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How Virtual Hospitals are Changing the Future of Healthcare

by Tech Geekk writer

Perhaps no other industry has seen quite as much change as the healthcare sector over the past decade or so. The credit for this transformation goes to the evolution of technology, of course, which has and continues to help the healthcare sector in countless ways. Starting from enabling doctors and nurses to monitor patients virtually to enabling healthcare facilities to maintain the extensive medical history for every single patient they treat. These changes have been instrumental in dramatically improving the workings of this sector. Amid all this change, there is one more name that has made quite an impact off late: Virtual hospitals.

No, no, it is not a made-up concept — it is very much a real phenomenon that has already started to become invaluable, especially now as the world struggles against the coronavirus pandemic. So, what are they? Well, virtual hospitals are simply virtual spaces through which doctors and other medical professionals can provide care to patients remotely. Virtual hospitals make use of plenty of novel technologies, including AI-driven medical devices, smart monitors, etc. Now, let us take a look at some of their benefits too.

  • Improved patient satisfaction: Of course, patient satisfaction is among the top goals for any medical and healthcare institution. So, virtual hospitals can help in this regard by ensuring the achievement of efficiency, speed, and quality in the treatment administered to patients. It typically eliminates the need for in-person visits, cuts down waiting times, etc. thus leading to substantially better levels of satisfaction among patients.
  • Streamline hospital workflow: Even a small-scale hospital must deal with a mountain load of tasks and processes every single day. Now, to achieve efficiency, prevent wastage of time, and more, it is imperative to optimize the workflow. Virtual hospitals do just that by assisting in the assignment of patients to doctors and nurses while also monitoring said patients.
  • Cut down care costs: Hospitals were already struggling with the growing costs of providing care and now the situation has been further exacerbated due to COVID-19. Virtual hospitals have been critically useful in this regard, allowing non-critical patients to seek and receive medical attention virtually. This enables hospitals to save countless precious resources, including time, money, beds, equipment, and so much more.

Now, this may seem like a thing of the future, but the truth is that virtual hospitals are here already. For example, in March 2020, Australia’s Armidale Hospital turned to virtual emergency rooms where patients received an app and relevant devices to help monitor their condition and enable them to attend scheduled virtual visits with ease. Such technologies are also being used to help students train as virtual interns. They are monitored by physicians as they learn to examine patients for, let’s say, heart disease via the use of a variety of devices for diagnoses.

So, as you can see, developing custom healthcare software solutions are the way forward for any hospital and healthcare facility that intends to deliver continually impressive levels of care for their patients and also stay ahead of the curve.


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