American Hospital Association January 8, 2019
Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and health care leaders can learn a lot from each other, and the gains to patients and health care consumers could be extraordinary, leaders from Stanford Health Care leaders said at a recent AHA meeting.
“There is an opportunity for us to take this digital age as we’re thinking about it and make a real impact on the way that we provide care,” said AHA Board Member David Entwistle, president and CEO of Palo Alto, Calif.-based Stanford Health Care.
Understanding each other’s culture
Stanford Health Care leaders highlighted inherent discrepancies in how the technology industry and health care field operate. For digital technology – their leaders tend to move swiftly, while hospital and health system...