Becker's Healthcare November 14, 2019
CommonSpirit Health has a foundation in healthcare innovation.
As a merger between Dignity Health and Catholic Health Initiatives, CommonSpirit has a culture of innovation and a history of integrating new ideas into the front lines of patient care.
Here, Senior Vice President and Chief Strategic Innovation Officer Rich Roth describes the health system’s philosophy for testing new ideas and scaling them across the health system’s locations in 21 states, 142 hospitals and beyond.
Q: What does it mean to lead innovation at CommonSpirit?
Rich Roth: I’m a big believer that the word ‘innovation’ means many things to different people. There is so much process innovation where we hear a great idea from teams of nurses, physicians, or other caregivers that...