How can intelligent technology investment strategies help to optimise healthcare institutions?

Healthcare without IT is unthinkable these days, as it plays an increasingly important role in many work processes. This trend is set to continue, and medical equipment and IT will be linked even more closely in the future.

Intelligent technology investment strategies will therefore need to be more holistic to be effective going forward.

Besides the medical technology, you will need to address how the equipment will support your digitalisation strategy and vice versa. If you get this right, it will help you to not only facilitate the connection between your internal IT & the Medical world but also to drive the connectivity between your hospital and the supporting ecosystem around you.

Digitalisation in this sense then will lead to better medical care and new therapies. But it will also enable more cost-effective care delivery.

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Listen first & try to understand before you talk yourself.

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Getting exposed to the US business culture early in my career and encountering leaders who trusted in my abilities & motivation rather than in my formal qualifications or age.

If you had not chosen this career path you would have become an… ?

An aerospace engineer for NASA, or a photographer.

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“Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.” - Peter Drucker