CDW Canada Tech Talks

Innovating Patient Care

Episode Summary

In this episode, we discuss technology innovations impacting the way patients are cared for, where they are cared for, and how effective that care ultimately is.

Episode Notes

In this episode, we discuss technology innovations impacting the way patients are cared for, where they are cared for, and how effective that care ultimately is.

• The current state of healthcare. Where are we at and what is currently in flight as far as technology innovation that we are seeing?
• How is innovation in technology changing the way patients interact with their care providers?
• What is happening with technology from the provider side that patients may not be aware of that is changing the way they receive healthcare services?
• The idea of the “home hospital” where patients and especially the elderly can minimize the impact to their daily lives by bringing more services to the home. How are technology empowering healthcare providers to bring more services to the home and why is that so important?
• What types of technology will we see in the next few years that will really focus on improving the effectiveness of our healthcare providers?
• How will tools like natural language processing empower better communication?
• What are our expectations for innovations within AI and high-performance compute and how will that fundamentally change healthcare?
• What does the technology and care gap look like between highly innovative healthcare providers and providers that have struggled to keep pace with technology innovation?
• The innovation centres that CDW uses, and how we use those to help healthcare providers really see what technology innovation can mean to them and their patients?
• Future state of healthcare. What excites you about the future of healthcare?