The Future of Smart Hospital Strategy Brings Care to the Home

Wearables, tablets and automation all play an important role in transforming smart hospital strategy, including extending it to the home. Hospitals are becoming more digital and interconnected through smart hospital strategies. Creating a smart hospital environment involves modernizing the patient and clinician journeys by applying technologies such as automation, Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) devices, wearables, tablets, displays and smartphones to transform healthcare and improve productivity.

However, these technologies also need to be secured to protect patient data and hospital infrastructure. Dr. Hon Pak, chief medical officer for Samsung, explains what’s changing in smart hospital strategies, what infrastructure is needed for smart hospital technology, and how healthcare organizations can best implement technology to improve efficiencies and patient care. “People are looking at how to combine technologies that not only collect data, but also produce insights, with clinical and administrative workflows for a very specific business goal,” he says. “Every hospital is in a different place from a business perspective, and so the smart hospital is really more of a broad concept in which organizations try to compete by providing the right set of technologies to make patient experiences better.”