How to Avoid the Digital Health Innovation ‘Pilot Graveyard’
Healthcare Innovation December 9, 2024
Baylor Scott & White Health IT exec Chad Jones and Sendero Consulting’s Amy Goad offer some ideas on why so many pilots fail to scale up and how to address the issue
Health systems sometimes develop a syndrome in which they test lots of new ideas and technologies that fail to scale up and end up in the dreaded “pilot graveyard.” Chad Jones, senior vice president of information systems at Texas-based heath system Baylor Scott & White Health, and Amy Goad, managing director at Dallas-based Sendero Consulting, recently sat down with Healthcare Innovation to discuss why this can happen in healthcare systems and some ways to avoid it.
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