Healthcare Informatics January 30, 2018
At some point in the near future, clinical and IT leaders at Stanford Children’s Health will be embarking on a “digital health and innovation retreat” where they will take a close look at some of the up-and-coming health IT innovations that are being developed in Silicon Valley—just a few miles away from the 312-bed hospital in Palo Alto, California—according to Lisa Grisim R.N., vice president and associate CIO, Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford.
A healthcare organization being right in the heart of Silicon Valley—an area where digital innovation and technology disruption are entrenched in the culture—certainly has its benefits. Stanford Children’s Health, for instance, was able to get an early jump on a pilot project with Apple in 2015 around...