As baby-boomers continue to age, the demand on health services is set to double in the next 10 years. It’s not practical to believe the number of doctors and nurses, hospitals, and other healthcare providers will double also during this time, therefore, the industry will leverage technology to address these growing needs. Telephone and internet consultations will become increasingly more important as a method of providing and receiving healthcare advice.
Technology will be leveraged to provide care beyond the walls of hospitals and doctor’s offices, a routine trip to a doctor’s office could be replaced by a video, telephone, or even an internet consultation. Thereby free up time for the physician to spend with patients whose conditions require their full attention. In addition, healthcare providers will also increasingly need information systems to support non-collocated collaboration between clinicians.
The efficacy of telehealth requires the IT infrastructure to support this emerging remote physician-patient interaction; the infrastructure must connect and consolidate various imagining and clinical databases; and IT organizations must continually evaluate if and when SaaS and cloud computing is appropriate for their organization.
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