Digital and Connected healthcare is all about improving the quality of healthcare and access to healthcare while controlling costs as populations age & grow, life expectancy increases and public expenditure on healthcare is under pressure – these are a few of the main challenges for healthcare organizations across the globe. 

The ‘organization’ of healthcare is different across the globe and healthcare organizations are moving at different speeds, depending on country, legal framework, political agenda, individual organization, role in the healthcare ecosystem and the precise goals of digital transformation within each individual context: from enhancing patient-centricity in hospitals and improving workforce conditions to new ways of care, for instance remote health monitoring by leveraging cloud computing and the IoT. Healthcare providers adopt EHR systems for typical digital transformation purposes in healthcare: enhanced patient care, efficiency improvement, saving time, minimizing (the risk of) errors and improving staff productivity.