The document discusses the integral role of hospitals in healthcare and the significant technological challenges they face, such as interoperability, big data management, data security, outdated technology, and maintaining a competitive advantage. Interoperability issues complicate patient data sharing, while the influx of big data overwhelms systems, and cyber threats pose risks to patient information. Healthcare organizations must navigate these challenges while implementing technologies to enhance care and competitiveness.

1. HOSPITAL AND TECHNOLOGY-
DEALING WITH
TECHNOLOGICAL PROBLEMS
Presented by
Uma Maheswari.G
RA2022321010010

2. HOSPITAL
The word “Hospital” derived from the Latin word hospitalis
which in turn derived from the French word “hospes” that means “
a host or a guest”.
The hospital is an integral part of a social and medical
organization ,the functions of which is to provide complete health
care both curative and preventive and whose outpatients services
reach out the family and its home environment .
The hospital is also a Centre for the training of health worker and
for bio social researches.
- WHO Expert committee ,1956.

3. TECHNOLOGY
 The branch of knowledge that deals with the creation and use of
technical means and their interrelation with life, society, and the
environment, drawing upon such subjects as industrial arts,
engineering, applied science, and pure science.

4. DEALING WITH
TECHNOLOGICAL PROBLEMS
1.Interoperability
One of the biggest challenges facing the healthcare industry
is interoperability.
As part of federal healthcare mandates, your organization must be able
to keep patient data secure while also sharing it quickly with care teams.
And not just your internal teams.

5. According to theHealthcare Information and Management Systems Society
(HIMSS), the scope of interoperability in healthcare includes “the ability of
different information systems, devices and applications (systems) to access,
exchange, integrate and cooperatively use data in a coordinated manner, within
and across organizational, regional and national boundaries, to provide timely
and seamless portability of information and optimize the health of individuals
and populations globally.”

6. 2.BIG DATA
Doctors expect it interoperability to include patient health data from wearable
devices and consumer apps.
That’s a lot of data flowing into your system, adding to the already massive
amount of information you’re currently dealing with.
According to a report by Health box, Healthcare’s big data can be boiled down
to four principal “Vs”—Volume, Velocity, Variety, and Validity.
 Bottom line: It’s a challenge not only for accessing and storing all that patient
information, but also in converting it into meaningful insights.

7. Payers, providers, labs, pharmacies, and other healthcare
organizations generate a massive volume of patient data. So do sensors,
smartphones, medical devices, and wearable's. With this data being provided in
real time, the velocity bombards you with valuable information faster
than you can make sense of it. The variety of data adds
to interoperability issues, while also making it difficult to validate the accuracy
of the information.
Artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and other solutions can
work hand-in-glove with clinicians to interpret the flood of patient data and use
it to achieve better health outcomes.

8. 3.DATA SECURITY
While interoperability and big data issues loom large, the
towering concern you must defend against is the threat to patient data.
Cyber attacks against health systems occur with alarming frequency.
According to IT security firm Sophos, 34% of healthcare
organizations were hit by ransom ware in the last year.

9. The average cost of a ransom ware attack, Sophos reported, was $1.27 million.
That figure includes downtime, personnel hours spent, device expenditures,
network costs, lost opportunities, ransom paid, and other expenses.
The worst part? On average, organizations that resorted to paying the
ransom had only 69% of their data returned in an accessible form.
Ransom ware is only one threat to health data. Other forms of malware are still a
recurring problem for health systems. Your IT team still must defend against
viruses, worms, Trojan horses, and other security gap exploitations.

10. 4 .OUTDATED TECHNOLOGY
An outdated IT infrastructure hinders your efforts to
overcome interoperability, big data, and data security
challenges. Healthcare systems already strain under an increasing load of
bandwidth-intensive connected devices, according to HIT Infrastructure.
And that’s just one stressor. Adding in the software to needed
to effectively process big data for example, may push your outdated system
to the breaking point.

11. But updating the system can also present challenges. Your legacy systems
may not interface easily with newer software solutions, and yet are often
too expensive to replace.
Custom application programming interfaces (APIs) and other
workarounds can be built to connect modern software with legacy systems
in some cases—but that adds work to your already overburdened IT team.

12. 5.COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE
While contending with those four big challenges, you still have
to compete with other healthcare systems in your area. Delivering
high quality care is the number one way to attract patients, of
course, but there are technology factors at play, too.
Some Of The Technologies Healthcare Systems Use To Gain
A Competitive Advantage Include:
Telehealth
Electronic health records (EHR) and electronic medical records
(EMR)

13. Mobile health (mHealth) apps
Interactive patient portals
Nextgen Connect
 Business Intelligence (BI)
Health information exchange (HIE)
E-prescribing
Pharmacy management

14. Health care organizations use these technologies to increase patient
engagement, comply with value-based care, streamline operations, and
improve quality of care.
But with IT teams already overwhelmed meeting other technology
challenges, implementing new solutions can get pushed down in priority.
As a result, you might lose business to competitors who can put these
systems in place.

15. REFERENCE
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