Healthcare will be more virtual, automated and consumer-friendly five years from now, while digital integration will feel seamless, several health system digital leaders told Becker’s.
“Just as we no longer talk about electronic commerce as different from business generally, we are at the point where digital health is simply health,” said Daniel Barchi, executive vice president and CIO of Chicago-based CommonSpirit Health.
At CommonSpirit, which has 143 hospitals across 22 states, that digital shift includes using the Catholic health system’s scale, mission and digital population health tools to “aggregate data and help clinicians and patients partner to manage their wellness,” Barchi said.
“In five years, we will have adopted, integrated and implemented several different technologies at Jefferson,” predicted Nassar Nizami, executive vice president and chief information and digital officer of Philadelphia-based Thomas Jefferson University and Jefferson Health. “Digital health encompasses a cultural transformation of traditional healthcare.” Read more.
