Medicohealth: Benefits of information technology in healthcare

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Medicohealth

2 min readJan 18, 2019

Healthcare industry is encountering many challenges nowadays — from growing costs to the aging population with higher demand for healthcare services.

Technology enabled cares became an integral part of the solution. Although health systems remain a highly labor-intensive business sector, an expansion of information and communications technology (ICT) has been taking place in healthcare over the last few years.

The increasing value of information technology (IT) in the healthcare system is recognized by many consumers as well as industry insiders. More and more people are appreciating the benefits of online and mobile information exchange with their health providers.

Benefits of IT implemented in healthcare:

1. Mobile technology is supporting patients with control over how personal information is used, where it is stored and ultimately who can have access to it.

2. It provides a powerful tool for patients to become an active partner in their health.

3. According to American national survey in 2014, people with online access to their medical data are more motivated to improve their health.

Researches are confirming the hypothesizes

Deloitte’s 2015 Survey of U.S. Health Care Consumers showed that:

62% of respondents feel comfortable consulting with a provider via email or phone;
52% of consumers would like access to technology that enables review of quality and satisfaction rankings;
36% of consumers have no concerns about using mobile technology to pay their medical bills
Even more, 23% paid their medical bills by using mobile technology in the past year.

MedicoHealth platform

Based on these findings, Medicohealth is building a platform, that will empower patients with information necessary to become an active partner in their health care. Patients will have better connections with providers, which will enable them to bolster engagement with more informed decision and ultimately enhance the quality of their healthcare.

Medicohealth platform will integrate solutions that are serving mobile Health (mHealth) as well as Telemedicine market. Safe storage with secure access management of individual health information will be enabled with a perspective of full integration of Electronic Health Records (EHR) on the platform.