When it comes to digitizing healthcare organizations, there are two major pitfalls.
If digitization is pursued in the direction of IT and technology, it can lead to difficult implementations that leave clinicians scratching their heads.
On the other hand, going from a use-case perspective can lead to endless pilot plans that never get scaled – what Tobias Silberzahn, partner at McKinsey & Co, calls ‘pilotitus’.
Silberzahn, leader of the HealthTech Network – a global community of more than 1,400 chief executives (CEOs) and founders of health technology.
Silberzahn explains: “Our experience is that digitization is best approached by setting ambitions for where the hospital wants to be in five years time and then architecting the transformation to achieve that. “So how to set up the digital transformation journey of a hospital or hospital chain as a whole? One of the key success factors is thinking about real impact, patient outcomes, and employee satisfaction and capabilities rather than just buying IT or what tools to use. ”
To facilitate this, McKinsey & Co is hosting a forum that aims to bring together senior leaders from both the supply and demand side of hospital digitization to learn from each other.
Innovation Forum, taking place at HIMSS22 European Medical Exhibition and Conferencewill bring together chief hospital information officers (CIOs) and chief digital officers (CDOs) along with Healthtech company leaders to discuss digital transformation of hospitals and hospital chains.
Breaking siloes
“Usually at conferences, there are discreet dashboards where CIOs say what health tech companies should do, but there are no health tech companies on the panel,” says Silberzahn. “Then there are medical technology seminars where medical technology leaders say what the hospital CIO should do, but there is no CIO on the board – so the idea of this session is this brings together senior leaders from both sides towards the common goal of hospital digitization. ”
Caroline Henricson, partner at McKinsey & Co also highlighted the need for clinicians to be involved in the technology transition.
“Many projects have been taken as IT projects that are not necessarily tailored to the needs of clinicians, or at least not fully implemented to the point where they understand and know how to use them,” says Henricson. use all technology. “It is paramount that clinicians stay in the front seat with IT. It all needs to be built for the user and the patient.”
The Innovation Forum will feature pioneers, from the HealthTech Network, specializing in digital surgery, remote patient monitoring, cardiovascular workflows, hospital performance analytics and portals Digital patient information.
“If health technology leaders know where hospitals are in their digital transformation journey and their needs, they can deliver better services, and if CIOs and CDOs know,” Silberzahn said. With a better understanding of what innovators are doing, they can better plan their digital transformation agenda.” .
Bringing together innovators and hospitals also offers potential long-term benefits for future patient care.
Silberzahn concludes: “The digital transformation journey of hospitals will be more successful in the future than in the past. “If we digitize our hospitals well, they will bring higher quality to more patients, reduce surgical errors, reduce hospital-acquired infections and a lot of things that are currently being The problem with hospitals has not been digitized, as well as making them better places for employees to work in a more sustainable way. ”
HealthTech Network Innovation Forum is happening at HIMSS22 European Medical Exhibition and Conference on June 14, 2022.
