Revolution in Healthcare Delivery Underway in the Asia/Pacific region

Tags: asia/pacific, healthcare reforms

Recent developments in eHealth are moving in several key fronts — toward an evidence-based practice of medicine in a connected environment, the digitization of health information for interoperable electronic health records (EHRs), web-based communications solutions for a seamless transfer of patient information from one institution in one region to another in a different region, integration of existing systems for a cost-effective way of implementing eHealth, and increased consumer participation in healthcare.

According to IDC Health Insights, the following are the key drivers of eHealth in the Asia/Pacific region:

• Improving IT and business alignment
  - Ambitious IT transformation plans focus on achieving greater responsiveness in sustainable and market-aligned initiatives
  
• Realizing patient-centric market responsiveness
  - Focus on cost-effective delivery of health services, and increase consumer expectation and participation in healthcare
  
• Achieving seamless operations
  - Evidence-based practice of medicine in a connected environment, the digitization of health information for interoperable EHRs, and web-based communications solutions that provides for a seamless transfer of patient information

At the IDC Health Insights’ first Singapore eHealth roundtable last Wednesday, the topic of eHealth transformation was high on the agenda for the delegates. Analysts from IDC Health Insights Asia/Pacific actively engaged with invited C-level healthcare IT practitioners in in-depth discussions relating to strengthening business-IT alignment strategies and shared anecdotal best practices in ICT implementations for the Asia/Pacific healthcare sector.

We will be publishing the event's proceedings in our IDC Health Insights report series, the “Asia/Pacific Healthcare Country Profile Service” soon.  If you would like to get hold of this report, please contact me at geraldwang@idc.com or my colleague Janet Chiew at jchiew@idc.com.

An overview of the Asia/Pacific healthcare landscape