HealthLeaders Media May 7, 2019
Mandy Roth

Connected healthcare is not about technology, says a Partners HealthCare expert; changing physicians’ culture, attitudes, and training could diminish burnout and enhance humanity.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

Patients’ needs, not physicians need to come first.

Physicians’ resistance to change creates barriers to delivering healthcare in a new way.

Connected healthcare offers a solution to physician burnout.

Technology can add humanity back into the healthcare equation.

For more than a quarter century, Joseph C. Kvedar, MD, vice president of Connected Health at Partners HealthCare in Boston, has led novel initiatives, testing and piloting new models of healthcare that involve emerging technologies. The organization he helms focuses on connected healthcare, which moves the point of care from the...

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Topics: Health System / Hospital, Patient / Consumer, Physician, Provider, Technology, Telehealth
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