Anosh Ahmed, MD is changing the shape of healthcare through his Heart of Health Clinics. Dr. Ahmed saw the struggles that uninsured, underserved, and refugees throughout Houston and Chicago were having accessing quality healthcare. Dedicated to ensuring equal and equitable medical care for all, Anosh Ahmed made is making it his mission to ensure that this underprivileged demographic can receive
affordable, reliable, and quality care. He will be launching the Heart of Health Clinics across Chicago and Houston.
In addition to his passion for medicine and improving the well-being of the disadvantaged and underrepresented, Anosh Ahmed, MD is also passionate about technology and how it can improve healthcare. In an order to provide his patients with premium-quality, yet affordable care, Dr. Ahmed will be incorporating health information technology (IT) into his Heart of Health Clinics.
Health IT provides numerous opportunities to enhance healthcare. Cutting-edge healthcare technology is crucial in improving the overall experience and reducing the cost of healthcare. Here are just five ways Heart of Health will use technology to improve its patient’s lives.
1. Enhanced Standards of Care
Through the implementation of electronic health records, physicians can better analyze patient data, such as vitals, symptoms, and medical history. More detailed examinations result in a better quality of care, as doctors can provide more accurate diagnoses and recommend better treatment courses.
2. Improved Use of Physicians’ Time
Information technology can be used to automate administrative tasks, such as completing intake forms and inputting test results. By digitizing these repetitive duties, which traditionally require a great deal of time, physicians’ schedules will be more open, allowing them to shift more of their time, energy, and effort where it’s needed most: patient care.
3. Reduced Staffing Costs
Operating a healthcare clinic is extremely labor-intensive and costly. By automating many of the tasks that clinics require, such as the implementation of scheduling apps, can improve staff scheduling and reduce overtime, which in turn, can cut exorbitant staffing costs.
4. Improved Patient Input and Partnership
Chronic conditions, such as diabetes and hypertension, account for a large percentage of healthcare expenditures in the United States. Health IT can help to reduce these costs, as it can allow for greater patient input and collaboration so that patients can actively partake in managing their health. Additionally, data retrieval through information technology can be used to determine effective ways to minimize the expenditures that are related to managing chronic illnesses.
5. Supply Chain Optimization
Until recently, numerous obstacles have made the healthcare industry hesitant to make use of technologies that are intended for supply chain management. Thanks to the development and introduction of more advanced software and analytics tools, inventory tracking and tracing can be fine-tuned, which in turn will eradicate waste and improve the allocation of monetary resources.
Improving the Delivery of Healthcare and Patient Care with Health IT
The above-mentioned are just some of the benefits that information technology can provide for the healthcare industry. Get in touch with Dr. Anosh Ahmed to learn more about what the Heart of Health Clinics is doing to improve the quality of life in your community.
