NUR 514 Emerging Technology Brief Cloud Computing: Access to Care, Patient Safety and Care Quality

NUR 514 Emerging Technology Brief Cloud Computing: Access to Care, Patient Safety and Care Quality

Present-day’s health practice is more patient-centered, data-driven, and value-based. Through cloud computing, health care providers can improve access to care by enabling remote interactions and access to patients (Gao & Sunyaev, 2019).  By fostering collaboration

NUR 514 Emerging Technology Brief

between doctors, departments, and health care organizations, cloud computing enables health care providers to save diagnosis and treatment time since data is quickly accessible. Quick response enhances patient safety. The quality of care also improves when collaboration is high and data accessible when needed to guide diagnosis, treatment, and self-management.

In conclusion, data is an essential component of safe and quality health care and should be secured and shared among the right professionals. Collaboration is essential to optimize patient outcomes. As modern health practice continues to be more data-centered, cloud computing is critical and should be adopted to enable safe data storage and make its management more convenient. It is among the emerging technologies in health care with profound impacts, primarily on issues to do with access, safety, and quality of care.

References

Dang, L. M., Piran, M., Han, D., Min, K., & Moon, H. (2019). A survey on internet of things and cloud computing for healthcare. Electronics, 8(7), 768. https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics8070768

Gao, F., Thiebes, S., & Sunyaev, A. (2018). Rethinking the meaning of cloud computing for health care: A taxonomic perspective and future research directions. Journal of medical Internet research, 20(7), e10041. doi:10.2196/10041