The Beat Live at ViVE: Community Health: The Challenges and the Opportunities—featuring Scott MacLean
Can we take what we learned from the influx of telehealth during the pandemic into the future to close the gap in health inequality?
Scott MacLean is Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer at MedStar Health, a not-for-profit health system serving Maryland and Washington, DC. He's responsible for the leadership and vision of information services to support clinical research and academic and administrative functions across the system.
On this episode, Scott joins host Dr. Gautam Gulati to discuss how the entire healthcare model is being re-engineered before our very eyes. The pandemic may have started the chain of change, but that was just the beginning.
Scott shares the biggest challenges MedStar Health was facing before the pandemic and how his team found the technical solutions to serve the mass increase in telehealth visits during the COVID crisis.
Listen as they discuss how those innovations became the catalyst for MedStar Health to transform its strategic processes and move the needle on optimization. And learn why he’s working so hard to invest in technology to engage his community with more digital healthcare options to close the divide of health inequity.
Topics Covered
- MedStar Health’s story of teamwork during the pandemic and their current focus on infrastructure
- How MedStar Health adjusted the universal EHR across the enterprise as COVID treatment protocols evolved
- What MedStar is doing to move the needle towards more optimization and clinician usability
- MedStar’s strategy for the future of home-based telehealth and how Scott’s team is using technology to better serve the community
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- Dr. Shlain on Twitter
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- Dr. Shepherd on LinkedIn
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