COVID-19 clearly garnered all of the headlines in 2020 but that didn’t stop the rising tide of chronic conditions and the highest mortality rate attributions. It is never easy to report on leading causes of disease and death and while the entire world has its eyes on the current pandemic, the seven most chronic diseases continue to deliver devasting impact by orders of magnitude in comparison to COVID-19.

From all of us at Noteworth, we would just like to extend a huge note of gratitude to all of our existing customers as well as all of our potentially new customers and partners reading this blog today.

As 2020 comes to a close, it is time to take stock of ongoing market dynamics (i.e. pandemic requirements), growth, patient expectations and the level of digital transformation your healthcare organization has undergone and is prepared to further adopt. Digital Medicine has become table stakes and organizations not already started down this path will find themselves at serious risk in 2021. The time is now to evaluate and put in place technologies that can dramatically improve your patient care journey.

The pandemic has certainly changed everyone’s expectation on how the subject of healthcare should be addressed. On one hand, it has created an entirely new class of pressure on all current systems from small physician collectives to large hospital groups and everything in between. On the other hand, it has opened the door to new technologies that facilitate contactless healthcare and it seems that clinicians and patients alike are really embracing this new paradigm.

We wanted to give you more reasons to come back to https://noteworth.com frequently, so we have revamped and relaunched our website. In addition to the latest Noteworth offerings for all things Digital Medicine, you can now find more resources and timely content to keep you informed and educated on what’s important for you to succeed in your role in improving your patient’s care journey while reducing operating costs and opening new avenues for billing.

The digital healthcare market is extremely hot, and it is not only because of the pandemic. If you are interested in modernizing digital medicine delivery operations by confirming superior clinical outcomes, reducing cost of care and improving patient safety and satisfaction, the Noteworth is the place you should be.

Doctors have been given out prescriptions since the dawn of medicine.  Consider leaching and blood-letting in the dark ages to heroin, opium and aspirin in the 1800s and the smorgasbord of pharmaceuticals and nutraceuticals today and you can only image where the concept of prescriptions will evolve next, especially now being firmly ensconced in the technology age.

Anyone old enough to remember the original Star Trek saw the potential for what technology could eventually do for healthcare the first time the tricorder was used by Dr. McCoy to assess and treat a wounded person. With the dawn of the technology age, the promise of digital healthcare grew but the timing of the reality of that digital healthcare promise is still slow in coming.

Healthcare providers are grappling with the task of scaling digital care delivery operations for ambulatory patients in response to the cost dynamics of effectively treating large populations with limited resources, especially in a post-COVID-19 world. At the heart of this challenge is how to secure, aggregate, analyze and put all of the data necessary to make proactive decisions on patient care and diagnoses.

All too often we are faced with a crisis of expectation when it comes to how fast and how effective digital automation can have an impact on an industry. The reality of existing technology innovations, resource availability, and government regulations usually falls well short of the desire and promise of an ideal state. This is especially true when it comes to the state of healthcare today.