{"id":371,"date":"2018-06-27T14:18:58","date_gmt":"2018-06-27T14:18:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/linxnet.com.ng\/blog\/?p=371"},"modified":"2018-06-27T14:33:19","modified_gmt":"2018-06-27T14:33:19","slug":"it-transformation-in-health-care-sector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/linxnet.com.ng\/blog\/it-transformation-in-health-care-sector\/","title":{"rendered":"IT Transformation in health care sector\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/linxnet.com.ng\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/smart-doctor-hand-working-with-modern-laptop-computer-in-modern-with-picture-id697650898.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/linxnet.com.ng\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/smart-doctor-hand-working-with-modern-laptop-computer-in-modern-with-picture-id697650898.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-370 alignnone size-full\" width=\"612\" height=\"408\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Digital transformation is affecting almost all sectors of the economy. Starting from engineering to finance and the to health sector. They utilizes IT transformation for affective business performance. Virtually all the players in the vast and complex healthcare ecosystem are stepping up their digitization and digital transformation efforts as a result of these and other challenges but they also see the opportunities in digitally transforming healthcare. The \u2018organization\u2019 of healthcare is different across the globe and Healthcare organizations are moving at different speeds, depending on country, legal framework, political agenda, individual organization, role in the healthcare ecosystem and the precise goals of digital transformation within each individual context: from enhancing patient-centricity in hospitals and improving workforce conditions to new ways of care, for instance remote health monitoring by leveraging&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/linxnet.com.ng\/cloud-computing.html\">cloud computing<\/a>&nbsp;and the&nbsp;<a href=\"htto:\/\/datacabling.linxnet.com.ng \">IoT<\/a>&nbsp;. Some see digital<a href=\"http:\/\/linxnet.com.ng \"> transformation<\/a>&nbsp;and digitization as a stepping stone to reduce the excessive healthcare expenditure. Now, the big players in this healthcare ecosystem are all pushing and pressing for the need of digital transformation. But the success of this effort relies on the vast reach of the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/linxnet.com.ng \">digitization technology.<\/a>&nbsp;It should reach all the nooks and corner of any nation.<\/p>\n<p>Is it about leveraging digital<a href=\"http:\/\/linxnet.com.ng \"> technologies&nbsp;<\/a>in novel ways to improve health? Is it about leveraging digital technologies in order to make healthcare more affordable and cost- effective (which is a universal need) ? Is it about finding new revenue sources as healthcare does need to be funded? Is it the digital transformation of an entire industry in nations where healthcare tourism is seen as an importance source of revenue, among others in some countries which were more dependent on oil and are transforming to become service economies.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Telemedicine in Health Care:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>This &nbsp;involves the use of&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"display: inline !important;\">telecommunication technology to remotely&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"display: inline !important;\">diagnose and treat the patients. In a survey&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"display: inline !important;\">back in 2016, it was found that doctors&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"display: inline !important;\">consider telemedicine as a better way to&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"display: inline !important;\">treat chronic diseases. They say that the&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"display: inline !important;\">traditional office visits to doctors are more&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"display: inline !important;\">tiresome and demoralizing for patients.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Telemedicine is finding enormous success in the field of mental health care. The patients needing emotional support are finding quick access to therapists on just a click of the button at a much-reduced cost.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Cloud computing Health sector&nbsp;<\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"display: inline !important;\">Cloud technology is widely adopted by&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"display: inline !important;\">healthcare organizations worldwide. During thev<\/p>\n<p style=\"display: inline !important;\">past few years, healthcare industries have&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"display: inline !important;\">realized the potential of cloud computing and&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"display: inline !important;\">how it can help them give quality services to&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"display: inline !important;\">patients. The cloud technology has&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"display: inline !important;\">accelerated the way healthcare industry can&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"display: inline !important;\">use or share information across a network.<\/p>\n<p style=\"display: inline !important;\">\n<p style=\"display: inline !important;\">\n<p style=\"display: inline !important;\">\n<p style=\"display: inline !important;\">\n<p style=\"display: inline !important;\">\n<p style=\"display: inline !important;\">\n<p style=\"display: inline !important;\">\n<p style=\"display: inline !important;\">Are you a medical professional, &nbsp;do you wish to digitalised your hospital, do you need the recent technologies to increase your care performance, contact&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/linxnet.com.ng \">LINX NETWORKS LTD &nbsp;<\/a>we have all it takes to deploy a state of the art infrastructure to your hospital, &nbsp;our technicians are highly skill and experienced professionals who has our client satisfaction as their priority.&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/http\/\/linxnet.com.ng \">Contact us<\/a>&nbsp;now and you &nbsp;will feel the difference&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Digital transformation is affecting almost all sectors of the economy. 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