Healthcare has been the hardest hit sectors from the Covid-19 pandemic. The ongoing global health crisis has subjected health providers to such unprecedented levels of stress for which the system was not simply designed in the first place.
This was one of those health crises that also put the lives and wellbeing of healthcare providers themselves at risk. However, given the nature of this service, it was simply not possible to turn a blind eye towards the needs of millions of patients.
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Challenges with Legacy Health Systems
As highlighted earlier, the traditional IT infrastructures that were powering most healthcare institutions when this pandemic struck was simply not designed for the needs of this crisis. There are very intricate and multiple dimensions to this sector as a whole.
On the first hand, you need to give doctors, physicians and consultants access to real time information about the patients under their treatment. The state of a patient is constantly changing and Covid-19 patients can exhibit a particularly volatile health condition.
Then come the front line healthcare providers, such as first responders and nurses which provide direct care to patients having all sorts of health issues. These paramedics need a system that keeps them up to date in real time about any changes in the treatment.
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Healthcare – An Interwoven Sector
By its very nature, healthcare is an intricately woven domain in which there needs to be a close coordination between otherwise disparate functions. Take the example of healthcare records of patients with prolonged histories of ailments.
For these patients, a healthcare provider may need to analyze the detailed medical history of a patient to fully assess the existing course of treatment and if any changes to that medication are necessitated.
Then, there is medical insurance that often needs to be in order before any substantial medical treatment can be initiated. For this, the healthcare provider may need instant access to the latest insurance records of an under treatment patient.
So, to deliver the highest quality and timely healthcare, you need all these disparate sources of data and information to work as a cohesive whole. This is only possible with a versatile and instantly scalable technology such as the cloud.
Here are a few factors that make cloud solutions that are offered by cloud providers like dinCloud, a key enabler for the healthcare sector.
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Instantly Scalable Resources
The Covid-19 health crisis exposed a major pain point for even the best healthcare providers out there, scalability. The existing IT infrastructures of most institutions in the health sector could not cope with the sheer scale of the required resources.
In the case of Cloud Service Providers (CSP) like dinCloud, scaling is almost instantaneous. This gives healthcare providers tremendous leverage in crisis like situations such as a global pandemic that we are currently witnessing.
Telemedicine is Secure and Reliable via Cloud
One way or the other, telemedicine is a highly secure means of providing health advice and consultancy. This is a media that’s safe for both medical consultants as well as patients alike. The cloud serves as a reliable and secure medium for telemedicine.
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Medical Records are Centralized and Secure
The cloud can serve as a centralized and secure repository for medical histories of patients and other crucial medical records. A centralized regulator or even patients can be given the means to grant access to their cloud based medical records purely on a need basis.
Fulfill Regulatory Compliance Standards
On many counts, healthcare is perhaps one of the most highly regulated sectors. It is largely due to highly sensitive nature of medical records and related insurance data or the like. The data centers of most healthcare providers struggle to meet regulatory compliance.
However, with leading Cloud Service Providers (CSP) like dinCloud, meeting regulatory compliance standards is no more a challenge. dinCloud’s global data centers meet some of the best international standards for security and privacy of medical records.
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Conclusion
To attain a true digital transformation in healthcare, the cloud can play an instrumental role. Cloud Service Providers like dinCloud make your transition to the cloud all that easier due to best in class Customer Support and a robust cloud architecture.
Contact one of dinCloud’s specialists to better understand our compliance standards and how our cloud solutions can make you a leading healthcare provider in very less time.
