This Week in Health Tech A researcher's view about healthcare digital strategy and COVID-19 challenges with John Marchica
We welcome John Marchica, CEO, Darwin Research. Darwin Research. Darwin Research provides research and subject matter expertise for health systems, #ACOs, Payers, Home Health, #Pharmaceuticals, and more.
John introduces Darwin Research and then discusses the current coronavirus numbers in Arizona. John indicates that current #research and surveys are tough because the #COVID-19 situation is very fluid and changes from week to week.
Vik agrees that this is why it is very difficult for healthcare executives to plan for current and future times.
Group dives into #Telehealth implementations and it will be important to revisit these implementations because a lot of telehealth implementations are band-aid solutions and not #integration solutions.
Vik provides insight into how health systems can revisit and provide a seamless experience for patients. Vik encourages health systems to build a digital strategy for future-readiness.
John Marchica highlights challenges with #telemedicine especially in rural areas where connectivity and wireless coverage for a clear video visit are not always available.
John talks about a process involved in developing a #vaccine including testing timelines. Seems like as per Dr. Fauchi's recent comments, the vaccine might available late 2020, which would break all-time records for producing a vaccine.
Vik requests if Jimmy can reach out to Dr. Fauchi and see if he can be a guest on This Week in Health Tech?
Vik highlights the process of treating COVID-19 as another service line as seen by Tido's integration and web teams, and how the intake of patients happens starting from #scheduling, #pre-registering, and paying online is being streamlined.
Vik then dives a little more into digital strategy and cloud infrastructure and integrating telehealth, #remotemonitoring devices, #AI, and #machinelearning tools.
Vik responds to John's question about the digital strategy conversation that we have w/ C-Suite leaders of a health system. At the end of day it is about improving patient outcomes.
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