HIT Infrastructure June 26, 2020
Samantha McGrail

COVID-19, increased access to care, industry consolidation, and other factors are guiding the healthcare industry’s technology investments, including in artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies.

A new study showed that technological advancements in healthcare, including service robots, artificial intelligence, and digital communication, has the ability to improve performances of the industry as a whole and can be used in response to the challenges facing the industry in the future, such as COVID-19 outbreaks.

The drivers of the technological change include increasing access to healthcare and reducing cost of care, consolidating and coordinating healthcare delivery, facilitating chronic disease prevention and management, and responding to demographic trends, researchers said.

The study leveraged interviews from hospitals and home agency administrators, union...

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Topics: AI (Artificial Intelligence), Healthcare System, Public Health / COVID, Robotics/RPA, Survey / Study, Technology, Trends
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