Chief Healthcare Executive March 4, 2025
Leaders from the Memorial Hermann Health System, Penn Medicine and Rady Children’s Health talks about keys to building smart hospitals.
Las Vegas – In one of the first sessions of the HIMSS 2025 Global Health Conference & Exhibition, healthcare leaders talked about the importance of building smart hospitals.
Actually, as the discussion continued Monday, they stressed the need to create smarter hospitals.
When asked to describe a smart hospital, Anna Schoenbaum, vice president of applications and digital health at Penn Medicine, summed up her definition in three words: “Connected, intelligent and adaptive.”
“As healthcare evolves, we need to be able to anticipate how we may deliver care now but also in the future, as well as to understand the clinician...