On May 19th, Dr. Shihabuddin will give a presentation on “Standardizing Primary Care Service Line Growth and Clinical Delivery Models” at Becker’s Hospital Review 3rd Annual Health IT + Clinical Leadership + Pharmacy Conference. As part of an ongoing series, Becker’s is talking to healthcare leaders who plan to speak at the conference, which will take place on May 19-21, 2020 in Chicago.
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Question: What initiative are you most excited about today at your healthcare organization? How will it affect the future of healthcare delivery?
Lina Shihabuddin: At RWJBH we are most excited about the implementation of Epic over the next 4 years. We are the largest health care system in NJ with 11 acute care facilities, a children’s hospital and a stand-alone behavioral health facility as well as over 300 ambulatory practices. The implementation of EPIC across the system will help us provide integrated seamless high-quality care to all our patients. As part of the implementation, we will be expanding on our IT innovations to improve communications between providers and patients. We will leverage digital platforms to improve access to our primary care providers. We, at RWJBH, are focused on improving preventative care with the aim to improve the health of our patients, employees, and communities at large.
Q: When it comes to innovation, what are some common pitfalls you see healthcare organizations making?
LS: Given the competition for health care delivery from companies like Amazon and Google, we need to position ourselves to be able to deliver the highest quality care at the lowest possible cost to a vast majority of patients.
Q: What do you see as the most dangerous trend in healthcare right now?
LS: The flooding of the market with “primary care services” by venture capitalists and technology companies may not be all good news for patients and their care. These companies will try to provide the barely acceptable care to the well patients but will probably not be able to deliver appropriate care for the moderately ill and complex medical cases. The big danger is that the more sick patients will be short changed and thus get sicker over time which leads to higher morbidity in these patients thus higher cost of care with poorer outcomes.
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