Everyone’s talking about big data, and we do too here at Medico. In healthcare especially, data access will have tremendous advantages to both patients and providers. Below are some key advantages of employing data in a healthcare setting:
For Patients
- Easy access to medical records which includes prescription history, laboratory and radiology results will enable patients to be well informed wherever they are. This will help them to self-manage their health and be more proactive in finding care and preventing sickness.
- Patients will also have informative and connective access to doctors, specialists, pharmacists, complete with histories of consults and prescriptions with them.
For Doctors
- Data helps doctors analyze on real clinical encounters, treatments and outcomes, identifying what really works.
- Doctors can help intervene in a specific case to reduce severity and complications from a patient’s sickness.
- Instant information helps doctors make better critical decisions.
For Providers
- Analyzing historical clinical data and outcomes can help management to reduce costs and prevent clinical errors.
- Each clinical encounter will have a specific KPIs that can help improve efficacies of the doctors, the drugs being prescribed, the time it takes to get a treatment among others.
- Sharing of data can help the healthcare industry prevent and manage certain disease outbreaks.
