We often hear “Health is Wealth” but here “Technology is Wealth”. Healthcare sector has grown with the technological industry. Technological advances help the healthcare industry to deliver better patient care, which is their core concern. In this blog you will learn about the influence of technology on healthcare.
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Healthcare as an industry
Healthcare industry is concerned with diagnosis, treating and prevention of illness. It can also be defined as the efforts made to maintain physical, mental and emotional well being of an individual. Healthcare industry focuses on the health and medical advancements in day to day life. Hospitals, diagnosis centers, pharmacy chains and others fall under this category.
Previously, healthcare was just about meeting the doctor physically. It used to be difficult and many of them would not even get the required treatment. Availability of medicines was a problem too. Even with doctors’ availability, patients could not reach the destination at the necessary time to get medical assistance.
Technological advancements in the industry
With AI(Artificial Intelligence) AR(Augmented Reality), VR (Virtual Reality), Cloud Computing and digital transformation, healthcare has grown. Digital advancements include usage of cloud based solutions and other cloud platforms for the healthcare industry. Not just that, telehealth care is another outcome of this industry. With these, healthcare is provided with cheaper, affordable and effective cloud based solutions. Diagnosis, treatment and prevention is made easy with all these advancements unlike conventional medical industry.
In this blog, you can see how usage of Google Workspace has made its way towards productivity. Google Workspace, formerly called G Suite is a cloud based platform. It is a suite of applications including Corporate Gmail, Google Docs, Google sheets, Google Slides, Google Drive and others to push your workspace to the next level.
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New Healthcare Technology
Google workspace applications will help you to have an organized workspace. This includes easy access to patient access, paperless transactions and reduction in medical errors. Google Docs and Google Docs will help you have a detailed log of all these details. You need not worry if you have not saved your documents, they are automatically saved on the file. These files can be shared as links or even attachments. Anybody with the access should be able to view these files at any point of time and any location. Medical errors can be checked off with the advancements
Improved Patient Care
Patients are now given better care. The medical advancements and health trackers have made it easy for the specialists to have a track of patient healthcare. Educating patients has been made easy with Google Drive as any format of file can be started and shared. An overview of their illness can be given through this.
Google Keep and Google Calendars enables doctors to have a check on the patients with medication and appointments. Consultation can be done either online through Google Meet video conferencing or can be scheduled using Google Calendars.
Improved Experience
With Google Sheets, you can easily and quickly analyze the improvements of the industry. Healthcare with Google Workspace is now safe with at most security. None of the details are used by Google to give you relevant advertisements. Google Workspace gives you seamless access to hover along the related applications. Doctors and specialists can now get on calls via Google Meet Video Conferencing. This is an advancement that was much needed in this field.
Record and Replay
Surgeries are usually recorded in hospitals. These can be sent to the patient’s family in case of requirement. Earlier, they were given in DVD format. Now, they can be sent in the form of links by using Google Meet to record it. Anybody with this link can view it or specific email addresses can be mentioned. Adding to this, you will also be able to take assistance from doctors virtually.
These videos can be shown to the medical students as well. This can be a form of ICT(Information and Communication Technology) for better understanding.
Virtual Communication
Google Meet calls can now be recorded and replayed as and when you want to review it. Google Drive shall save all these calls. They can be sent to other specialists for consultations as well. With Google Chat (One-on-one conversation) and Google Spaces(Group chat), you can discuss the issue. Officials can send links to the chat and a thread can be created to speak about it. An email alert will be sent if you are away and you can respond to it.
Administration Digitization
Administration is made easy with Google Workspace. The domain Administrator has access to the accounts of the organization. Apart from this, they can send up the daily agenda and can circulate to the office. With Google Forms, patient logs can be maintained without any hassle. Gmail helps you to organize the emails based on labels you give them. You can set up pre-written replies to save time and undo in case of errors.
Google Workspace and Google Cloud solutions can help you ease your work atmosphere. This has many advantages and features that can help you have a better experience. Create and collaborate with Google Workspace and expand your business.
