Health Care

Healthcare is undergoing a distinct movement along a logical trajectory from its historical focus on acute care i.e. dealing with immediate and severe outbreaks of illness, to chronic care, continuous care for long term illness that may reduce acute cases to preventive care, i.e. care focussed on early detection and treatment of illness, including immunisation, ultimately leading to predictive care, i.e. not waiting for early signs of illness but predicting and thwarting it before the illness has the chance to take root. This revolution would move us away from a curative drug based healthcare towards consulting/service based healthcare with focus on lifestyle, and adapting behaviour to prevent and cut out the roots of any instance of illness.

This changing scenario of the healthcare industry has drastically changed the IT requirements of hospitals. There are clear challenges within the current healthcare ecosystem that must be overcome before the healthcare revolution is realised.