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with Philips executive Eran Rubens
More connected health devices, hidden pockets of unstructured data and systems that don’t talk to one another – these have all complicated the goals of healthcare CIOs as they look to improve operational and clinical efficiency. Host Dennis de Costa talks to Eran Rubens, Chief Technology Officer for Enterprise Imaging at Philips, about how complexity facing healthcare IT leaders can be addressed through more interoperability and standardization.
Healthcare IT leaders are juggling an array of challenges as healthcare continues its shift to more value-based care models. Their technology landscape is expansive and complex: every department has its own IT system – from emergency services, to imaging, laboratories and patient wards - it is a multi-faceted patchwork of technologies. With the sheer volume of healthcare data a hospital collects every day, they are challenged to make sense of it to support physicians, drive efficiency and deliver improved patient outcomes. The rise of connected medical devices, hidden pockets of unstructured data and a lack of interoperability between systems inhibits their ability to do more with the data they collect.
Anecdotally, healthcare CIOs believe their biggest challenge is using these huge volumes of data to improve the organization and support the delivery of quality care. But the growth of new technologies, alongside existing ones, has created huge complexity in their IT systems. Picture a single patient in an ICU anywhere in this country. During just one hospital stay, that patient has many contact points—from medical devices and imaging modalities to PACS and clinical informatics systems. In emergency and operating rooms, intensive care and step-down units, devices and systems generate volumes of data that are critical to clinical decisions. Ten medical devices are connected to that single patient, and each device is producing data every few seconds or minutes. Now imagine the data generated by millions of patients in healthcare settings across this country; patients served by radiology, cardiology, oncology, and other departments, all connected to multiple devices generating volumes of data. “Healthcare is growing more and more complex,” says Eran Rubens, chief technology officer for enterprise imaging at Philips Healthcare. “We now have new types of data getting generated with increased digitization, such as digital pathology and genomics, generating tremendous amounts of data at astonishing rates.”
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