is healthcare going digital?

After I few days out...there are a couple of tweets that i have received this days that i'd like to comment on

On the one hand, i'd like to bring forward a very old tweet from Accenture (@Accenture) stating that  74% of doctors surveyed agree that #EHR are integral to effective patient care today. #healthIT http://t.co/Pc6Yar5tYu .

This is the take-home-number from the 2012 survey among 3,700 doctors in eight countries (Australia, Canada, England, France, Germany, Singapore, Spain and the United States). This  reveals that today’s doctors are going digital or at least the are being forced to it in a search for higher productivity.

Based on this year’s findings that show increasing levels of adoption of electronic medical records (EMR) and health information exchange (HIE). Globally, the number of physicians who describe themselves as “routinely” accessing clinical data about patients has increased by 42 percent (rising from 33 percent of doctors surveyed in 2011, to 47 percent in 2012). This is a very high and promising number.

Another key indicator of the overall rise in healthcare IT is the fact that 91 percent of the physicians surveyed report that they are active users of EMR either in their own practice or in a hospital/clinic. More than half of doctors surveyed (60 percent) report using EMR in their own medical practice.

This indicates that more and more doctors are going paperless.

On the other, Deloitte Health Care (@DeloitteHealth) tweeted a few days ago that their perspective on #bigdata is its potential for more effective #patient solutions. This consulting firm foresees that Health systems will prepare their data management environments for the era of big data, whatever it means...as big data is becoming the has-to-be-used word whenever two ideas are put toghether.

However it is true that, through more effective data capture, management, higher transparency, and multi-channel delivery of data assets as a shareable enterprise service to the many secondary data use cases, health systems can seek to bend the cost of data trajectory. This statement, that i have almost copied from their brochure on health informatics.

Pulling the string of this second tweet, one can find further insight in the previous idea: data as a service . Why is it that similar ideas are bubbling everywhere? i guess because techonology is now ripe enough to pursue them.

The health care industry has been focused on the eHR  journey , and everyday new sources of information are being added to the pool, includeing the increasing availability of genomics and proteomics data. These emerging data sources are pushing health systems into the reality of having to store and manage lots and lots of data, eventually even processing and mining them in the search of new evidence and knowledge.

The conclusion is that healthcare is  going digital in many aspects... even if we are not able- yet- to mail patients around.

Healthcare and big data ...this is buzzing everywhere

Deloitte Health Care (@DeloitteHealth) twitteó a las 11:34 PM on mié, jul 03, 2013: How might informatics help #lifesciences unlock the power of #bigdata to aid development of new therapies? http://t.co/UzYl25QtKi (https://twitter.com/DeloitteHealth/status/352540776695214080) Obtén la aplicación oficial de Twitter en https://twitter.com/download

The healthcare system seen by its clients

Deloitte Health Care (@DeloitteHealth) twitteó a las 8:41 PM on mié, jul 03, 2013: A majority of #consumers consider the #health system wasteful, inefficient, and difficult to navigate. http://t.co/9UUBUEuVJL #CHSblog (https://twitter.com/DeloitteHealth/status/352497413812006913) Obtén la aplicación oficial de Twitter en https://twitter.com/download