Clinical care is complex. Teams must not only deliver high-quality care at every patient visit, but also juggle electronic health records (EHRs), manage some level of data analytics, respond to financial pressures, and much more.
Yet, even as healthcare organizations layer on new technologies to streamline operations, errors still occur that impact the patient experience — many tied to a lack of digital visualization.
After all, if you can’t see the roadblocks in your way, how can you effectively clear them?
Consolidating the right tools in an all-in-one platform gives organizations meaningful visibility into patient care and operational performance. And more visibility brings the ability to act with clarity and deliver care more efficiently.
Digital visualization involves implementing the right technologies in the right places to enable teams to gain greater visibility into:
Seeing into these areas in real time, clinical teams can make more informed decisions, collaborate with other providers more effectively, and respond to challenges in a timely manner. According to a 2024 study, this kind of visibility can impact nearly all areas of a healthcare organization: “Digital platforms, real-time tracking systems and technological integrations substantially enhance efficiency, transparency and responsiveness.”
Just as digital visualization offers countless benefits, the lack of it can put patient safety and care at risk. During the COVID-19 pandemic, for example, poor supply chain visibility led to massive shortages of critical personal protective equipment.
With nearly a quarter (22.7%) of adverse events in healthcare being preventable, optimizing operations with better visualization isn’t just helpful, it’s imperative.
To solve operational and patient-related issues, many healthcare organizations simply layer one technology on top of another. While this might address problems in the short term, it adds complexity to providers’ and staff workloads — which are already maxed out. In fact, physicians today spend an average of four-and-a-half hours per day just filling out EHR data, much of which isn’t immediately relevant to the clinical experience.
An advanced platform consolidates disparate technologies into a central resource, providing digital visualization across nearly all areas of an organization’s work. The right platform offers:
Things like specimen tracking, organized data insights, and intuitive dashboards provide immersive digital visualization in critical areas of clinical care.
When they’re accessible through one centralized platform, the benefits are even greater: Teams get a single resource for visibility and automation, thereby reducing the administrative burden required to manually juggle multiple systems. They can also use biological specimen tracking and other solutions to ensure patients get the timely, high-quality care they deserve.
One major tool for gaining visibility and improving patient care? Artificial intelligence (AI).
A Vention report notes that by the end of 2025, 90% of hospitals in the U.S. will be using AI for things like patient monitoring and early diagnosis. The American Medical Association also reports that 57% of physicians see AI’s potential for reducing their administrative burden.
AI is poised to make everything from operational performance to data reporting to specimen tracking more effective — which is why advanced platforms like Pycube’s solution come with embedded AI assistants.
Pycube’s AI tools digitize inventory management and provide instant reports with real-time data. They give teams the insights needed to triage asset and equipment errors, equipping teams with the digital visualization needed to make informed decisions about asset maintenance.
With a top-tier platform like Pycube’s comprehensive solution, clinical teams gain clarity at both the big-picture and granular levels. They can pinpoint how missing specimens impact care outcomes and financial performance, where patients are getting lost in inefficient workflows, and how administrative burdens are weighing down providers.
The unparalleled visibility that the Pycube platform offers boosts teams’ abilities to do their best work. Reach out today to see what the platform can do for your healthcare organization.