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INTELLIGENT VERTICAL: HEALTHCARE
PURE STORAGE EXPERT:
IMPROVING PATIENT
OUTCOMES WITH AI AND
ADVANCED ANALYTICS
Across the globe, healthcare providers are facing the
same questions. How do we improve patient care?
With growing populations, how can we help more
people? Christian Putz, Director, Emerging, EMEA,
Pure Storage, asks how this can be achieved especially
with budgets under pressure.
F
inding a solution to these questions
is increasingly reliant on technology.
Now the good news for healthcare
providers in the Middle East is that based
on findings from a recent survey, analysts at
PwC believe that the region is positioned to
be a first-mover when it comes to adopting
technology to improve patient care. like it already has in other consumer focused
sectors like retail and hospitality.
However, the responsibility of addressing
these issues and ensuring that technology
can deliver on these promises, is falling
to the IT department within healthcare
institutions. Once focused solely on ‘keeping
the lights on’, IT has evolved to become a
strategic element within healthcare, much It’s always been the case that by
understanding more about a patient, doctors
can more accurately diagnose an issue.
Now medical professionals can use data
in addition to their patients’ concerns to
help them better understand symptoms.
Everything from medical phone apps to new
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It’s now a team focused on helping to
reduce costs, on making more resources
available for medical professionals and on
making medical innovation a reality within
the organisation.
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THE REGION IS
POSITIONED TO
BE A FIRST-MOVER
WHEN IT COMES
TO ADOPTING
TECHNOLOGY
TO IMPROVE
PATIENT CARE.
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