Today, the healthcare industry is confronting many complex and daunting challenges that include demands to:
- Increase patient engagement.
- Take advantage of big data, analytics, artificial Intelligence (AI), and machine learning (ML).
- Integrate consumer health apps, wearables, and the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT).
- Combat cybersecurity threats, breaches, and ransomware.
In the midst of this, however, healthcare organizations must continue to:
- Deliver the best patient care.
- Improve patient outcomes.
- Reduce healthcare costs (now 7 percent of GDP in the UK and almost 18 percent of GDP in the United States).
- Enhance patient and clinician experiences.
Cloud computing can help healthcare organizations focus on patient care and reducing costs, and it enables IT to be more flexible, agile, scalable, and secure as the healthcare industry changes and grows.
Read about it in the Azure blog.