| | February 20168UTLOOK Healthcare Tech OpinionIn myTechnological TrendsFirst are mobility and the continued consumer demand for instant and rapid results. My four year old daughter expects all technology to respond to her as easily and rapidly as her Apple iPad does. So we know that the expectation of the consumer will continue to demand faster and more agile response times to requests. Second is availability and proliferation of broadband connectivity to all parts of the globe. With millions of people suddenly able to hook up to the information superhighway, this will drastically change the types of patients that healthcare organizations start to treat. Already it is quickly becoming more common place for a video diagnosis to take place between a physician and patient located in China. Recently, Walnut Hill Medical Center took part in a worldwide cardiology conference with other premier healthcare institutions, in which our world renowned cardiologists tutored other clinicians from across the globe in medicine procedure and clinical best practice. It was just twenty years ago when the first dial-up internet companies were becoming more mainstream and here we are delivering tele cardiology across the globe. Breakthrough TechnologiesTechnology, if applied correctly, is the glue in which healthcare organizations will be able to deliver top quality healthcare. Organizations are quickly turning to tele-robotics in order to enable the clinicians to become more agile and deliver even better healthcare. It is now common place for a hospital to invest in a clinical modality that allows for robotic precision during a complicated surgery with perhaps a patient that has a severe comorbidity, and that clinical robotic modality which allows for a fantastic quality outcome that may have not been achievable if the surgery had been done by human hand. Secondly, organizations who are quick to leverage the cloud and deliver critical clinical applications real-time in an agile manner Sustainable Development for the Healthcare IndustryBy Aaron Miri, CIO, Walnut Hill Medical CenterAaron Miri
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