- Since 2020, there has been an exponential increase in digitization motivated by the pandemic.
- Some of the areas that have grown the most are telecare, telemedicine and digital medical prescription.
- It is estimated that by 2025 the healthtech industry will have a global value of 660 billion dollars.
One year is about to end and it is time to glimpse what the following months will be like. Within the field of health healthcare industry It is one of the ones that has had the most changes due to its direct relationship with technology. It is a field that reinvents itself every day and on many occasions marks the way forward.
In that sense, the accelerated digitization in the last three years in the healthcare industry It has caused 2023 to become a year of consolidation for many institutions, which have gone through this process during that period.
Although many of the digital changes that were made during 2020 were forced by the urgency of the emergency in medical care and the need for social distancing, little by little the conditions have been adopted for greater organization and planning of processes in hospitals and clinics, facing the new needs of the future.
What does the term healthtech mean?
The term arose by combining the words health (health, in Spanish) and tech (technology). It refers to the sector of companies that use the most recent advances but focused on aspects related to health services.
With this in mind, hospital management supported by digital processes has gone from being a differentiating factor in the service to a basic need for institutions seeking to survive a new era. Now the way of working and the behavior of the patients set new operating rules.
2022 marked a breakthrough in the way health institutions have planned their operations in the medium and long term. Whereas now bionexo share the trends that will be a reality for the healthtech industry in 2023.
Measurement of the impact of digitization implementation
Almost three years of advances in digital processes today show a more complete picture of how the industry has been better served by them. In business terms, the investment in information technologies has been reflected in faster, more efficient and safer administrative procedures, if we consider that many recently adopted safety and hygiene habits will continue to be present in our daily lives. Continuing to measure the impact of this transformation will be key to making adjustments during this consolidation process.
Digital literacy in the health sector
Recent years have been characterized by large waves of training courses in the use of digital tools. From the most basic to the most advanced systems so that no one in the industry is left behind. 2023 represents the last call for those professionals in the sector who have not yet jumped on the digital wave that, with or without them, will continue to advance. A trend for institutions will be to plan adequately in training, as well as encourage their collaborators to adopt digitization as part of their professional profiles.
Information technologies applied to corporate governance
In an era in which institutions must be an example of good administration, the health sector must be the spearhead in maintaining transparent procedures, which give peace of mind to all the actors in the sector, starting of course, with the patients. The inclusion of compliance issues will continue to grow in 2023 and digitization will play a fundamental role.
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