Cloud technology has made giant leaps especially in the pandemic across industries right from retail to e-commerce to manufacturing. However, in the healthcare sector, the interference of technology has always remained less and has made people blind to overlook the existing pitfalls in the system. Here, the outbreak of Covid-19 has been a great lesson to the mission-critical sector such as healthcare that demands investment in cloud-based technologies to provide quality, accessible and coordinated care to the patients.

Cloud technology will do wonders in healthcare

India’s healthcare system is riddled with archaic processes where multiple departments are having their independent IT systems and databases. Not having a uniform system across departments creates communication challenges amongst the hospital staff causing absolute chaos in the treatment of patients.
No such system exists in the hospitals that can consolidate all the healthcare modules together on a single platform, which calls for the need for a SaaS-based solution. With an integrated solution like SaaS, it eliminates the need for implementing different IT solutions for serving different needs of HIM ( Health Information Management), EMR ( Electronic Medical Records), LIMS, PACS, Pharmacy and e-claim, etc. Implementing SaaS or cloud-based technology induces seamless collaboration that aids healthcare professionals to store, view, and share patient data that comprises past medical history, medications given, lab tests, etc which helps in accurate treatment and prevents the repetition of lab tests.
Narayan Health- one of the largest hospital chains in the country has announced its collaboration with NetApp- a cloud-led data-centric company to modernise its IT systems that will help to optimise storage and bring efficiency in data management across locations.