Halamka on long-term planning for innovation
In his blog, Life as a Healthcare CIO, John Halamka, MD, CIO of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, shares his thoughts on the most desirable innovations for healthcare in 2016.
With "CIOs at a challenging crossroads in their careers" due to regulatory burdens, security threats and changing reimbursement models, Halamka says he tries to take the long view and keep an eye on those innovations that will "enhance productivity, and possibly serve as generalizable tools, reducing the number of requests for niche systems."
Drawing from current technology trends in personal lives, Halamka writes that cloud-hosted storage accessible on personal devices, social networking and texting for team communication can and probably should all be transferred into the healthcare setting.
He also writes that patient-generated healthcare data will become increasingy important. Finally, interoperability use cases will "increasingly require closed loop transactions with tighter coupling among organizations."
"Carving out time for innovation with a long-term view is necessary to create true breakthroughs. A dozen short-term sprints will not add up to the marathon of transformation that is only accomplished via a steady pace over time."
Read the entire blog post.
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Editor Beth earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism and master’s in health communication. She has worked in hospital, academic and publishing settings over the past 20 years. Beth joined TriMed in 2005, as editor of CMIO and Clinical Innovation + Technology. When not covering all things related to health IT, she spends time with her husband and three children.