Innovation Pulse

Mount Sinai has a “little big data group,” LifeBridge and Thomas Jefferson also foster clinical innovation teams, and they all say experimentation, evidence, rigor and risk are needed to succeed.

Tech-savvy hospitals like Mayo, Kaiser and Christiana are always testing, recognizing cybersecurity threats could get scarier, and aiming to change mindsets to focus on infosec as a patient safety issue.

Hospitals spend so much money on EHRs that it makes them veritable tech vendors, whether they like it or not, and that creates the opportunity to deliver a better user experience for clinicians, staff and patients. 

The technologies are enabling early-adopter hospitals to transition from the art of medicine to the science of medicine. 

Thomas Jefferson University Hospital CEO Stephen Klasko is striking some surprising partnerships to advance a bold vision that disrupts care delivery and medical school, as well as the education of those who will be critical a decade from now.

Hear from Shields Health Care Group CIO, Chuck Spurr, as he discusses how to securely handle the challenges around information flowing across multiple systems.

Hear from Charles Webster, MD, President of EHR Workflow, as he discusses the growing prominence of workflow as a topic of focus in healthcare and a driving force in innovative technologies.

Hear from Rebecca Kaul, Chief Innovation Officer at MD Anderson Cancer Center, as she discusses the transformative role of innovation in healthcare and how the industry can learn from disruption applied in other industries.

Commonwealth Care Alliance and Penn Medicine are already putting Amazon Alexa to work in early-stage projects that promise to reshape the patient experience. 

Near-ubiquitous adoption of EHR platforms has created a foundation for innovation. And hospitals including Cedars-Sinai and Adventist are fostering emerging technologies, from cloud-based continuous monitoring to virtual reality for patient engagement.