MedCity News May 29, 2024
Deb Muro, CIO of El Camino Health, explained some of the ways her health system is using technology to make nurses’ jobs easier — including software that flags patients who are at risk of adverse outcomes and a tool that helps frontline nurse managers better engage with their staff.
Before she became the CIO of Bay Area-based El Camino Health, Deb Muro was a practicing nurse. She knows firsthand just how stressful and draining the nursing profession can be — which is part of the reason why she believes hospitals should be finding more ways to leverage technology to make these workers’ days easier.
“For our labor force, we want to remove responsibilities that can be automated — because then...