eBook: How Healthcare IoT Resilience, Efficiency, and Security Impact Hospitals 

Hospitals are increasingly on a digital transformation journey, building a complete healthcare IoT architecture to support patient care and hospital operations. Patient boards, admissions, scheduling, pharmaceutical distribution, operating rooms — most aspects of a hospital are connected to the network, even down to operational technology like circuit breakers and UPSs. With everything IT-based, the entire hospital is compromised on myriad levels if power or network connectivity is interrupted.

Hospitals are also dealing with personnel shortages, so they must enable ease and efficiency wherever possible to ease the burden on workers. This can impact employee retention and talent attraction as well as patient care and satisfaction, which may affect hospital funding. Network issues can even cause incorrect billing issues, influencing the hospital’s financial bottom line and causing further headaches for patients.

Resiliency, efficiency, and security improvements can protect hospitals from these disruptions and IT plays a pivotal role. Below, we’ve outlined some ways that resilience, efficiency, and security impact overall hospital operations and how IT professionals in healthcare environments can help their hospitals make major strides forward in their digital transformation.