Healthcare IT Today March 26, 2020
Anne Zieger

As the COVID-19 pandemic intensifies, hospitals are struggling valiantly to keep up with the influx of infected patients. Hospital IT departments, meanwhile, are undergoing stresses of their own as they work to support the rapidly escalating needs of clinicians.

One look at these efforts comes courtesy of FierceHealthcare, which spoke with health IT leaders at two major health systems about their efforts to cope with the demands the virus has imposed on their organizations.

One health system who talked with the publication is Geisinger Health Plan, which serves more than 3 million patients in 45 counties in Pennsylvania and southern New Jersey.

Geisinger’s CIO, John Kravitz, said his team was moving at “lightning speed” to keep things moving. “We’ve never...

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