No sector seems to be immune as cyberattacks continue to proliferate. Healthcare and retail verticals have been the focus areas for hackers during the pandemic period. While hospitals have been burdened with the onslaught of patients and research labs racing to develop vaccines for Covid19, they have become soft targets for cyberattacks. To ensure business continuity, they were [...]
2020 or ‘the year of pandemic’ has been remarkable in terms of the scale and the extent to which change is taking place all around us, across every industry, region, and organization. For many, the change was already in the pipeline, which was simply accelerated due to the unprecedented [...]
The healthcare industry is often bashed for its slow adoption of digital technologies and general apprehension toward embracing IT solutions for delivering care. But as times are changing, patients’ needs are evolving, and the industry is being compelled to let technology make inroads into its landscape. Especially, with the ongoing pandemic, technology [...]
The world might be fighting against a pandemic caused by a novel virus, but that is not the only health-related issue there is. The healthcare institutions still have their patients with chronic diseases such as cancer, diabetes, and heart conditions. They still need to treat those with depleting organs and life-threatening [...]
The healthcare industry is going through a disruptive phase. IoT and IoMT have opened new avenues for the sector which is now focusing on developing its remote patient monitoring and care capabilities. The global IoT healthcare market is expected to reach $188 billion by 2024, growing at a CAGR of 27.6%. Combined with Artificial Intelligence, IoMT devices are making healthcare accessible and affordable to all. [...]
Investments in pharmaceuticals sector have always been a risky affair. The high chances of failures and lower chances of good returns make good reasons for this. If we look at the numbers, as per a report, the R&D returns for twelve large-cap biopharma companies have decreased to 1.9% in [...]
“Technology-driven innovation holds the potential to improve our understanding of patients, enable the delivery of more convenient, individualized care—and create $350 billion to $410 billion in annual value by 2025”, predicts McKinsey. In the past one decade, there has been more than 180% rise in health tech and digital health investments and over [...]
The rising cost of patient care have resulted in the emergence of consumerism in healthcare. Today, patients expect a retail-like experience from their healthcare providers in exchange of the dollar bills they are spending. With this rapidly growing consumerism mindset of patients, the care providers must shift their care-delivery strategy [...]
Healthcare and Lifesciences industry is metamorphosizing into an evolved, digitally-advanced, technology-driven, consumer-centric sector. As against the existing uptightness toward digital adoption, the industry is burgeoning with innovative solutions for delivering enhanced care to the patients. Coming out of its shell and dissolving the silos, healthcare sector is openly and [...]
Speed and quality are the core essentials for serving the healthcare sector effectively. The challenges and undying demands of the sector have led to major inventions and enhancements. Digitization is one of the major breakthroughs that healthcare has witnessed. It implies connecting people and devices, and deriving meaningful inferences [...]
