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Earlier this year, Kim Dalla Torre was named the new global health leader at research and consulting giant Ernst & Young (also known as EY).
Dalla Torre brings a fresh perspective to some of the most pressing challenges in healthcare. She works with health systems, payers and global health organizations to help them achieve financial sustainability, modernize their technology and improve health outcomes.
In this week's HIMSSCast, we interview Dalla Torre to get her views on a variety of topics, including artificial intelligence in healthcare, the shift from "sick care" to "well care," the biggest ROI and adoption gains in telehealth and remote patient monitoring, closing health disparities, and compliance and cybersecurity.
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Talking points:
- Key use cases with today's technology for employing artificial intelligence in healthcare
- Kinds of AI these use cases require
- Shift in healthcare from "sick care" to "well care"
- Technology modernization, the No. 1 spend in the next five years
- Biggest ROI and adoption gains happening with telehealth and remote patient monitoring
- Healthcare C-suite today focuses on health disparities
- EY's work helping improve outcomes for underserved populations
- Protecting patient data in an era of rapid technology transformation
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