David Muntz Q&A: The future of healthcare will combine people, processes, and technology

Tue, 7/19/2016 - 4:18pmChad Johnson0 Comments var addthis_config = {ui_click: true,data_track_clickback: true,data_ga_social: true,data_ga_property: "UA-317164-6"}; David Muntz is a leader in the nation's efforts to modernize healthcare. He currently is principal at Muntz and Company and previously was principal deputy at the ONC, CIO at both Baylor Health and Texas Health Resources, and the CIO at GetWellNetwork. We are excited that Mr. Muntz will provide the keynote presentation at Corepoint Connect 2016, our annual user group conference, Oct. 12-14. David was kind enough to answer a few questions about the current state of the industry in the following Q&A, which also touches on some of the important topics he will address during his upcoming keynote presentation. You’ve worked in large health systems, the ONC, and with a health IT vendor working to improve patient and family engagement. Do those very different segments of health IT have any overlap? Or do they operate in very different worlds? Life begins as a patient and family activity. Without the family (the mother in most cases), the child would not survive. At the end of our lives when the patient becomes incapacitated, it’s common to see a return to a patient and family model. And if you think about what happens between those two parts of our lives, healthcare is a patient and family activity for the whole of our lives. In the case of patient and family engagement, both the public and ...
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