Health institutions today face various levels to ensure seamless connectivity of services and devices. You also have to tackle complexity in terms of interoperability, security, compliance, household restrictions and business continuity. In view of the fact that many health facilities are publicly financed all over Europe, organizations can reconcile these challenges in relation to limited budgets and Legacy infrastructure. Here Béatrice Duleba, strategic director of the vertical health system at Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise, examines these hurdles more precisely.
An escalating volume of technologies and devices
Hospitals and health facilities use a number of different medical devices, applications and software, from pagers and nurse call systems to insulin pumps and heart surveillance tools. You use several software platforms for tasks, including data acquisition, electronic patient files or administration from various providers. Each equipment and software platform has its own unique interface, which requires flexibility and quick adjustment of the staff. In addition, the lack of integration between these platforms has an adverse effect on fluidity in the care process in many cases. This challenge is further exacerbated if data must be shared not only within the hospital, but also with the wider health ecosystem. with external parties such as pharmacies, laboratories and nursing homes.
In addition, the introduction of IoT devices in healthcare increases significantly. According to Fortune Business Insights, the global Internet of Things (IoT) on the health market in 2023 was evaluated to $ 139.74 billion and is expected to grow from $ 175.61 billion to $ 822.54 billion to 2032, which corresponds to an impressive CAGR of 21.3%.
IoT helps collect data and combines devices and operating machines to enable data transmission and memory via the Internet. While the advantages of IoT are numerous, network managers presents a further interoperability challenge with regard to the onboarding of IoT devices and integration into other platforms and applications.
Keep the health records and the systems into operation
In the case of so many electronic devices and applications that are used and is an essential goal for cybercriminals with “rich” medical data, security is a constant problem and a major challenge for health service providers. A data leak or a network failure is very annoying for a hospital that directly affects patients and weeks, if not months, to recover. According to Research from Check Point Research (CPR) for January to September 2024, the global weekly number of attacks per organization in the healthcare industry 2,018 reached, which marked an amazing increase of 32 percent compared to the same period of the previous year.
Security and robust business continuity plans are therefore important priorities. However, medical institutions lack the know -how (partly due to the broader due to the lack of security specialists) to deal with the complexity that brings with the securing of the network and its several devices and applications.
Compliance with the regulations
Today, health service providers have to comply with several industry regulations to ensure that the data you generated are completely secure. This includes HDS certification in France or the European MDR regulations that regulate the production and distribution of medical devices in Europe. In recent times, the EU introduced the NIS 2 cyber security directive, which must comply with all critical institutions, including healthcare providers. While all of these regulations serve to strengthen the existing security measures, they also present the IT department challenges to ensure that the correct solutions -and the entire organization are present.
Improvement of patient care through innovative technologies
With the constantly increasing and safe and safe ensuring, the IT teams work for the IT teams for the integration of new technologies and applications to improve medical care. AI is prepared to help companies support more time and resource -efficient. For example, ALE AI already uses in his network management solution to monitor network activity and move IT teams to potential problems such as reduced capacities or potential cyber attacks and at the same time offer a renovation solution.
In particular, the health facilities also seek innovative applications to run more efficiently and relieve the resource deficiency in this sector. For example, voice-controlled patient inquiries could add nurse call systems to difference from inquiries (to be addressed to the nurse) from inquiries that require technical support or catering services.
In addition to the easy solutions for communication and connectivity solutions, our healthcare customers are looking for tailor-made solutions that react to their individual needs and challenges and are integrated into their existing infrastructure and applications so that they can improve their operation and efficiency without creating further technical complexity.
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