Becker's Healthcare December 3, 2024
Sam Hazen, CEO of Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare, discussed his and HCA’s strategies and approaches to AI and other technologies innovating healthcare in an Oct. 1 episode of 3 Takeaways, a podcast hosted by Lynn Thomas.
Here are three things for ASC leaders and physicians to take away from the podcast:
1. Focus on advances in robotics and diagnostics: HCA claims to perform more robotic-assisted surgeries than any other system in the world, allowing the organization to jumpstart new growth in orthopedics, spine and neuroscience. Leveraging these technologies as much as possible can help centers optimize the time and quality of procedures, and the same is often true in diagnostics.
“On the diagnostic side, testing with computerized CT...