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With new transformative approaches, healthcare technologies will enable and support a healthier and more equitable healthcare system where patients and workers derive critical benefits.
FREMONT, CA: The pandemic brought significant transformational results in new trends in healthcare technologies. The coronavirus dramatically altered the way healthcare is practised. Technology proved crucial to keeping the healthcare industry resilient after encountering several challenges. At the same time, the widespread virtual care delivery adoption with rapid vaccine creation and distribution provided hope for people as the world adjusted to the new normal. All these resulted in new healthcare technology trends, empowering healthcare professionals to push towards offering quality care for all.
Building Trust Amidst Digital Information Overload
The information epidemic, or infodemic, was a major result of the pandemic, with an influx of false or misleading information throughout healthcare's social, digital, and physical environments. This demands providers focus on increasing access to trustworthy, high-quality, evidence-based health content for themselves and their patients. Posing content reflecting patients’ lived experiences and supporting clinicians in providing clear, accurate, and accessible health information builds trust with patients in an information-saturated climate.
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This is also a key strategic component that the digital health space needs to adopt, along with focusing on technology innovation and workflow improvements. Effective and engaging digital health requires the absolute right technology, but a full-fledged experience informs and motivates consumers toward evidence-based action.
Telemedicine: A Fixture of the Healthcare Landscape
During the peak of social distancing and stay-at-home orders, the care delivery model was altered, leading clinicians and health systems to rapidly adopt telehealth and virtual care models and witnessing their benefits to patient care. This resulted in telemedicine proving resilient well past the pandemic and establishing itself as a permanent and prominent fixture in the healthcare environment.
Healthcare providers are expected to strengthen and formalise training to research and promote telehealth best practices to their clinical teams. Specialities like mental health and urgent care make a permanent transition to primarily virtual models. Eventually, telehealth rise will drive more dialogue around access modes as an issue of equity and tech in the coming years. This will significantly impact the future of the medical practice.
Resilience as a Key to Retaining the Nursing Workforce
Resilience has emerged as one of the biggest challenges in nursing since the pandemic and has added stress and anxiety issues for nurses. To combat the nursing shortage and nursing faculty scarcity, healthcare organisations needed to actively foster resiliency and workforce wellbeing. Thus, the post-pandemic period focuses on restoring a safe work environment with adequate personal protective equipment and staffing models based on patients’ acuity and workforce competencies. Especially at a time when nurses are crucial, health systems actively design and deploy virtual technologies into nursing workflows to reduce burnout and build resilience.
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