Accelerating digital transformation in healthcare

More and more, digital transformation is a term that eludes easy definition. More and more, digital transformation is a term that eludes easy definition. For the healthcare sector, the meaning can refer to improving clinical decision-making by enabling data-informed decisions rather than intuition-based decisions, or using machine learning to deliver precision medicine or using artificial intelligence to improve detection of diseases, for example. Digital transformation also has a critical role to play in operational decision-making. “There’s a misperception that digital transformation is about technology alone,” said Mandeep Maini, managing director of the Grant Thornton Healthcare Advisory practice. “It’s about connecting all aspects of your business, from patient engagement to supply chain and connecting the clinical and operational functions so that they work together seamlessly to improve both the patient experience as well as  the provider and admin experience, and most importantly improve health outcomes.”