Enabling Modern Healthcare: The Role of IT in Raising Productivity, Improving Outcomes and Supporting Patient-Centric Services

The healthcare industry today faces huge challenges, due to ever increasing demands. Healthcare professionals are under pressure to continually improve the services they offer to care for a growing number of patients - often with inadequate resources. This paper looks at the current trends in healthcare, outlines some of the areas where ICT is being used to provide better healthcare services, and describes Fujitsu's global healthcare experience.