Healthcare Software Blog

In the healthcare sector, we face a massive amount of important information. There is also a lot of personal data of patients that hackers can merge into the network, use to manipulate people, extort money, and do other bad things. More about it in our healthcare software blog: Cybersecurity in Healthcare Podcast Article.

Fast evolvement of the  Healthcare Industry has brought a brand new way of connection between a patient and his doctors. Location is not an issue anymore and steady real time communication is a great gift of modern telemedicine. The next Digital Healthcare Trends are:

• Telemedicine Enriched and Advanced
• The waiting room moved online
• Decentralization of health data
• Remote Elderly Care 
• Eldercare space 
• Augmented Intelligence
• Consumerization of the industry  

More about it in healthcare software blog: Digital Healthcare Trends 2022

Remote Patient Monitoring system (RPM) is the way of supervising people’ health outside the frame of a traditional medical institution. It is achieved with the help of modern technology solutions like a smartphone, fitness tracker, other devices and software at locations where it is not easy physically to contact your family doctor. It may be home or office, or a trip, for example. The health information that was captured by a device is being shared to medical professionals for investigation, setting diagnosis, and consultations support. 

RPM Solution benefits:

• Improved diagnostics 
• Better patients’ self-organization
• Net patient profit promoted 
• Chance to avoid infections 
• Patient engagement boosted 
• Better user comfort and encounter 
• Better access to healthcare services 
• Budget savings for both patients and caregivers 

More about it in medical software blog: Remote patient monitoring solutions and their benefits

HIPAA is aimed to expand the use of medical data in digital versions, simultaneously protecting it. HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) was signed by Bill Clinton in 1996. This legislation aims to combine healthcare and insurance within digitalization.

The security part of HIPAA is known for 3 main purposes. The first one is to make sure that electron data regarding the patient is protected. Secondly, it’s important to ensure that such data is protected at a maximum level. Moreover, there should be a maintenance of the PHI auditable trail.

More about it in healthcare app development blog: HIPAA – Purposes and Compliances

Point of Care is a robust software and hardware created for healthcare providers’ benefit. It helps them manage administrative tasks, patient data storage, transmission, and rapid diagnostics. Being a hospital information system, PoC has bedside devices for recording and accessing data at the very location where patients are being cured.

PoC systems substitute many functions of the paper scheme; they are often (wrongly!) treated like digital healthcare records. PoC systems are designed for various purposes like physician offices, clinics, medical centers, emergency, various hospital departments, treatment at home, intensive care rooms, long-term care services, and even prehospital ones.

More about it in medical software blog: Point of Care software solutions

What is EMR or Electronic medical records? It’s a digital version of paper charts specific to one patient. Such EMR is added to electronic data based on a single treatment case. If to exemplify, if one male patient is being treated against migraine, his electronic chart will contain all details of treatment and patient’s history. But generally, any EMR of any patient is generally placed and stored in one particular clinic. Such EMR data don’t ‘migrate’ from one clinic to another, thus making it less convenient when comparing with EHR.

What is EHR (Electronic Health Records)? Actually, it’s like EMR, but there’s more that it can perform. First of all, it’s important to note that EHR doesn’t focus on one particular treatment case to be stored in a particular place. For example, in the case of EMR, there have been cases when physicians printed the records and would send them to another physician in another clinic. Thus, it can be said the EHR makes it possible for medical data to ‘migrate’ from one place to another where such data will play an important role in treating the patient.

EHR is an electronic version of medical data but not focusing on one single treatment history. Instead, it focuses on the overall health history of the patient. For example, if any patient is brought to the emergency, it’s important that medical staff won’t inject something he or she is allergic to. So, here comes EHR that can enlighten any healthcare staff responsible for treating the patient. Moreover, EHR minimizes unneeded screenings of the patient, which in turn can be detrimental to the patient. Since all screenings will be reflected on the electronic records, any physician will have to think over what is needed more, instead of undergoing every procedure again.

It’s not a surprising fact that electronic data has made treatment and healthcare more efficient in many senses. It’s not only about easily accessible data, but such data makes the treatment more cost-effective. If to go beyond one clinic with the main focus on more accessible data to authorized personnel, EHR is definitely more efficient and more practical.

More about it in healthcare app development blog: EMR vs EHR – How electronic health records will improve patient care?