Healthcare Innovation June 20, 2022
Executive director of Cloud Innovation Center describes early projects, including one on electronic patient-reported outcomes for cardiothoracic surgery
Last November, UC Davis Health announced that it would launch a Cloud Innovation Center in partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS) with a focus on digital health equity. At a recent AWS conference, Keisuke Nakagawa, M.D., executive director of the new center, described some lessons learned about the challenges and benefits of open innovation in this setting.
The Cloud Innovation Center is being set up to explore difficult issues around providing equitable care to a diverse patient population. This includes issues around remote patient care, discrepancies in technology used for healthcare, transportation, or mental health that could be improved to better serve...