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Omar Akar , Regional Vice President , Middle East & Emerging Africa , Pure Storage , speaks to Intelligent Health . tech about how infrastructure and a modern data strategy can help improve patient treatments and productivity among staff .
MODERN INFRASTRUCTURE PROVIDES A SHOT IN THE ARM FOR BETTER MEDICAL CARE
Healthcare data has become fundamental to ensuring that medical teams can improve patient care and treatment . However , managing this unstructured data , which is stored in widely distributed silos and rapidly growing , is an increasing challenge . Legacy technology slows down clinician decisions and leads to longer waiting times for patients to access important information and diagnoses . Hospitals might have dozens of different applications to store , study , analyse and diagnose patients and clinicians need a simple , effective and fast way to navigate this mountain of data .
In addition , healthcare professionals face the challenge of how to secure this private information and protect against the growing threat of cyberattacks . Investing in a modern data strategy is one way for healthcare professionals to improve patient outcomes and treatment .
Improving access to medical information to increase productivity
Clinicians need to have visibility of relevant patient data to inform their decisions as to the optimal care treatment pathway : This means access to all the written data in medical notes
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