Digital Healthcare: Current Trends, Challenges and Future Perspectives

Healthcare has become a prime global concern with a prompt need for delivering, managing and facilitating fast, reliable and efficient healthcare systems. Recently, the healthcare sector has witnessed a drastic converge towards digitized healthcare owing to the development, involvement, integration and dependency on the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) sector. Consequently, the medical sector is gearing up to become more upgraded, energetic, professional and agile for delivering, supporting and purveying ICT-enabled healthcare services. However, with the changing healthcare scenario particularly after COVID pandemic, there has been a prompt dependency on technology-enhanced healthcare irrespective of the geographical boundaries and time. This paper highlights the current trends in the healthcare sector with an in-depth analysis of global as well as Indian healthcare sector. It focuses on the importance of digital healthcare and its underlying technologies and platforms, entities involved; and applications. It also discusses the key challenges in offering digital healthcare as well as future perspectives.