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What Challenges the Healthcare
Industry Is Facing?

From data security to cyber risk, high quality
service to tele medicine system, healthcare industry is one among the economic
sectors facing most of the critical challenges in adapting the advanced technologies.
As most of the customer demands for the high quality services, somewhere
healthcare organizations are lacking are behind to reach their requirements.
Moreover if not managed well, it may lead to negative impacts.

Here are some of the major challenges facing
by the healthcare organizations in this modern technology world.

1.    Mobile
Healthcare Service

Most of the people are moving towards the
mobile healthcare service. These services demands for the effective mobile
strategy because most the patients expect healthcare services at their
fingertips. So that healthcare service website should be user friendly and
patients should get instant reply for their queries by the professionals.

2.    Lack
Of Data Security

Healthcare industry has moved from manual
documentation to electronic records. Unique records are created for new patients;
these records can be easily accessed by consultants, vendors and third parties
for effective service. But sometimes this will become a burden due to lack of
data security. This will affect on insurance coverage gaps while enabling the
healthcare companies to transfer risks such as patient privacy, notification,
forensic analysis expenses and many other.  

3.    High
Quality Service

Day by day, customers are expecting high
quality service which they have never been come across. This may be burden for
medical organizations to provide best services as advanced technologies expand
cost of healthcare equipments. So the healthcare industries are tightening
their belts to provide the perfect balanced service with strict regulations,
secured data and less human error liabilities.

4.   
Lack Of Communication

From past few years, medical centers are
handling the electronic records to handle the patient’s details smoothly. As
this industry is adopting the latest trends, there is more lack of
communication and limited space to talk to each other. This restricts the
ability to automate processes and decreasing return on investment for
technology.

5.    Huge
costs for developing the IT Projects

As new technologies entre into the market,
medical organizations need to update with those. This may lead to invents more
costs on IT projects and healthcare professionals need to be updated with the
latest trends. So medical providers should change the way in which they manage
IT projects, including cloud technology and virtualization models.