4 Trends that are Changing Healthcare and Life Sciences Snowflake Blog

As the digital revolution transforms the fields of healthcare and life sciences, organizations and individuals stand to gain from new trends that use data in innovative ways to provide better patient outcomes. To leverage these developments, organizations need to embrace a cloud data platform as part of their digital transformation. All four of the following trends require the flexibility, security, and accessibility of the cloud to achieve their full potential. The advent of mobile health data applications, or mHealth, has given patients on-demand access to their health information. Through these apps, patients can view their medical records, communicate with their care team, and manage appointments and billing 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Centralized electronic health record (EHR) systems have enabled self-service patient data management, empowering individuals to better track information about their health.