The Big Consult: Clinicians Who Entered Digital IT Speak About the Differences

We’ve been through several waves of health IT adoption, and are witnessing a new phase of growth (temporarily interrupted by the rise in interest rates) with exciting new ventures. All these digital health companies bring in expert doctors, nurses, or other clinical staff to help them design products and interact with potential customers. These highly experienced people, with one foot firmly in the world of medicine and the other in IT, form bridges between technologists and the clinicians still out in the field. For this four-part series, I interviewed more than a dozen clinicians who work in IT now, asking them in online meetings or over email to offer advice to their peers in clinical settings. They described how the IT world is different from clinical settings, and—more practically—what criteria their potential clients should use when evaluating IT products and services. Working at a Digital IT Company is Different It’s a big learning experience for a doctor or nurse to move from a clinical setting to a digital computing environment where programmers are developing apps, services, or devices for use in health care. Dr. Omar Manejwala, chief medical officer at DarioHealth, describes the main job of the clinician at a digital IT company as bringing together two cultures. “There’s one culture of arrogance in technology and a different culture of arrogance in medicine,” he says. “The CMO’s role is in part to bridge those two groups ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - Category: Information Technology Authors: Tags: Clinical Health IT Company Hospital - Health System Aaron Neinstein Arcadia AvaSure Cindy Gaines Clever Care Health Plan DarioHealth Equality Health Healthcare IT Development Healthcare IT Solutions John Showalter Kate Behan Kh Source Type: blogs