CIOs Tackle Barriers To Innovation, Telehealth Integration, Analytics And More

Four health IT leaders from across the country discuss lessons learned during the pandemic in the latest installment in our feature series, offering their perspectives on some "long-term 'change the game' strategies" developed over the past year.

Structural, non-technical barriers to innovation are a big reason why technical innovation is so challenging. The need to quickly integrate telemedicine, and an opportunity for a better patient care model, caused a digital transformation roadmap to get accelerated. The COVID-19 crisis put a laser focus on how apparent it is that data and advanced analytics can be powerful weapons in the fight against pandemics.