Featured Collaboration at HIMSS24 Between MEDITECH, Google, and Mile Bluff Medical Center

I’ve always said that some of the most interesting things in health IT are when someone brings together the right mix of technology, partners, and users to do something that they couldn’t possibly do alone.  I sometimes refer to this as health IT needing to put together the right packaging.  The best example of this in our personal lives was when the iPhone was launched.  There wasn’t much that Apple invented itself in the original iPhone, but what they did amazingly well was to package all of the various technologies such that the iPhone has transformed the world. The same is true in health IT.  We have a plethora of amazing technologies, but we need to do more work on how we package them.  That’s why I was so intrigued by this session at HIMSS 2024 titled Radical Collaboration: MEDITECH, Google, and the Intelligent EHR.  It featured Helen Waters, Executive VP & COO at MEDITECH, Aashima Gupta, Global Director, Healthcare Strategy and Solutions at Google Cloud, and Dara Bartels, CEO at Mile Bluff Medical Center. As Waters said on stage, “Progress will not happen in silos.  We need to collaborate to make the most impact.  That’s why you see an EHR, a tech company, and a health system on stage.”  Here’s a summary of some of the key insights from the session along with some commentary. It was great to have all three of these healthcare executives on stage to talk about the collaboration.  I particularly liked that it...
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