ABSTRACT
Technological advances in the past decade have provided health systems with enormously powerful tools to enhance productivity and increase convenience. Pandemic inspired advances in 2020 alone have doubled capabilities. The shift toward value-based care and precision and personalized medicine implies the need for advanced analytics in healthcare delivery. Terms like “artificial intelligence,” “machine learning,” “deep learning,” and “predictive analytics” are commonly used today by technology vendors as well as health systems. “Cloud has lowered the barriers of entry for building bigger stacks of technology platforms,” says Manu Tandon, Chief information officers at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. Healthcare leaders have to think through several issues when migrating their data and mission-critical systems to the cloud. Digital health innovation relies on many aspects of the underlying infrastructure. Network reliability is an important one. With healthcare shifting from the hospital to home, Internet of Things devices such as wearables and sensors are playing an increasingly important role in care delivery.
