiographers' tasks, while AI-based reconstruction provides high image quality. Generative AI is expected to further enhance automation, reduce administrative burden and enhance operational efficiency, including automated documentation and summarization of patient visits.
Virtual collaboration addresses the lack of staff and expertise
Virtual collaboration in healthcare is a growing trend to address staffing and expertise shortages, especially in remote and rural areas. It includes wireless operations command centers and real-time virtual collaboration in ultrasound, allowing doctors to communicate remotely with their teams and patients. Teleintensive programs that integrate virtual care to enhance bedside care are also expected to gain traction. AI-powered monitoring technology can reduce the burden on on-site employees. As the healthcare workforce ages, virtual collaboration models create new career paths for older professionals, while maintaining valuable knowledge and experience.
Integrated diagnosis that supports multidisciplinary collaboration
The increasing amount of diagnostic data from various sources, such as imaging, digital pathology, and genomics, is critical for doctors to provide accurate diagnoses and treatment plans. However, this data is often scattered across different systems. Integrated diagnostic advances will help healthcare professionals share patient data more efficiently, creating a common “cockpit” that brings together relevant data in a vendor-agnostic digital environment. This could benefit cancer patients, allowing earlier diagnosis and treatment and improving treatment outcomes.
Improve interoperability to improve monitoring and care coordination
Interoperability in healthcare is a major challenge due to the fragmentation of IT and data infrastructure. One report highlights interoperability as one of the four most important success factors for integrating in-person and virtual care. To improve care coordination, healthcare technology providers must adopt an open ecosystem approach that frees data from silos, enabling clinicians to deliver timely diagnosis and treatment. New interoperability capabilities can bring together medical devices and systems into a single interface, providing a comprehensive overview of a patient's condition.
