For healthcare and life sciences organizations, 2020 began like many other years. They looked to the year ahead and focused on how to best serve their patients, members, and other constituents through their latest innovation. As we now know, nothing about 2020 was ordinary, especially for leaders within these industries.

The role of data in COVID-19 vaccination record keeping Now that the Pfizer vaccine has been approved by the FDA for use in the US, and the Moderna vaccine likely isn’t far behind, we are now on the verge of being able to emerge from the social distancing world that began earlier in 2020. Recent news has talked about distributing a vaccination record card to everyone who gets a COVID-19 vaccine.

For life sciences organizations today, COVID-19 and an increasingly complex regulatory landscape are spurring an urgent need to launch new applications–fast. Yet a number of challenges stand in the way, including complex business processes, concerns about data security and integrity, and even just knowing where to begin on the right tech solution to put in place.

At its core, healthcare organizations revolve around the patient. Like any other business, the healthcare industry is consumer oriented. There are customers to take care of—literally—which is why it’s important to create a great patient experience. However, with COVID-19 putting a lot of pressure on the industry, maintaining a patient-centered approach has become a challenge.

Healthcare organizations like yours are riddled with mountains of data and document streams coming in each day. Whether it’s patient records, claims, denials, remits, or clinician credentials… the list goes on. All these items can quickly create chaos and confusion without proper organization protocols in place to handle this data deluge. When employees are tasked with manually handling inbound document management, there is the potential for a wide array of complications, including.

Medical devices have become increasingly complex as technology evolves, and the sheer number of these devices now being worn or implanted has grown exponentially over the past few years. There are currently over 500,000 different types of smart, connected medical devices in use that have the ability to collect, share, or store private patient data and protected health information (PHI)(1).

This blog was written in partnership with Navdeep Alam, Senior Director, Global Data Warehouse, IQVIA Healthcare is unique. It isn’t defined like other businesses by how much revenue can be generated, but more in terms of achieving positive health outcomes, better value, and saving lives through the rapid development of new treatments and therapies.

When people ask you what EMR means, how many hospitals are in the area, or what’s the best way to understand your patients, you tell them “google it.” But when they ask you how to do something—track your heart rate, book an appointment, pay bills, consult with a doctor online—you say “you know, there’s an app for that.” Because most likely, there is. There’s an app for almost everything these days—and the healthcare industry is no exception.