As a sector, the need for healthcare to stay agile is acute. Meeting that need, given the challenges of the last few years (COVID, inflation, budgets and legacy equipment) is difficult, especially without the time and resources needed to stay on top of vital transformative trends.
The good news is that there are plenty of ways to make changes to the way your organisation delivers patient care that don’t require costly, several-year projects. Node4’s expertise in analysing requirements and structuring cost effective, agile solutions has resulted in a long, successful history of delivering transformative outcomes for healthcare providers.
We’ve collated a list of several ongoing trends within the sector that, when aligned with the right provider, technology and project vision, can deliver the digital transformation you need.
Modernising data movement and management
Modernised, secure and scalable data movement and management is at the heart of value-based healthcare and a top reform goal.
From empowering the most effective clinical decisions to streamlining operations and enhancing patient privacy, safely accelerating data exchange is a priority.
Implementing a digital health ecosystem
A digital health ecosystem enables diverse data, applications, medical and communications devices, parties and all other technologies to work together seamlessly, in real-time.
Fundamentally, it’s about value creation. The ecosystem unites all the skills, data, insight and technology to deliver better healthcare for a better operational cost, whether that’s via individual patient priorities, overall population health, commercial performance or healthcare equality.
Strengthening your cybersecurity posture
No sector is impervious to cyberattacks, but given the huge amount of confidential patient data that they deal with, it’s no surprise that healthcare organisations are at greater risk.
So, at the ground level, what can be done to mitigate that risk? Most healthcare cybersecurity resiliency projects rightly focus on wholesale transformation and board-led strategic change. That said, healthcare organisations can take advantage of many effective, safe and easy-to-implement cybersecurity quick wins.
Why trust Node4?
Node4 has been supporting healthcare providers with digital transformation since our very early days, and our knowledge of the sector, alongside our passion for cloud-based healthcare IT solutions means we are perfectly placed to help you enhance your patient care.
Take our client Nuffield Health, for example – their website used to be hosted on a managed, physical platform but modernisation was essential to cope with peak-time performance and availability. We devised a Microsoft Azure migration strategy, whilst also rearchitecting and optimising their website to fully enjoy the benefits of Azure’s services, wider ecosystem and infrastructure.
“Needing to resolve this rapidly, we asked Microsoft if they could assist us. Microsoft came back with just one recommendation — Node4. The rest, as they say, is history.”
Dave Ankers, IT Strategy and Delivery Director at Nuffield Health.
It doesn’t stop there – as a result of choosing Node4’s healthcare IT solutions, Benenden Health was able to start its digital transformation journey. The company used to operate on-premise solutions and was inwardly focused; now, it employs a hybrid cloud strategy, allowing adoption of the latest technologies as and when required.
“Thanks to Node4, we are now on the ‘front foot’, rather than being reactive. When the business wants us to move in a different direction, we are able to do it without a challenge.”
Benenden Health Team
How can we help you?
Our knowledge of the healthcare sector alongside our passion for cloud-based IT solutions, means we are perfectly placed to help you enhance your patient care and keep on top of the latest trends.
For instance, as part of our latest research – did you know that 77% of the healthcare providers we spoke to see Artificial Intelligence as vital to clinical decisions, but only 63% are seeing its value in specialist care?
To find out more about how Node4 can help you digitally transform the way you deliver patient care, visit our healthcare hub, filled with in-depth guides, informative whitepapers and useful blogs.
