Using data to drive better outcomes

There are many challenges facing the complex world of healthcare, including the need to reduce clinician burnout to ensure staff retention and quality of care, improve efficiency to reduce costs, waste, duplication and the length of the care pathway, and increase patient satisfaction. Data is the driver for the future. Healthcare providers need easy access to data that can be aggregated, consolidated and turned into insights that support clinical, operational and financial decisions. Modern technology has an important role to play in this scenario, connecting existing systems with open platforms, and specialists with patients, while employing artificial intelligence (AI) to analyse the data and generate actionable insights. This paper discusses the challenges facing today’s healthcare providers and how these can be overcome, as well as some of the ways that GE Healthcare Digital can help connect people, data and existing systems for radiology, cardiology and other specialties within the care delivery network. It describes a world of collaboration without constraints, where data and images can be accessed anywhere and at any time, through a secure IT ecosystem that complies with regulations and promotes uninterrupted clinical workflow and interoperability.