Jim Livingston, MBA, CTO, University of Utah Health
As healthcare organizations embark on their digital health journeys, there are core enablers that are needed to provide a strong foundation to support a digital health strategy. These enablers include a digital health reference architecture that aligns with your strategy, infrastructure modernization and Cloud strategy, interoperability strategy, and automation strategy. These enablers provide a modern foundation to build upon, provide the ability to abstract the complexity inherent to digital health architectures, ensure digital technologies seamlessly integrate, and provide new capabilities through automation. Consider the following questions as part of our discussion.
- How far along is your organization in developing and implementing a digital health strategy?
- What is your organization’s view on infrastructure as an enabler for digital health? Is infrastructure considered strategic?
- What efforts are underway in your organization to address interoperability as part of your digital health strategy?
- Does your organization have a strategy to support automation beyond IT task or service automation, focusing on business or clinical process automation? How does automation fit into your digital health strategy?
- What frameworks or approaches, such as centers of excellence, are you using to move efforts forward such as Cloud adoption, interoperability, and automation?
- What challenges or barriers are you facing with support for efforts such as Cloud adoption, interoperability, and automation?
- If you are doing business or clinical automation, what types of automation are you implementing, e.g., Robotic Process Automation, Intelligent Automation, Artificial Intelligence for Automation, Hyperautomation?