Use of Digital Technology in Hospitals

Use of Digital Technology in Hospitals Student’s Name Institutional Affiliation Introduction The use of digital technology has become one of the major challenges that the healthcare industry is currently facing. The major challenge for the current practices in healthcare is that many digital tools do not connect interoperability (Brook, 2017). The digital systems and devices fail in connecting to enable the exchange of data and interpretation of the shared data. The government is trying to achieve a high-security level, massive data sensitivity, and adaptation to the rapidly changing technological environment in the healthcare system. However, the healthcare system is facing most of the significant challenges in its effort to implement effective information technological problem. The study provided herein targets to solve most of the challenges experienced in the healthcare system through the adaptation of modern technology. This paper, therefore, provides an operational plan for healthcare management using digital technology as the solution for dealing with the problem of data collection and synchronization for increased efficiency in hospital operations. Problem identification The communication and information system of the healthcare facilities is experiencing a major challenge in the adaptation of modern technologies. The system is experiencing major problems in the use of digital systems in data collection, analysis, interpretation, and storage. Most of the healthcare systems use the older techniques in patient attendants and hospital operations which delays the effectiveness and efficiency of service delivery. Transmission and sharing of information within the established systems in the healthcare sector are also challenging the system, requiring immediate action to be taken in solving the problem (Brook, 2017). Development of the technological systems in the healthcare sectors requires a strict balance of the privacy and security requirements which would ensure the improvement of the information technology infrastructure and performance. Adaptation of modern technology in the healthcare sector is becoming mandatory as the system struggle to enhance its service delivery. For instance, the American Medical Association (AMA) reported the increasing need for the physicians to adopt information technology in the existing healthcare system to enhance their services. The new digital tool is likely to influence the healthcare system in different sectors including the mobile health (m-health) app, remote monitoring, telemedicine and telehealth, and wearable like the activity trackers. Such improvements are likely to help the healthcare providers especially the physicians in improving their current practices but not radically changing the whole system. However, Implementation of the technological information changes in the healthcare systems is faced with various challenges as explained herein. Over the year, the healthcare system has been experiencing a growing flood of data. The healthcare data usage is growing at an increasing rate thus becoming difficult to manage through the manual systems. The existing data infrastructures are experiencing strains as a result of the development of digital imaging technologies, electronic medi...