Digitalisation in Healthcare: Why Choosing the Right Partners and Solutions Matters
The healthcare industry has seen significant changes in recent years, with digitalisation at the forefront of this evolution. Many healthcare organisations recognise the need to improve their online services but often face challenges like disconnected systems and managing different digital tools. Having ready-made digital solutions and working with the right technology partners becomes crucial in this situation.
Many healthcare providers use systems that don’t work well together, leading to slow processes, scattered patient information, and care delays. Ready-made solutions that offer integrated services can be beneficial in these cases. For example, digital care pathways or patient information systems from outside providers can offer straightforward, effective, and reliable solutions that smooth care delivery.
The job of digital health is to add to the conversation individuals have with their trusted health care provider.
Joe Flower
One significant advantage of these ready-made solutions is that they can be quickly implemented and usually come at a lower cost. Organisations don’t need to spend time and money developing their technology, which allows them to focus on what they do best: caring for patients. Some organisations have reported that doctors’ efficiency has improved by 40-90%, while therapists can see up to 14 times more patients thanks to HealthFOX digital services.
Working with technology partners is essential for making this transition successful. These partners provide more than just products; they offer training, ongoing support, and system updates. This collaboration ensures that healthcare organisations can maximise the benefits of HealthFOX system and ecosystem partners and tailor it to their needs. With the proper training through the HealthFOX Academy staff can use the systems effectively, improving both the patient experience and the quality of care.
For instance, digital remote services allow patients to receive care without needing to visit a facility, saving patients and caregivers time. This can be especially valuable in crises when in-person visits are impossible. While the continuum of care in digital systems can be lost, utilising the HealthFOX comprehensive end-to-end solution allows healthcare providers to ensure continuous patient monitoring and care, thereby enhancing the effectiveness of treatments.
However, simply using technology isn’t enough—ongoing development and improvement are vital. Digitalisation offers tremendous opportunities for healthcare but also brings its challenges as organisations must invest in regularly updating their digital services, which requires close collaboration with often more than one technology partner to keep systems current and responsive to changing needs.
To overcome ensure a smooth digital transition organisations must adopt ready-made solutions and collaborate with trusted technology partners to remain competitive and cost effective. Together, with HealthFOX these strategies can create a more efficient, patient-focused, and sustainable healthcare system that benefits providers and their patients as well as payers.
The new health ecosystem is going to allow us to elevate the physician to do what they do best.”
Wainwright Fishburn
