ViVE 2022: How Healthcare Can Maintain Digital Health Success Into 2022

Healthcare IT leaders discuss the future of digital accelerations, workforce challenges and cybersecurity. Healthcare organizations have implemented digital health tools such as telehealth and remote work technologies to adapt to changes brought on by the pandemic. Two years in, healthcare IT leaders are reassessing their technology strategies and looking for ways to maintain the success of these digital transformations into the future.

During a ViVE 2022 session titled “The CIO View in 2022,” moderated by Andy Crowder, senior vice president and chief information and analytics officer at Atrium Health, healthcare IT leaders discussed opportunities and challenges facing healthcare organizations in 2022 in the areas of digital acceleration, staffing and cybersecurity. For many years, the electronic health record has been considered the center of healthcare, but that’s starting to change.

“What we’re finding is that we all need that core technology, and it’s certainly going to sit at the center, but a lot is happening in the patient-facing side and how people engage in their own healthcare,” said Dr. Stephanie Lahr, CIO and chief medical information officer at Monument Health. “We’re really going to have to look at other tools, and probably the most exciting thing is that it feels like those tools are finally ready for prime time. We’re seeing developments in automation and ambient technologies that can really help our clinicians deliver care and our patients be engaged in it.”