"We need pragmatic innovations to solve today's healthcare challenges”

Soma Tah  

The biggest healthcare challenge that the organizations faced during the pandemic crisis was keeping up with the demands. Thanks to the quick interventions by the technology players, they rose to the challenge and accomplished what even a few months ago would have seemed impossible. But are we ready for whatever comes next? Well, Dell Technologies certainly is. The company says that healthcare is at the forefront and plays a central role in its strategy.  

“We are ready to empower the healthcare industry’s vision of serving humanity with its solutions. When our company announced our 2030 social impact vision and moonshot goals in 2019, healthcare was front and centre in it. Our founder, Michael Dell announced that we are looking at touching a billion lives by 2030. I'm very excited to see the role Dell Technologies is going to play in healthcare, as we team up with healthcare customers and partners,” said Sathya K, Regional Sales Manager- Education & Healthcare, Dell Technologies during her industry keynote in the PCQuest HealthTech Forum.  

Technologies and services customized for the Healthcare industry 

Today, Dell Technologies is not only a leading PC server and storage organization, it has an unmatched capability of technologies and services as well. Dell works with customers of all scales and across the healthcare categories like hospitals, pharma, HealthTech and more and helps to accelerate their transformation journey, keeping their visions, unique requirements, and budget in mind. 

“We combine industry-leading capabilities, global expertise, best practices and our ISV capabilities to deliver jointly-engineered, tested, certified and pre-integrated solutions that provide the highest level of performance, availability, security and automation to best meet the requirements of the healthcare ecosystem players. We enable the multi-cloud world, software defining everything with our solutions. We help customers transform, automate and modernize data centres. We enable workforce transformation with Dell clients and we settled all of this with intelligent business-driven security. We are getting closer to our customers by developing, co-working, and customizing solutions that best fit each organization's ecosystem,” said Sathya.   

Technologies will power the Future of Health  

We are in the middle of a data and technology explosion that is disrupting the healthcare industry. Over the next eight years, the data will zoom up so much that we will become a planet with 163 zettabytes of data produced per year, connecting 8 billion people and 75 billion devices every 18 seconds. According to Forbes, up to 20 per cent of the data will be critical to our lives and the amount of data and the healthcare organization control nowadays is skyrocketing with each passing day.

Analyzing these data with predictive analytics tools can lead to potential new ways to treat each patient's disease- bringing the ideas of personalized medicine into the realm of reality. As the admission costs per bed and patient management costs continue to rise over time, remote patient monitoring and virtual care technologies will help hospitals reduce readmissions through new preventive measures. Analytics platforms will help to unlock patients’ data for remote consultation and predictive medicine.

“There's never been a better time to embrace the fast-developing benefits of virtual health from increased access to care, improved patient outcomes and increasing access to reimbursement and reducing overall cost of care. Healthcare players are also implementing new revenue streams that accommodate these new modalities,” said Sathya.

“We want to adapt seamlessly to a world that is constantly redefining itself. We offer pragmatic innovations that address some of healthcare's toughest challenges today i.e. connected health. Modern IT infrastructure, digital tools, agile platforms, secure websites, and expanded data interoperability will help clinical teams to take advantage of this newly digitalized data,” she said.

Telehealth will play an important role in future healthcare, going forward. Patients and their families value their flexibility to communicate with care providers from the comfort of their own homes at a convenient time. “As providers evolve telehealth services, they must continue to improve interoperability across the care gamut to gain a complete picture of the patient from all sources- EMR, AI, IoT devices, direct patient input, and more. This will help them to determine whether the patient is chronically ill or seeking wellness guidance,” said Sathya.

Remote imaging and diagnostics can now be enabled by modern infrastructure and modern end-user technology that processes large datasets fast to make new digitalized patient information and diagnostic results accessible to the key providers independent of their location.

“As workflows get digitalized, and the healthcare industry leverages new technologies like AI and ML to discover new patterns and correlations leading to innovative solutions, we help customers with the optimal IT infrastructure for today and tomorrow. The scalable building blocks are optimized to meet the needs of specialized clinical applications,” concluded Sathya. 

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