Skip to main content
Contact us
Contact us
six benefits of healthcare industry software
Article

Improving the Efficiency and Quality of Care with Healthcare Industry Software

Innovations in medical treatment are always on the minds of practitioners and administrators. Healthcare industry software is one area where you want to stay on the cutting edge of new developments, although this often gets forgotten in the rush to embrace new equipment and procedures. Here are six benefits of health industry software that improve patient care, increase efficiency, and may also help your organisation save money.

Six Benefits of Health Industry Software

1. Better Outcomes in Providing Patient Service

Electronic medical records were a huge improvement on old-fashioned paper charts. They made copying and faxing records obsolete, allowing patient information to be transferred between providers with the click of a mouse. There was, thankfully, no more waiting in Accident and Emergency for someone’s cardiologist or oncologist to send vital information in order to formulate a treatment plan.

Customised healthcare industry software is a step up from that innovation. Both you and your patients can have medical records available in seconds, whether in the doctor’s surgery room or on the patient’s mobile phone when travelling abroad. This saves time and resources on the practitioner’s end and results in better patient outcomes, thereby improving service satisfaction.

Case study
4x Acceleration of Delivery for Healthcare Application
fleming

2. Cost Optimisation and Improved Efficiency

Health industry software isn’t only about medical records for patients. Using custom application development services to digitalise your facility — whether you’re a small practice or a large hospital — improves workflow efficiency and saves money.

Ways that customised healthcare software can transform your processes include:

  1. Simplifying inventory tracking
  2. Notifying you about medication stock and expiry
  3. Monitoring physician and support staff time
  4. Tracking diagnostics and lab results
  5. Assisting with appointment reminders, scheduling, and check-in

When you digitalise these elements, you eliminate waste and allocate resources more appropriately. This lets you reduce operational costs or channel funding where it’s needed.

3. Automation to Reduce Errors and Refocus Manpower

The manual collection of data and analysing of test results eat up time that could be better allocated elsewhere, primarily to patient care. When you utilise tailor-made healthcare software to automate things like lab testing and result analysis, you can devote more time to one-on-one patient interaction and other aspects of your practice. You can place staff where they are truly needed and cut redundancies, burned-out employees, and other undesirable manpower issues.

Reducing human tasks involving numbers and data also cuts errors significantly. When you decrease medical errors, you automatically improve patient outcomes. You also reduce the potential for morbidity and mortality complications that can result in serious legal and financial repercussions for your institution.

six benefits of healthcare industry software

4. Opportunities for Data Analysis

Your healthcare facility no doubt takes in massive amounts of data over the course of every day. You may not even realise how much data you have at your fingertips. Don’t let that information go to waste by allowing it to sit unused.

Customised healthcare software development and data science solutions can help your practice or institution create opportunities to better use your data based on your unique needs. Rather than making blind decisions about staffing, treatment protocols, and workflow processes, you can make data-driven decisions with confidence.

Data-based medical practice offers multiple benefits:

  1. Improved cost efficiency and savings
  2. More personalised patient care
  3. Treatments focused on preventive vs reactive care
  4. Greater staff and patient satisfaction

Your organisation can stay at the forefront of healthcare, knowing that you have the data to back your agenda.

5. Central Storage Hub for Seamless Data Access

When you build customised healthcare software, ideally, you want to create a central storage hub for data. That way, you get seamless access to the information you need, which improves patient treatment, outcomes, and satisfaction. Staff won’t waste time with administrative tasks that can be automated, and they’ll have instant access to records for scheduling, follow-ups, and other important processes without having to hunt down information in a time-consuming and wasteful manner.

When you streamline patient data using a central storage hub, you not only reduce staff and patient frustration; you permit better time management that frees up employees to give more to patients or other more valuable components of healthcare delivery. You stay on schedule instead of constantly running behind, which has a domino effect across all related departments in the institution.

For example, imagine a patient coming in for a diagnostic procedure before surgery. When staff quickly see through the online record that the patient previously had a negative reaction to a substance used in the procedure at another office, they can alert the physician. The physician can then immediately choose an alternative test that won’t provoke problems. The patient doesn’t have to suffer an adverse reaction, the clinic doesn’t get backed up for subsequent appointments, and medical imaging or other departments participating in the test aren’t left waiting whilst the patient recovers. The referring surgeon gets the proper results they need without having to re-do the test or perhaps wonder if the patient’s adverse event affected the results.

6. Protection of Sensitive Patient Information

Protecting your patients’ sensitive information from undesirable third-party viewing is legally and ethically essential. This includes medical information, financial data and elements of personal identification.

Customised healthcare software development first anticipates risk to patient data. Then — if you collaborate with the right software developer — you can safely and securely organise and store it using blockchain technology and data tokenisation.

six benefits of healthcare industry software

Partner With ELEKS for Your Healthcare Software Development

Partnering with ELEKS for customised healthcare software development brings you all of the benefits listed above and more. Improve patient service, optimise costs, increase workflow efficiency, manage data, and safeguard sensitive information with software built for your organisation’s unique needs.

ELEKS offers healthcare software development services in a variety of areas. Our team is experienced with global health information privacy standards, healthcare standards, and compliance certifications. We are confident our expertise can help your institution improve its efficiency and quality of service.

Have a question?
Speak to an expert
app development
Explore our application development services
Explore our application development services
Contact Us
  • We need your name to know how to address you
  • We need your phone number to reach you with response to your request
  • We need your country of business to know from what office to contact you
  • We need your company name to know your background and how we can use our experience to help you
  • Accepted file types: jpg, gif, png, pdf, doc, docx, xls, xlsx, ppt, pptx, Max. file size: 10 MB.
(jpg, gif, png, pdf, doc, docx, xls, xlsx, ppt, pptx, PNG)

We will add your info to our CRM for contacting you regarding your request. For more info please consult our privacy policy
  • This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.

What our customers say

The breadth of knowledge and understanding that ELEKS has within its walls allows us to leverage that expertise to make superior deliverables for our customers. When you work with ELEKS, you are working with the top 1% of the aptitude and engineering excellence of the whole country.

sam fleming
Sam Fleming
President, Fleming-AOD

Right from the start, we really liked ELEKS’ commitment and engagement. They came to us with their best people to try to understand our context, our business idea, and developed the first prototype with us. They were very professional and very customer oriented. I think, without ELEKS it probably would not have been possible to have such a successful product in such a short period of time.

Caroline Aumeran
Caroline Aumeran
Head of Product Development, appygas

ELEKS has been involved in the development of a number of our consumer-facing websites and mobile applications that allow our customers to easily track their shipments, get the information they need as well as stay in touch with us. We’ve appreciated the level of ELEKS’ expertise, responsiveness and attention to details.

samer-min
Samer Awajan
CTO, Aramex