The Integration of Health Disciplines and Advanced Technology: A Sustainable Approach to Improving the Quality of Healthcare Services

Hospitals and health care institution all over the globe are under pressure to deal with factors such as growing patients’ needs, scarcity of resources and, uneven standard of care. Inadequate integration and continuity of care and poor adoption of technology technologies worsen these effects requiring a more lasting fix. This is where interdisciplinary collaboration and the application of technology provide a promising way of meeting these challenges and enhancing both efficiency and accessibility, as well as effectiveness. This research investigates the Saudi Arabian healthcare system in view of the country’s vision of realization of Vision 2030 to extend the measure of a multiplicity of diverse health disciplines working together with enhanced technology in reformatting and enhancing care supply. The goal of the study therefore was to design and assess a feasible model bringing together health disciplines and IT technologies including EHRs, telemedicine, and predictive analytics to enhance the quality of health care. The proof concept was developed using these conditions and over a 12 month period a mixed methods approach was adopted including systematic literature reviews, pilot studies and full scale implementation of the tei with ten healthcare organisations. Sources of data comprised both quantitative measures of health status, costs, and productivity and qualitative data obtained from interviews with staff and patients. Outcomes obtained were a 39.1 per cent decrease in mortality rates; a 46.2 per cent reduction in readmission rates; and a 17.8 per cent increase in diagnostic sensitivity. Measurable outcomes for this domain included a 60.6% decrease in medication errors and improved alert response time, at 57.7%. The economic analysis showed that the expenses necessary for caring decreased for 15%, and the indication of rate of earnings for 24.7%. We recorded an enhanced staff turnover by 10.8% and 263.4% for technology implementation like EHR. It is stated that the multi-professional and technology enhanced healthcare approach greatly improves the central health care concern of outcomes of care, economy and sustainability. This model can be scaled to resource constrained settings to showcase that enhanced patient care and better systems are possible, through collaboration across sectors and by taking advantage of technology.