The document discusses key forces driving change in the healthcare industry, including governmental mandates, evolving technologies, and growing consumer empowerment. It outlines how the healthcare informatics market is growing due to progress in areas like electronic health records, remote patient monitoring, and use of patient data. The cloud is fundamentally changing healthcare technology by offering improvements like on-demand access to health records, sharing of research and patient data, and optimized billing transparency between insurers and doctors.

1. Healthcare Industry Forces Healthcare Informatics
The US healthcare industry is undergoing fundamental change brought on by: The informatics
• Governmental mandate and regulatory updates Provider Remote market is rapidly
• Rapidly evolving technologies Monitoring
• Growing consumer empowerment Electronic Health Record growing due to
industry progress.
Basic Science
Patients Research
•Patient Data Collection/Distribution
Data/Delivery
•Consumer Health Education
•Mobile Access
Apps
•Device-to-Device, Peer-to-Peer Network Data
Miners
Systems •EMR, PHR Interoperability
Integration •Larger-scale Compatibility Medical Use of targeted patient data for:
Medical Diagnostics and • Effective delivery operations
Device •Internet of Things Practitioners Devices • Clear and comprehensive
Interface •Informatics/Data-Mining performance metrics
• Faster application of research to
IT/Physical •Cloud-Computing clinical practice.
Infrastructure •Data Storage
Hospital and device
company data centers
Government
Healthcare Interoperability Healthcare Cloud
Healthcare technology is fundamentally being changed by the cloud. Cloud utilization will offer
Healthcare improvements through incorporation of the following attributes into the business process:
interoperability
is essential to
On-demand & remote
success in all patient access to their Storage of patient
aspects of the comprehensive health data & imagery
healthcare records
industry to
realize the value
of integrating
Optimize billing
systems and Sharing of research
transparency
and clinical patient
devices within data
between insurance
companies &
and between doctors
care centers.