Quality Improvement Technology Horizon

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As healthcare evolves rapidly, patient experiences will likely become increasingly efficient, accessible, comfortable, and safe. In the next few years, it is anticipated that new technologies and trends in quality improvement will continue augmenting scheduling and appointment check-ins to eliminate bureaucracy, provide virtual healthcare visits, provide opportunities to share lab reports via patient portals, as well as offer a two-way communication framework with healthcare professionals in between the respective visits (Cooper, 2019). In this way, the technological trends and capabilities would support healthcare organizations to implement continuous electronic monitoring for their patients after treatment has been delivered, enhancing care outcomes and eliminating undesirable outcomes such as oversedation (Vockley, 2017). This would significantly enhance health equity and quality of care through efforts emphasizing cost-effectiveness and patient safety (Cookson et al., 2018).
More specifically, the quality improvement technology horizon is characterized by analytical tools that would change and upgrade how quality improvement is performed. One of the major obstacles to enhancing quality improvement and equity measures in healthcare is the lac...