Healthcare Leaders on Unlocking the Value of Disruption: “Digital Innovation Needs to be a Strategic Priority”

Health systems are feeling the pressure from digital disruptors coming into the market along with the increasing demand to be more consumer-focused, noted one healthcare CIO during a recent healthcare innovation conference.

“We are going to be disrupted by Apple and Amazon, if we don’t change,” Adam Landman, vice president and CIO of Boston-based Brigham and Women's Hospital, said during a panel discussion at the FT Digital Health Summit in New York City last week.

At the same time, however, many forward-thinking healthcare executives see digital technology as a tool that can be leveraged to support value-based care with the aim of better patient outcomes at lower cost.

During the FT Digital Health Summit, sponsored by Financial Times Live, a panel of healthcare industry leaders, including Landman, along with Chet Robson, medical director, clinical programs and quality for Deerfield, Ill.-based Walgreens and Nelia Padilla, global lead, digital health at IQVIA, a company that provides technology solutions and contract research services, discussed the role of digital technology in achieving value-based care as well as the significant barriers to adopting digital solutions and the headway their organizations are making with digital innovation.

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