Globally, healthcare systems are continually faced with changing population demographics, increased patient demand and expectations, as well as the global growth of chronic diseases and clinical and related staff shortages. This calls into question the fiscal sustainability of health services and in the digital health landscape.
Health informatics must therefore play an increasingly important role in creating a more efficient and effective healthcare system. This should include a unified summary of patients’ electronic medical records and increased use of effective telemedicine systems and health technology.
In 1968, people began to talk about digital medical records.
The origin of the digital healthcare landscape began with digital medical records, with Dr. Larry Weed’s publication in the New England Journal of Medicine and the publication of “Medical Records that Guide and Teach” in March 1968. Since then, no even a unified and fully integrated electronic medical record for your population.
In the digital healthcare landscape, patient data remains siled and medical records are fragmented. That is why we need to address semantic interoperability issues in the future and address legacy data issues.
There are a number of trends in the digital healthcare landscape that need to be further developed
Without a doubt, it is a significant challenge and if these problems are not resolved, it delays the creation of an effective integrated care system and the optimal use of eHealth to generate the much-needed benefits, as well as the improvement of the results of patients and savings across the board.
- There are also a number of trends in the digital healthcare landscape that need further development, including:
- Improvement of cybersecurity, especially in the development of quantum computing.
- Rules and regulation of Artificial Intelligence.
- User role-based access (RBAC).
- Telemedicine.
- Approval of wearable products that help patients manage their own illnesses.
- The use of a common data layer for system integration.
- Ability to stratify the patient population based on risk.
- Development of consistent clinical ontologies and terminologies across the healthcare field.
Over the past two decades, we have seen increasing adoption of the use of eHealth systems, including electronic patient records, around the world. Also, after the irruption of the pandemic caused by COVID19telemedicine and virtual appointments have seen much greater acceptance and this trend is likely to continue.