Anatomy of a Smart Hospital: Innovations in Patient Care

There’s a perception by some that the healthcare industry lags when it comes to technology, but in fact, there’s a longstanding tradition of innovation in the industry. Hospital-based telemedicine dates to the 1950s, the first electronic health record system emerged in the 1970s and robot-assisted surgery debuted in the 1980s.
Today, technology previously imagined in science fiction is increasingly common in hospitals, whether it’s predictive analytics for clinical decision support or ambient artificial intelligence to process clinical notes. Hospital rooms also are adopting applications…