6 Ways Cloud Computing Is Improving Healthcare

Healthcare technology encompasses IT tools or software specifically designed to give new insights into medicines and treatments, enhance hospital and administrative productivity, and improve the quality of care provided. Along with their in-house capabilities companies in Healthcare and Health Life Sciences are leveraging cloud computing technology to increase efficiency and decrease costs. At a broader level cloud computing in health care helps in protecting critical data with confidential computing, making record sharing easy and safe, automating backend operations and facilitating the creation and maintenance of telehealth apps.

• Cloud computing for running critical applications.

It helps in culling, analyzing and extracting important information the huge pile of unstructured data, including physician and lab notes, that might be typed or handwritten via the natural language processing capabilities of machine learning. Radiologist readings can be cloud-analyzed.

• Scaling on premises

Depending on cloud computing the loads of data generated every day in healthcare centers can be kept and restored when needed. On premises keeping all this data becomes cumbersome and almost impossible as the quantum of data grows by the day.

• For primary diagnosis and treatment.

The data stored in patient’s charts can help in the primary diagnosis. Many a time if not stored adequately the patient’s past history might get obliterated. Extracting this information on time gets that much easier with cloud computing. Robots aided by cloud technology are seen assisting surgeries too. Moreover, doctors are using virtual and augmented reality perform important tasks, like practicing new surgical techniques or explaining procedures to patients.

• Administrative uses

Hospitals are able to manage their ever-growing administrative workloads using cloud computing. Software tools, artificial intelligence is helping administrative teams manage patient flows by accurately calculating wait times to predicting peak busy hours for staff scheduling. The technology uses cloud based appsto ask patients initial questions and prioritize schedules so that doctors can use their time more efficiently.

• Cloud technology in Drug Development

The pharma industry is using AI and machine learning to power drug research and development. Speeding up processes and understanding chemical combinations using stored data helps create new combination of drugs. This also helps in patient trials and identifying patient groups. The cloud-based technology also helps in incorporating fitness regimes and identifying erroneous diagnosis and other aspects of pathology and diagnostics.

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What does it mean for L&D professionals in healthcare?

Healthcare tech professionals need to be up-to-date with the latest developments in not just the top technologies but also how those technologies are applied. The responsibility rests with L&D professionals of healthcare to ensure the learning initiatives follow the two-pronged approach of tech skilling with industry focus.