Healthcare IT Consulting and Strategy

Remote patient monitoring (RPM) is the use of medical devices, healthcare practice management software, hardware integrations, and new technologies such as wearables and smart homes hooked into the medical internet of things (MIoT).
RPM builds quicker feedback loops between patients and providers, reducing the need for time-consuming and expensive emergency services.
As remote patient monitoring tool usage increases, the cost of care drops, and patients receive more efficient and timely medical services.
Virtual care solutions, telehealth and RPM act as vital touchpoints linking patients and providers across an increasingly distributed remote community health network. As healthcare organizations build an end-to-end digital health ecosystem, custom RPM solutions act as bridge points connecting patients in rural and under served communities to more robust home-based treatment options to improve preventative medicine.

Healthcare has always been competitive but the stakes have never been higher. Completing digital transformation is the key to realizing the full potential of person-centered care.
Patient and family-centered care (PFCC) is defined by the AMA or  American Medical Association’s (AMA) Code of Medical Ethics across six sections covering the patient-provider relationship. According to the AMA, patient-centered care emphasizes:
Respect for patient values in defining care decisions.
Role of patients and families as advisors and partners in improving care practices.
Better patient experience and family-centered care is an emerging treatment modality closely connected to integrated and value-based approaches to healthcare. First, let us understand the concepts better.

Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, life science and pharmaceutical manufacturers have rapidly embraced automation to drive digital transformation along every touch point in the pre-clinical and clinical trial processes. Many applications have come up that promise to accelerate drug and vaccine research and development. Digital transformation is fueling innovation at the world’s most successful healthcare, medical, life science, and pharmaceutical enterprises.
Implementing data-driven decision-making to speed up drug discovery and pre-clinical and clinical trials is the obvious choice of many AI-intensive pharmaceutical companies that witnessed the development of the COVID-19 vaccine in just ten months.

In 2022, more than 590 healthcare organizations experienced a data breach at an average cost of $4.35 million per event. Data breaches in 12 healthcare organizations resulted in the loss of one million records, and a further 13 data breaches exposed between 500,000 and one million records. Most data losses were caused by cyber attacks against health insurance plans, with additional attacks coming via business associates, healthcare clearinghouses, and providers.
Healthcare organizations are being targeted daily by international hacking groups to steal valuable personal health record (PHR) data to be sold for profit on the dark web and other illicit marketplaces. In response, insurance providers have mandated that healthcare operators incorporate third-party risk management, robust cyber security protocols, and data governance best practices.
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) was signed into law in 1996 and has become the most significant legislation governing patient privacy and the use, transmission, and storage of personal health information (PHI). Healthcare organizations and third-party vendors are working zealously to deliver HIPAA-compliant software applications to reduce the opportunity for cyber criminals to access organizational data.