Healthcare IT News January 22, 2025
Bernke Papenburg, program manager of Robotics at Rijnstate Hospital in the Netherlands, previews her HIMSS25 talk, where she will discuss the challenges associated with deploying digital technology in a hospital setting.
Digital technology is prevalent in hospitals, according to Bernke Papenburg, program manager of Robotics at Rijnstate Hospital, a 700-bed teaching facility in the eastern Netherlands.
Papenburg noted that very few procedures or care measures performed in a hospital setting do not require digital technology, from patient records and monitoring to diagnostics and treatment.
Still, she says, there is “regular” digital technology that is standard of care and “new” transformative digital technology that can be employed to stimulate the transformation that is needed in hospital care.
Papenburg...