From electronic medical records and monitoring devices, to personalized medicine and real-time decision-making, data is critical at every turn within modern healthcare. However, the sheer volume and complexity of healthcare data is posing increasing challenges on medical centers and professionals.
The nursing profession is in crisis. According to McKinsey, over 30% of surveyed nurses said they may leave their current patient care jobs in the next year, and for inpatient nurses it’s higher at 45%. Meanwhile, the average professional tenure of nurses dropped from 3.6 years to 2.8 years between 2020 and 2023. These alarming trends have healthcare systems on red alert. Ninety-four percent of surveyed health system senior executives said the nursing shortage is critical.
One of the largest health insurance providers in the United States uses Unravel to ensure that its business-critical data applications are optimized for performance, reliability, and cost in its development environment—before they go live in production. Data and data-driven statistical analysis have always been at the core of health insurance.
The evolution of healthcare has come a long way since local physicians made house calls and homespun remedies were formulated using items from the kitchen spice rack. Today’s healthcare is driven as much by the promise of emerging technologies centered on data processing and advanced analytics as by developing new and specialized drugs.
By now, most healthcare leaders know that their sector is a top target for ransomware.
