Healthcare IT News February 20, 2019
The school is designed to teach students how to use technology to deliver high-quality care in new and collaborative ways.
Kaiser Permanente announced that it will open a School of Medicine in the summer of 2020, with a strong concentration on using 21st century technology to prepare physicians for healthcare in the digital age.
WHY IT MATTERS
Physician burnout is rampant — and today’s technologies, notably EHRs — are widely cited as being among the chief reasons.
It’s also worth noting, of course, that Epic Systems CEO Judy Faulkner last week at HIMSS19 countered that consensus by telling Healthcare IT News in an interview that recent research shows “there’s not a high correlation between happiness with the EHR and happiness...