Smart hospitals need to leverage data analytics

The explosion in the variety, velocity and volume of data, cloud-based virtualization strategies, easily scalable data storage solutions, rise in connectivity bandwidths and the commoditizing of handheld consumers of such information have resulted in making most healthcare IT solutions of the past years look obsolete almost overnight. Healthcare has made new demands on digital applications and the need for harnessing technology enablers like artificial intelligence, secure clouds and edge computing. Secure cloud technologies and standards of inter-communication have made integrations with existing health systems possible though not exactly easy to achieve.