eHealth solutions are strategic for the functioning of the modern healthcare sector. They promote automation, increase efficiency, and improve the quality of patients’ care, making healthcare systems work for the good of healthcare professionals and patients alike.
With the health systems in a scramble to modernize their operations, these solutions remain more critical than ever before.
A recent market.us Media report shows that the eHealth market size will grow from USD 97.4 billion in 2023 to a record USD 393.6 billion presence in 2032. With such a positive forecast, the trend not only fuels hope for health tech but is also deemed a remarkable shift for the healthcare industry, which has witnessed increased technology implementation in recent years.
The report attributes the projected expansion of the eHealth market to key innovations like artificial intelligence (AI), Electronic Health Records (EHR), personalized medicine, and remote patient monitoring that primarily drive efficient workflow automation and service delivery with optimum patient safety.
Technological Transformation with eHealth at its Center
As digital technologies, clinical workflow, social media and internet connections are progressively integrated into present-day patient care, eHealth market expansion could have a positive effect on patient outcomes and offer an all-in-one comprehensive system for the management of patients.
Notably, the transformation goes beyond digitizing and making patients’ records easily retrievable by medical devices for effective healthcare delivery. The solutions also increase the possibility of having reliable medical records, which could allow sharing of patient’s personal data with other practitioners and medical experts to enhance decision-making for the patient’s benefit.
Revolutionizing Patient Care
The continued adoption of eHealth solutions, which includes wearables EHRs, mHealth apps, HISs, Telemedicine, ePrescribing systems, patient portals, and analytics are expected to significantly shape patient care delivery systems and healthcare results.
There are, however, some general barriers to implementation, such as interoperability, which continue to plague the integration process and slow down the process.
Nevertheless, advances in eHealth solutions should be expected to greatly revamp the role of healthcare systems globally through concurrency, extension, workflow optimization, decrease in cost and increased quality of care.
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