Data Revolution in Healthcare and Lifesciences Industry

Episode-of-care payment and comprehensive care payment systems can help providers prevent health problems; avoid the occurrence of acute episodes among individuals who have health conditions; prevent poor outcomes during major acute episodes, such as infections, complications, and hospital readmissions; and reduce the costs of successful treatment. Using cryptography to keep exchanges secure, blockchain provides a decentralised database, or “digital ledger”, of transactions that everyone on the network can see. This network is essentially a chain of computers that must all approve an exchange before it can be verified and recorded. Learn more about the use of Blockchain in healthcare here: Blockchain, Predictive Analytics and Healthcare from Dr. Ruchi Dass It is distributed. Means it is de- centralised. Nobody is an owner. It is public. Everyone can see it. Things that have happened are time stamped, recorded and coded. It is persistent. As far as everyone is pa...

Digitization of health information is soaring, particularly in the areas of electronic health records (EHRs), storage of images, e-prescriptions, patient admissions, registration, and scheduling.
The health industry is adopting new care models such as value-based care to enable more targeted and preventative care.
 Real time and predictive analytics, improved management and security and enhanced decision making through enterprise grade devices empowered by the cloud is helping healthcare enterprises #Reimagine • their internal operations and make it more efficient • their service delivery and improve the quality of patient care • their costs by reducing the cost of ownership. On 17th December, we organized a tweet-a-thon amongst Microsoft India and Industry thought leaders. We tried to highlight the role of technology - specifically cloud computing in Healthcare. Doctors, Providers, Software vendors, HIT experts and KOLs from the industry participat...