The digital health space refers to the integration of technology and health care services to improve the overall quality of health care delivery. It encompasses a wide range of innovative and emerging technologies such as wearables, telehealth, artificial intelligence, mobile health, and electronic health records (EHRs). The digital health space offers numerous benefits such as improved patient outcomes, increased access to health care, reduced costs, and improved communication and collaboration between patients and health care providers. For example, patients can now monitor their vital signs such as blood pressure and glucose levels from home using wearable devices and share the data with their doctors in real-time. Telehealth technology allows patients to consult with their health care providers remotely without having to travel to the hospital, making health care more accessible, particularly in remote or rural areas. Artificial intelligence can be used to analyze vast amounts of patient data to identify patterns, predict outcomes, and provide personalized treatment recommendations. Overall, the digital health space is rapidly evolving, and the integration of technology in health

Monday, September 26, 2022

Digital Platforms encouraged to integrate different Software Applications

Market Guide for Digital Health Platform for Healthcare Providers

To keep pace with changing business, clinical and consumer expectations, healthcare provider CIOs are shifting from monolithic IT to a digital health platform (DHP) architecture. CIOs can use this research to identify the capabilities and vendors best suited to their digital transformation journey.

Overview

Key Findings

  • Healthcare providers are shifting from their current monolithic, EHR-centric IT application suite to successfully navigate changing business, clinical and consumer requirements.
  • The digital health platform (DHP) is an architectural approach that delivers unique contextualized digital experiences to a range of users and an application portfolio that is more modular and adaptable to business change.
  • The digital giants and healthcare specialized vendors have launched a range of cloud-first platforms that can liberate and connect siloed application data, provide prebuilt digital business capabilities and include tools to compose new digital experiences for end users.
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Strategic Planning Assumption

By 2024, healthcare providers that have adopted a DHP approach will outpace competition and partners by 80% in the speed of digital transformation and new feature implementation.

Market Definition

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Digital health platform (DHP) technologies enable a new architectural approach to rapidly deploying digital capabilities using modern cloud services. DHP-enabling technologies and services combine three key elements:

  • A healthcare data fabric that provides data connectors and clinically relevant data models that help liberate siloed application data from operational systems
  • A library of prebuilt software components, application modules, or packaged business capabilities (PBCs) that providers can leverage to create new digital experiences and composing applications
  • Composition tools that enable providers to build tailored digital experiences across a broad range of stakeholders


Market Description

DHP technologies and services, when properly deployed, enable healthcare organizations to be more proactive and agile in how they source and implement new business capabilities in support of digital transformation and optimization. The DHP architectural approach represents a major shift in how provider organizations will build and buy applications and digital services. The vendors in the market offer elements enabling the DHP across three layers (see Figure 1).

These DHP-enabling elements include:

  • An integrated data fabric layer that providers use to connect and interface with existing healthcare applications to deliver data and metadata management for the other layers.
  • A packaged business capability layer where applications and data are repurposed using published APIs and/or standards-based interfaces. These PBCs become a library of business functions providers can draw from to orchestrate or compose into new applications. PBCs are provided directly by vendors or through application marketplaces, and can also be obtained from partners or custom developed by providers in-house using tools delivered within the composition layer.
  • A composition layer where providers connect and orchestrate PBCs and data into new digital experiences that have much-improved user interfaces (UIs)/user experiences (UX). Providers create these end-to-end experiences to meet clinical or operational workflow needs and reduce screen time wherever possible. The composition layer includes tools that support low-code development and rapid deployment of new applications.

Cloud Service Providers and EHR Vendors Are Starting to Become More Open

We are seeing healthcare providers increasingly making a shift to cloud. We have seen cloud service providers (CSPs) – such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google and Microsoft – position healthcare-provider-specific cloud software in response to provider’s needs. These healthcare-specific technologies and services include capabilities that increase data liquidity across operational systems and aim to solve one of the industry- defining problems – the limited interoperability and poor usability of core clinical systems of record.

A number of companies featured in this Market Guide have been leaders across other industries outside of healthcare or have delivered clinically focused digital healthcare products and services for some time. These organizations also help providers to navigate regulatory requirements across many global regions (e.g., GE Healthcare, Philips). These established healthcare IT vendors build from a large footprint through products spanning medical devices, imaging solutions, patient monitoring and, more recently, healthcare command centers.

Additionally, we have noted a refreshing change from the tightly controlled and highly monetized integration challenges we have seen with EHR megasuite vendors in the last decade. The strategic partnerships forming between the CSPs and health systems, such as Kaiser Permanente moving IT services to Microsoft Azure, indicate a willingness to be "all in" on public cloud and API-centric.

EHR Megasuite Vendor Aspirations Are Adjusting

EHR megasuite vendors are also starting to use public cloud to deploy new capabilities, although vendor opinions appear to vary on how the digital giants will influence healthcare (see quotes below). One example is Cerner’s shift to embracing cloud and its partnerships with Xealth to develop digital health solutions for clinicians. Also, Allscripts extended its partnership with Microsoft to enable cloud-based health IT solutions. In the next three years, we foresee more increased focus on capabilities outside the core EHR from the EHR vendors as they build on their core competencies of health record capture and data processing.

"Moving forward, I think Cerner will look more like a health platform company and less like an EHR company. As you play out the trend in healthcare, I see Cerner/Oracle very much operating at the health network level, so beyond the enterprise of a single health system. Given the power of the cloud and the work we’re doing, I see Cerner having much more relevance in broader networks and providing nationwide capabilities."






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