Bits and Bytes: Episode 17 - IT in Healthcare - Steven McWilliams, CIO, Georgia Hospital Association

#ittrends in #healthcare 🏥🥼

👩🏻‍⚕️ We explore the role technology plays in advancing patient care and serving the medical professionals who administer this care 👨🏻‍⚕️

- Technology's role in managing ongoing health (#wearables, #iot )
- #AI's development in assisting physicians (radiology scans, consultative note-taking)
- Financial funding struggles in healthcare (especially in rural areas) to gain access to the best technologies
- Sophistication of bad actors attempting to gain access to #healthcare #pii records
- The critical role of #EMR plays in the #technology stack
- How vendors get it right (and wrong) when partnering with healthcare technology teams
- #Physicalsafety concerns in healthcare - how technology plays a role
- Technology's role in replacing staff 
- The burden (and additional responsibility) this additional technology places on the IT team

📸: Steven McWilliams, CIO, Georgia Hospital Association 

Michael Alshouse, Senior Solutions Advisor, Byteworks

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