So we had decided to announce the official death of the old incomplete healthcare system (read Healing the Dead) and will start working on a new project. We need to:

1. Have a look from the top most view to know what are the emerging requirements for healthcare systems worldwide


2. Prioritize and filter these requirements as per the local market's demands


3. Define our project scope accordingly

Professor Bryan Bergeron, from HST Division in Harvard Medical School & MIT, USA presented the technology requirements for the healthcare in his presentation “Emerging Information Technologies in Healthcare” that he presented in the Saudi e-Health Conference in Riyadh, May 2006. Here is the outline of his presentation:

Interests in healthcare systems have dramatically evolved during the past two decades. Interests on mid 90’s were mainly:

• Practice Management SW
• Voice Recognition HW
• Personal Digital Assistants
• High-Speed Internet Connections
• eMail
• Wireless Networks (WiFi)
• Digital Cameras
• Online CME (Continuing Medical Education)
• Online Medical Databases
• Scheduling Software
• Medical Errors
• Digital Records
• Process Modeling
• Web Search Engines
• Personal Computing
• Digital Imaging

While on 2006 interests have grown to include:

• RHIOs (Regional Health Information Organization)
• P4P
• CRM
• HER
• PACS (Picture Archive Communication System)
• Ubiquitous Computing
• Asynchronous Consults

System’s stakeholders have also increased to include more people from different departments each with his own list of interest:

Patient Interests:

• CRM
• Syndication
• Disease Portals
• Remote Consults
• Personalized Medicine
• Interactive Scheduling
• Home Monitoring
• Patient Education

Departments

• PACS
• Data Marts
• Telemedicine
• Specialty Procedures
• Ubiquitous Computing
• Surgical Planning

Business Managers

• ERP
• AR/AP
• Payroll
• Asset Tracking
• Supply Chain Management
• Benchmarking

Physicians

• CPOE (Computer Practitioner Order Entry)
• Syndication
• Surgical Robots
• Physician Scheduling
• LMS (Learning Management Systems), Simulators & Simulations
• Automated Transcription
• Smart Medical Systems
• Transaction Monitoring
• Visualization
  ICD10

Research

• Data Management
• Clinical Database Integration
• Data Visualization
• Grid Computing

Nurse

• Coding
• Patient Tracking
• Remote Patient Monitoring
• LMS/Simulators/Simulations
• Robotic Pharmacy Delivery
• Syndication

Admin

• CRM
• Asset Tracking
• Business Intelligence
• Operations Management
• Performance Management
• Knowledge Management
• Telecommunications
• P4P (DEA/RVU)

Pharmacy

• Automation
• Error Reduction
• Robotic Delivery
• Barcode/RFID Tracking
• E-Prescribing