"The Digital Transformation of Healthcare Industry"

The convergence of science and technology in our vibrant digital era has resulted in the growth of innovative digital health devices that allow easy and accurate characterization in health and disease. Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is revolutionizing many sectors but health sector is lagging in adopting ICT. In the manual system, much of the data is difficult to access and is not available in real time. There is lack of coordination between clinical service providers (doctor, nurse, patient and management) and other services such as pharmacy, procurement, laboratory and radiology. Digitization of hospital is vital in providing quality and cost-effective services to patients and improving support services.Although Health IT (HIT) has tremendous potential for improving quality and reducing cost in healthcare, significant challenges need to be overcome to fully realize this potential. In this commentary, we survey the landscape of existing studies on HIT to provide an overview of the current status of HIT research.Health care sector grows tremendously in last few decades. The health care sector has generated huge amounts of data that has huge volume, enormous velocity and vast variety. Also it comes from a variety of new sources as hospitals are now tend to implemented electronic health record (EHR) systems. These sources have strained the existing capabilities of existing conventional relational database management systems. In such scenario, Big data solutions offer to harness these massive, heterogeneous and complex data sets to obtain more meaningful and knowledgeable information.This paper attempts to provide a framework for digitization of hospital operations and services