Technology is progressing at a breakneck pace, and this will have impact on the EHR of the further future. As AI and virtual assistants like Alexa and Siri become more accessible and more powerful, they will begin to appear in the health IT fields.
Virtual assistants are also coming online to help with those physician burdens, the aspects of the physician workflow issues that computers can streamline. For patients, the big development is expanding online or smartphone access to your health information and the ability to combine information from different providers and update it automatically.
Experts think EHR vendors will have to look beyond a patch for the problem. Tech giants entering the healthcare space are going to make big waves: Apple, Google and Amazon are all entering the healthcare space. Their presence will pressure EHR vendors to innovate or perish. The large tech giants are capable to invest in R&D and leading edge UX and UI without endangering their bottom lines. This competition might force EHR to make some of the crucial changes that previous sections have mentioned, or it might just increase the monopoly these tech giants have begun to form and change healthcare for the worse. There’s no reliable way to know how it will play out, but big changes are coming