Transforming Health System Data To Enhance Outcomes

60 percent of healthcare executives say digital transformation is their top driver of growth today. To that end, many large health systems are investing in the cloud, telehealth and home health.

At the heart of this digital transformation is the amount of healthcare data growing at an alarming rate. Healthcare data storage spending is expected to grow from $4.88 billion in 2022 to $5.7 billion in 2023, with growth expected to exceed $10 billion by 2027.

Although healthcare organizations invest heavily in maintaining the medical and patient data they collect and make available, many organizations still struggle to use their data to improve operations and patient outcomes.

Over the past three years, PwC and cloud service providers (CSPs) such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) have helped many leading healthcare organizations build their cloud services from the ground up, integrating complex, diverse patient needs and provider-centric data. : Active. Alter

Many organizations are realizing the potential of the data they hold, from developing value-based care recommendations to advanced imaging models and genomic research to detect abnormalities. But healthcare providers typically don't have the time or resources to build the basic infrastructure needed to use that data.

PwC and AWS help healthcare providers reduce complexity in implementing cloud platforms and improve access to their operational, administrative, clinical and research data, scale and rapidly deploy existing solutions.

Distributed cloud power

PwC recently helped build and expand cloud presence for two healthcare providers, a regional health system and a large specialty cancer care center.

For the regional provider, PwC and AWS developed a cloud data platform that supports the ingestion, transformation and utilization of various medical operations and financial data sources. PwC and Health Systems have developed more than 50 analytics tools for health network staff and physicians focused on people analytics, primary care, medical team operations, and overall operations. The addition of a digital front door has given patients self-service to find doctors, book appointments and more.

The Cloud Foundation has enabled the use of specific cases and data as a platform to develop new focus programs (such as cancer and cardiovascular disease) to address the outpatient and inpatient needs of the most vulnerable segments of the care community.

For a specialized cancer care center, PwC helped refine a cloud strategy to enhance the center's research and analytics capabilities. PwC supports the development and migration of applications to the AWS platform for critical care, pathology, research and clinical trials. PwC and healthcare providers collaborated to redesign parts of existing applications and create new cloud applications to improve patient care and research.

While both organizations have different strategic goals for their cloud platforms, their goals are driven by the same fundamental imperative: accelerate their ability to deliver better, more accurate care and outcomes.

Enable a data-driven, cloud-based future

In healthcare, data is a resource that delivers tangible results. Better data can guide life-saving decisions, accelerate research unimaginable a decade ago, and improve the ability of patients and providers to find and deliver better care.

PwC's Cloud Transformation Framework can help your organization achieve its data goals. From security and efficiency to speed and innovation, our teams are focused on delivering healthcare cloud solutions that meet Personal Health Information (PHI) compliance requirements.

As one health system CIO said, “I wasn't interested in going to the cloud just for records or hosting. It is not an innovation for my organization. I wanted something that made a difference with the view for data analysis. But once I start getting that data and that knowledge, can I turn it into actionable information?"

With extensive healthcare experience, PwC can help clients meet and progress their cloud journeys wherever they are. In practice, this could mean proactive recommendations on staff turnover to avoid care team burnout, using predictive analytics on patient admission rates to support optimal staffing, or developing tools to expand research models on campus using the latest cloud-based learning. Technology.

As patient populations and physician expectations evolve, healthcare organizations need the right tools and expertise from their technology partners and service providers to deliver cost-effective, quality and individualized outcomes.

For more information on cloud healthcare solutions, read PwC.Com - Cloud Transformation for Healthcare.

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