| | February - 20188CIOReviewThe healthcare industry is at a tipping point for mainstream adoption of state-of-the-art technologies, making a shift from research/proof-of-concept to actionable healthcare and clinical applications. While a variety of new drivers are enabling an elevated level of care, data has occupied the center stage, fueling the transformation by weeding out subpar facilities, inefficient services, and more importantly exorbitant medications and treatment. In essence, these datasets form the bedrock to enable customer-centric digital experiences, increase engagement rates, drive competition, and enhance the quality of healthcare outcomes. The new data-centric paradigm coupled with the expanding reach of technology is allowing organizations to better assess the impact of existing and emerging drugs and treatments by accessing, sharing and analyzing real-world evidence. Bolstering this trend, the digital mobile engagement is bringing the healthcare data at fingertips, thus bridging communication voids and creating information pathways in a clinical trial. Besides, a new wave of healthcare services is surmounting barriers of distance to deliver care in a faster and more personalized way, backed by telehealth and patient engagement technologies. Underpinned by the third-generation telecommunication technologies, the concept of virtual care/telemedicine can act as a catalyst in attaining true digitization. With this, the explosion of wearable devices for diverse functions is enabling patients to become true partners with their care managers and providers, thus opening up new possibilities to improve health outcomes and reduce the overall expenditure. This is where the Internet of Things has found room in healthcare, playing a vital role in asset tracking and remote health monitoring to enhance patient safety and operational efficiency.As we move forward, healthcare leaders need to grasp complex data thoroughly, and analytics is paving the way for it. In essence, data integrity will have a crucial role to play for gleaning valuable and rich insights--be it identifying at-risk patients within a population or exchanging information for a 360-view of the patients. The path to realizing the true potential of the data deluge available is rockier than usual. Unless the companies living under a rock, leaders have developed a keen eye for success that has lately come to depend on digitizing their business. Healthcare is catching up fast on seizing this opportunity, which is no longer an option­it's an imperative.Jeevan George Managing Editoreditor@cioreview.comEditorialDigitize or DefunctCopyright © 2018 ValleyMedia, Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or part of any text, photography or illustrations without written permission from the publisher is prohibited. The publisher assumes no responsibility for unsolicited manuscripts, photographs or illustrations. Views and opinions expressed in this publication are not necessarily those of the magazine and accordingly, no liability is assumed by the publisher thereof.CIOReviewFEBRUARY - 2018Mailing AddressCIOReview44790 S. Grimmer Blvd Suite 202, Fremont, CA 94538T:510-230-0395, F:510-894-8405 FEBRUARY - 2018, Vol 07 SE 07 Published by ValleyMedia, Inc.To subscribe to CIOReviewVisit www.cioreview.com CIOReviewEditorial StaffSalesT:510-230-0395Aaron PierceCarolynn WaltersJasmin AliJustin SmithKyle SummersRussell ThomasRichard Watsonrichard@cioreview.comVisualizersIssac GeorgeK. ManojkumarManaging EditorJeevan GeorgeHEALTHCARE SPECIAL*Some of the Insights are based on the interviews with respective CIOs and CXOs to our editorial staff
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