Throughout the past few decades, we have seen cycles within the healthcare information systems space related to the pressure associated with changing technologies, but that pressure is now greater than ever before.
There is currently an explosion of technology and regulatory changes that are just beginning to impact the industry. The educational topics at this year’s HIMSS conference shed light on some of those new pressures: AI and ML, Digital Health Transformation, Cybersecurity, and Data Science in Healthcare Information, just to name a few. Of course, there are new FDA guidelines on AI, cyber security, and Software as a Medical Device as well.
This has put a new level of pressure on healthcare information systems developers. Today’s products are based on enormous codebases, which have evolved over decades in some cases. This is a difficult starting point to adapt to rapidly changing market forces. The near future will require the integration of new technology and new concepts for decision support while simultaneously protecting systems against penetration.