{"id":2025,"date":"2016-11-03T14:15:37","date_gmt":"2016-11-03T21:15:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/industry\/blog\/uncategorized\/digital-transformation-in-health-achieve-triple-aim\/"},"modified":"2023-05-31T16:37:50","modified_gmt":"2023-05-31T23:37:50","slug":"digital-transformation-in-health-achieve-triple-aim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/industry\/blog\/healthcare\/2016\/11\/03\/digital-transformation-in-health-achieve-triple-aim\/","title":{"rendered":"Driving Digital Transformation in Health to Achieve the Triple-Aim"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today, we are excited to participate in the 4th annual US News Healthcare of Tomorrow conference, bringing together leaders from across the health industry and care continuum to share their digital transformation journeys. We believe that the current mobile-first and trusted cloud-first technology innovation waves can empower healthcare leaders to digitally transform care, health promotion, and disease prevention in ways we\u2019ve never before imagined to achieve the triple aim \u2013 better health, a better care experience, both at a lower cost per capita.<\/p>\n

When we say mobile-first, it\u2019s about mobility now being the mobility of the human experience across devices and places, not just a mobile device. When we say trusted cloud-first, it means that computing power is no longer confined to a device but rather now ubiquitously available and almost limitless in power. And accessing that computing power no longer requires mice, keyboards, and workstations that often get in the way of patient care, but rather, an invisible computing fabric now surrounds us everywhere and sensors, wearables, phones, screens, voice, pens, touch, gestures, and even our eye movements are fast becoming our gateways to the cloud.<\/p>\n

Recently, as we looked at the opportunities for our economy to benefit from digital transformation, we found that digitization is occurring unevenly across industries, with large disparities. We also found that the most labor intense industries, like retail and healthcare, are the outlying laggards when it comes to digital transformation. Compared to other industries, both retail and healthcare have underinvested in systems of engagement, systems of insight, and systems of collaboration and community workflow that work alongside their systems of record, such as the EHR in the case of the healthcare industry.<\/p>\n

At my luncheon keynote on \u201cHealthcare in the Digital Age\u201d, I\u2018ll be discussing how to maximally benefit from the wave of digital transformation by asking, “What analog processes exist today in healthcare that, if digitized, would enable us to more quickly achieve better outcomes, with an improved patient experience, at a lower cost?<\/p>\n

We see three functional areas that stand the most to gain from digital transformation:<\/p>\n