Healthcare Solutions
The Future of Healthcare
A collection of perspectives from leading healthcare IT visionaries in the United States exploring how data-driven technologies are radically improving patient care, health outcomes, and population health.
For those of us working in healthcare these are exciting times. While no one has yet come close to creating a viable medical Tricorder, let alone a workable flying car, healthcare technology has made advances that put the medical field squarely in the "future." As we approach the 20th anniversary of The Human Genome Project we have to marvel at the fact that at the outset, to sequence one human genome, it cost more than $1 billion dollars and took 13 years to complete. Today, it takes one to two days and costs just $3,000 to $5,000 to perform that task.
Features and Benefits
The capabilities that set The Future of Healthcare apart.
Opening the Digital Front Door
How Tahoe Forest Hospital District is Opening the Digital Front Door
Today's consumers have embraced online access to products and services. From managing their bank account to ordering groceries online, consumers now expect to be able to access what they want, when they want it, online. And these expectations are presenting some challenges for healthcare providers.
The Cloud Holds the Key to Enabling Patient Access
In the past healthcare organizations wanted their technology on-premise where its maintenance and security were under their control. But as technology has evolved and as the cloud has become more prevalent in healthcare the need to keep things on-prem and in-house has diminished. Cloud has leveled the playing field and truly democratized IT.
Transformation is a Whole Hospital Project
Regardless of where a healthcare organization is in its transformation, the move to digital services is not an IT project. Rather it's a "whole hospital" project, because it involves every department in the facility.
Prescriptive Analytics
On the Cusp of Data-Fueled Revolution
For John Showalter, Chief Product Officer at Jvion, healthcare is on the cusp of a major data-fueled revolution. With healthcare being one of the few industries where Artificial Intelligence (AI) is ready for deployment, Showalter foresees a rapid change that will improve patient care and health outcomes.
Prescriptive Analytics: AI in Action
Prescriptive analytics not only anticipates what will happen and when it will happen, but also why it will happen. Further, prescriptive analytics suggests decision options on how to take advantage of a future opportunity or mitigate a future risk and shows the implication of each decision option.
Building the Infrastructure and Managing Obstacles
In many industries the ability to implement innovative technologies is stymied by a lack of infrastructure and an over abundance of obstacles. But healthcare organizations are a little different because they have embraced cloud storage and data management solutions to the benefit of patient, provider, and IT team alike.
Overcoming Obstacles and Delivering on the Vision
In the next five years there will be a rapid adoption of predictive analytics beyond today's use cases in hospital medicine and medical imaging. Within the next decade population health will be AI-driven, and there will be extensive use of predictive analytics in ambulatory medicine as well for risk mitigation, in particular.
Medical Imaging
Medical Imaging at the Forefront of Data-Driven Innovation
Medical imaging is one of the fastest growing fields of medical care. The field has come a long way from the grainy black and white images we relied on just a decade a go to diagnose everything from broken bones to the presence of tumors. In the last decade medical imaging has evolved to produce rich, multi-dimensional, high resolution images that help clinicians diagnose illnesses more quickly and more accurately to deliver better patient outcomes.
AI Uses Case in the Field of Medical Imaging
As medical imaging modalities improve the precision of the images they're gathering, we are discovering things that the eye can't see. Your eye can only see so much; with AI, computer-aided diagnostics is looking even deeper from a pixel-to-pixel level. That detail, layered with retrospective analyses and related diagnoses, gives a view we've never had before.
Building the Case for Investment in AI-Ready Infrastructure
Healthcare organizations must be willing to invest in the IT infrastructure, including the computing power, that is needed to support AI. Right now AI is expensive, which presents barriers to many healthcare systems. IT infrastructure is incredibly important. Without it, you can't successfully implement AI. It's impossible.
AI is Vital to the Future of Medical Imaging
Harnessing the power of AI to improve patient outcomes is within reach for most healthcare systems in the United States. While there are several different pathways to demonstrate the vitality of AI to clinical care and patient outcomes, building and implementing use cases in medical imaging represent a 'quick-win' opportunity for clinicians and healthcare information technology specialists.
Rural Healthcare
Rural Healthcare in Crisis
It's no secret that America's healthcare system is in crisis. From a shortage of doctors and nurses, provider burnout, and of course, the rising costs and accessibility of care, there are many challenges to overcome. And, while these challenges impact all Americans, they are most keenly felt in rural America.
The Urban-Rural Divide in Healthcare
While there is a national shortage of doctors, nurses and other medical staff, the impact of these shortages hits hardest in rural areas. Physicians who work in rural settings may be working as an emergency room physician, an inpatient physician and as a clinic physician, and the dependence on them is much greater than in other settings.
Telemedicine: An Idea Whose Time Has Come
Telemedicine presents an opportunity to solve the rural healthcare crisis. It can bring extra physicians, expert physicians and other specialty resources to a rural community without the need to hire new staff, build new support systems or add to the workload of clinical staff.
The Bottom Line
While healthcare organizations will never transform from brick and mortar operations to a fully digital environments, telemedicine is bringing tremendous opportunities for rural communities across the country to access more healthcare support.
As-a-Service
A Hospital or an IT Company?
When you think of the healthcare ecosystem that a patient needs to recover from a serious medical condition or maintain optimal health it's unlikely that a technology company will appear on top of the list. But in today's healthcare system having the right solutions and infrastructure on hand can make a significant difference for patients and clinicians alike.
From Early Technology Adopter to Industry Leader
As healthcare systems look to deliver exceptional standards of care for its patients it's inevitable that technology has become integral part of patient care. From the need to secure patient data, comply with regulations like HIPAA, mitigate ransomware, process petabytes of medical images, and analyze genetic data in-house it seems that sometimes a hospital is as much an IT company as it is medical facility.
Mercy's at Your Service
A long time ago, our team at MTS realized that if our IT team is focused on the nuances of our organization, where their domain knowledge is most valuable, and partnered with industry leading service providers, we were much more efficient and effective. We've partnered with NetApp to help manage and improve the performance of data environment, which has enabled our team to deliver data-driven healthcare solutions to our customers.
As-a-Service for Better Patient Care
From their early adoption of electronic health records MTS has been a leader in the field of healthcare IT. Their team's ability to deliver on the vision, not only for their own system but also for the wider healthcare community has ensured that more hospitals can access affordable, proven technology and that more patients have access to quality care.
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Technical Specifications
Exhaustive hardware and software metrics extracted directly from official documentation.
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Original Cost to Sequence One Human GenomeMore than $1 billion dollars
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Original Time to Sequence13 years
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Current Time to SequenceOne to two days
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Current Cost to Sequence$3,000 to $5,000
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Standard Non-Emergent CT Scan Read TimeAt least 72 hours
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AI-Triaged CT Scan Diagnosis Time30 minutes
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Diagnosis Time ImprovementFrom 3 days to 30 minutes
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Microsoft Cybersecurity ExpertsOver 3,500
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Security Coverage24/7/365
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Solution ComponentsBest-of-breed enterprise viewer, vendor neutral archive, workflow orchestrator, speech recognition and reporting
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Delivery ModelSoftware as a Service
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HostingMTS's cloud
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Radiology Team Efficiency Improvement30 to 50 percent
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Pricing ModelPay-per-use, no upfront infrastructure expense
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Savings RealizedOver $33 million
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Surgical Departments with Dashboards30
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EHR Refresh Cycle (Traditional)Every 3-5 years
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Parent Organization RankingFifth-largest Catholic health system in the United States
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