In the era of digital transformation, almost every industrial sector has embraced systems to modernize practices and processes to serve people better. Despite advances in science and medication, the healthcare industry lags behind in the adaptation of healthcare software solutions and digital transformation.
When it comes to improving patient care, new techniques and advanced solutions revolutionize medical procedures, automated diagnostic techniques, smart drugs, and more. So, why aren’t providers leading digital transformation with modern healthcare software and organizational processes?
McKinsey reported the barriers around digital transformation in healthcare are not a technological problem. Instead, it’s typically stalled by culture, mindset, organizational structure, and governance.
Isolated and disconnected organizational functions don’t meet the evolving needs of healthcare payers. These processes are also ineffective in handling the unprecedented growth of big data in healthcare. So, what can healthcare organizations do to overcome the challenges of digital transformation?
Upgrading Your Technology Foundation With Healthcare Software
Upgrading your processes to incorporate new tools can feel overwhelming. Start tackling your digital transformation strategy by creating an inventory of what products and services would benefit most from the change. What is slowing your team down the most?
Your technology foundation could include anything that impacts the core of your business. This might mean upgrading legacy systems, implementing new methodologies, and adding to your talent pool.
McKinsey reported four core principles for successful digital transformation
- Identify and prioritize critical sources of value
- Build service-delivery capabilities
- Modernize IT foundations
- Build and maintain core management competencies.
Improving Cybersecurity Measures
Improving security protocols is imperative for digital transformation.
Healthcare providers face this consistent challenge cybersecurity threats. Healthcare software must proactively protect sensitive patient health information while providing convenient access to those who need it.
Keeping patient privacy in check and ensuring accuracy for quality care isn’t easy. It’s especially difficult with an industry frequently suffering from data hacks. In 2019, about 2.9 million patients’ records were compromised due to a nine-year hack by cybercriminals on the Dominion National insurer’s server.
Maintaining Interoperability
Healthcare providers who utilize electronic health records (EHRs) face challenges around ensuring the data is interoperable between healthcare software systems used by clinicians, labs, vendors, pharmacies, and patients. Integrations, and access to data sources are some ways to support accurate, efficient, and meaningful clinical data exchange within and across organizational boundaries.
According to a 2019 InstaMed survey, 90% of providers rely on paper and manual processes for patient collections. With a lack of patient identification, communication standards, and segregated EHRs systems, healthcare spend time and money on manual and antiquated processes, whether this is due to paper processes or lack of access to data and integrations.
How To Overcome the Challenges of Digital Transformation and Healthcare Software
IT plays a critical role in transitioning healthcare systems in digital care delivery. However, the IT function in hospitals is mostly busy in overseeing operations, managing infrastructure and email systems, optimizing EHRs systems, and improving interoperability between disparate platforms.
As a result, healthcare organizations often spend too much time focusing on IT maintenance and not enough time on developing the right healthcare software to best support their digital transformation.
One way hospitals can achieve their digital transformation goals is by collaborating with a technology partner that offers instant access to technology experts that hospitals can leverage to efficiently and cost-effectively address modernization challenges.
As a trusted technology partner, Xperity enables healthcare organizations to rapidly implement digital strategies that help extract value from what they already have as well as develop custom healthcare software solutions that enhance interoperability between existing IT systems.
delaPlex’s expertise and experience further help hospitals evaluate new and emerging cyber threats, so that patient health information remains protected.
Achieve Your Digital Transformation Goals with a Technology Partner
Xperity was founded by engineers who experienced the issues of software development firsthand. We’re passionate about software development and helping our clients.
We have also seen how powerful a well-managed global agile team is. Making sure everyone’s on the right page is a challenge, but it’s a challenge we specialize in solving.
Whether you are building a custom application for your healthcare organization, migrating your existing systems to the cloud, or generating valuable insights from your data through predictive analytics in healthcare, our world-class team of software developers, testers, data scientists, and AI/ML experts can help you turn your digital transformation goals into a reality.
Our state-of-the-art development facilities are ISO 9001:2015 quality compliant and verified by a qualified third-party organization to be HIPAA Compliant.
Want to learn more about how Xperity can help you? Contact us today to start the conversation.
