Cultural change can be the hardest part of digital transformation in healthcare. To successfully drive this change, healthcare leaders need to have clarity of purpose, empower their people through ongoing training and education, and adopt more agile ways of working for continuous improvement. Here’s a common fallacy I encounter during discussions on digital transformation. Let’s say you have something analog – for example, a paper patient record – and turn it into an electronic format. If you keep doing everything you used to do on paper, but now digitally, that’s not digital transformation. That’s simply digitizing an existing process. True digital transformation goes a step further: it reimagines what the healthcare experience could be for both patients and providers using digital technologies – which may involve entirely new processes and ways of working. Returning to the paper chart example above, simply digitizing a paper record would miss the opportunity to integrate data from the patient’s electronic health record with other information sources – such as imaging studies, pathology data, genomic analysis, and patient reported data – to generate insights at scale . The impact of integrating information from various digital sources is easily seen at multidisciplinary tumor board meetings, […]
K&X Design and Investment Technology, LLC
Invest The Invisible Impact
K&X Design and Investment Technology, LLC
Invest The Invisible Impact
