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This is Gracelyn Keller with the Becker's Healthcare
Podcast, and we are live at the 9th
annual health IT digital health and RCM conference.
I am joined right now by Jay Pulizzi
who is a physician with
Modiphacare.
We talked about that before our recording. It's
an Italian word, and so I'm gonna leave
it to him to explain a little bit
more about what that is and his current
work.
Yeah. Great.
Good morning. Great to be here. Thanks for
having me. Yeah. Like you said, my name
is Jay Pulizzi. I'm a family physician. 23
years doing that, and then about 15 years
doing clinical informatics.
I started a consulting company called Modificare,
which is actually an Italian word for change.
And when you look at the word on
paper,
it looks like modified care, which is sort
of what I'm doing with the second chapter
of my career. Very interested in how we
improve and change the health care system for
the better,
using technology.
I'm working currently with several,
health care organizations
and, health care vendors, actually, and how they
apply,
adopt,
and
use technology
to better take care of patients.
Well, speaking of technology adoption,
AI adoption is exploding in health care. So
in your view, what is the most significant
or promising application of AI right now? And
how is that informing
your innovation strategy?
Yeah. So many ways I think AI is
being applied. I mean, you walk around the
show floor here, and every vendor has something
to do with AI.
I think, for me, most most recently has
been still in this
documentation
space. So the ambient,
AutoScribe,
functionalities.
I've used,
several of these systems most recently.
One of the vendors here at Nabla,
I'm very familiar with the work they're doing.
I think there is such a large
issue with clinician burnout,
and this
seems to be one of the very promising,
you know, tools and ways we can adopt
AI,
to help mitigate that to some extent.
The other thing I'm really excited about
is how we use AI just to manage
and surface
information
that is needed by the clinician at the
right time
to, you know, better take care of a
patient. Data has become such an immense,
I won't say problem, but
it is very challenging
to
to go through all the information that might
be in in a patient's chart
and data that's not necessarily in a chart,
but in other systems
and aggregate that and present it in a
in a meaningful and useful way.
And speaking of AI and data and everything
else, I'm sure you're learning a lot here
at the conference. So I'd love you to
expand on maybe some sessions or some information
that you've learned so far at this conference
that has been helpful and applicable to you.
Yeah. For me, I just came from,
a CMIO
session talking about the future of
that role. You know, I have been in
several chief medical and chief health information officer
roles over the last several years, and even
as I was
in those roles, it was evolving.
So I think
several things are are starting to shift.
You're starting to see,
the CMIO role or the informatics role
become a part of a health care organization's
leadership team,
and I think more often having a seat
at the table,
as they're discussing
bigger issues with strategy,
patient engagement,
and and their clinicians.
It's also shifting from
not just dealing with the EHR anymore.
That's still a big fundamental
component of the work,
but starting to look at in the innovation
space. So things like AI,
but also just how do you
more efficiently
and effectively
take care of of patients,
improve the patient experience,
help things like improve things like access.
Access is such a tremendous problem in health
care today.
So how do you apply some of these,
technologies
in a digital health strategy
to improve access,
improve the quality of care,
and get patients more engaged
with with their health care.
And what is your top piece of advice
for health care leaders as they prepare for
further advancements in technology and greater demands for
care? Yeah. I think, you know, including clinicians,
having
clinicians have a seat at the table is
is is always helpful. I think, you know,
so many times I've seen organizations,
come up with a digital health or a
technology
strategy
and not include,
the stakeholders and the folks that are actually
going to be interacting with patients and using
the technology.
So I think that's a key piece of
advice.
Wonderful. Well, Jay, thank you so much for
joining me today on the Becker's Healthcare Podcast.
Again, we're live at the 9th annual health
IT digital health and RCM conference. No. Thank
you.