HealthTech Magazines July 5, 2022
By Deborah Gash, SVP Chief Digital Officer, Saint Luke’s Health System
As a 16-hospital, an integrated health system serving 67 counties in Missouri and Kansas, Saint Luke’s Health System has faced challenges: increased demand for care, higher patient acuity, and critical staffing shortages.
Addressing these challenges was critical to helping us achieve our vision of becoming a digital health system. As part of this, we embarked on a strategic throughput initiative to improve operational efficiency and integrate care progression across the system. We believed that if we could unlock efficiency for patients in the inpatient setting, we would create downstream capacity and improve access for new patients coming in the door.
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