Burdened by a surge of patients, your ER is beginning to experience a slowdown. Registration clerks and nurses alike are scrambling to get patients registered and seen, but the team just can’t seem to get ahead of the surge. At the same time, one of your patients is at home, experiencing minor chest pains and a slight shortness of breath.
In September 2019, The Shams Group secured its first Atlantic Canadian province and was contracted to implement its Patient Check-in & Registration Kiosk at two main referral facilities within that province. In the year since then, the company has finalized partnerships with two other Maritime provinces and gained contracts to implement nearly three dozen more kiosks across Atlantic Canada.
Although the healthcare sector was one of the sectors expected to benefit most from big data technology, progress has been slow. Big data technology may offer healthcare enterprises a way to use information already at their disposal to drive growth and reduce waste in their operations, but how will those enterprises be connected with the tools, knowledge, and assistance to overcome integration challenges, understand BI technology, and ultimately capitalize on big data?