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People become physicians out of the commitment to spend time with patients and not with computers. Their aim is to cure lives and stay connected with patients, but that ideology is getting lost as more and more non-healthcare burdens are increasing on them. Care teams are labouring their hours away on Excel sheets, which is not certainly not among the best practices in healthcare.

Isn’t “work smarter, not harder” something we’ve heard on multiple occasions? It may seem just like any other wry motivational poster, but come to think of it, it could also be a good mantra for healthcare- especially when we look forward to a data-driven infrastructure.

In a value-driven world, achieving the triple aim of healthcare is of paramount importance to enhance care continuum. A major component of driving value in care is the patient experience which can be improved with smart strategies to engage patients. Ensuring that patients walk away from the hospital/clinic satisfied and with their needs fulfilled is vital for any given health care provider.

Population health management- a term that is widely used and heard in healthcare, but scarcely understood. Some focus on bringing about better clinical outcomes. Others focus on measuring the outcomes and becoming accountable. Regardless, healthcare organizations across the country are developing and implementing population health initiatives. More and more organizations are looping in health IT to streamline patient care, risk assessment and preventive care.

Not too long ago, I read an article which claimed that “health care businesses acting like Amazon will gain an edge.” It got me thinking how consumer centricity in healthcare if applied to healthcare can open doors for health organizations all over the U.S. to cut down costs, enhance quality and more than anything else, improve the patient experience. The reason being that consumer centricity is simply a well-structured approach towards patient-centric care.

Artificial intelligence – created and introduced as something that could imitate the human brain and its capacity for cognitive thinking. Ever since its inception, AI has widely been used in developing various spheres such as selective defense, space exploration, and lately, intelligent personal assistant like Siri, Google or Alexa. While AI, no matter how powerful, can ever replace physicians, it is slowly making its way into modern healthcare and changing the realm of healthcare as we know it.