Dear Reader,
AtroĢmitos is honored to have sponsored the Insightful Discussion “Straight Talk on Tech: Implementing IT in Health Care." We are grateful to the panel that participated in this critical and timely discussion.
It is no longer enough for physicians and other health care providers to only rely on their hard-won clinical expertise and experience in delivering care. As the health care system moves (in some cases gets dragged, pushed, or pulled) towards value-based care, it is apparent that effective data aggregation and analysis (and thus technology) are essential. This means providers cannot engage in meaningful quality of care analytics, population health delivery, and value-based payment without a full informatics suite.
And while no one has “cracked this nut” yet, it is clear that there will be a divide between providers that invest in technology and those that do not. Those who invest will enjoy the benefit of maintaining their inde