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How UCSF Applies An Evidence-Based Approach To Digital Health Innovation
For healthcare innovations to be truly transformative, designers need input from clinicians that will actually use the tech and outside partners to put patients at the center of it all. In the video below, Dr. Aenor Sawyer, Chief Health Innovation Officer and Director of UCSF’s Skeletal Health Service in the below video outlining UCSF’s approach, explains how the system does just that.
Sawyer said that in addition to having people on the front lines of healthcare involved in innovations, the system also partners with outside entities for other capabilities.
For healthcare innovations to be truly transformative, designers need input from clinicians that will actually use the tech and outside partners to put patients at the center of it all. In the video below, Dr. Aenor Sawyer, Chief Health Innovation Officer and Director of UCSF’s Skeletal Health Service in the below video outlining UCSF’s approach, explains how the system does just that.
And it continues for the entire journey of designing, developing, implementing, monitoring and evaluating a particular tool.
“You have to understand the end-to-end journey around it,” Sawyer said. “For the patient, for the healthcare system, the payer, it’s so important to know what your adjacencies are and how to be compatible with them,” Sawyer said. – HealthcareITNews