Maia Hightower, MD, MPH, MBA, Executive Vice President and Chief Digital Technology Officer at UChicago Medicine joins the podcast to discuss background & current roles, how she is looking at growth in 2023, what makes a healthcare leader successful, and more. Want to network with peers and hear more conversations like this? Apply to be one of our complimentary guest reviewers at our upcoming HIT + Digital Health + RCM Meeting Oct, 3-6 2023 here.
Summary
Dr. Maia Hightower Discusses Healthcare Leadership, Technology, and Equity
Background & Current Roles
Dr. Maia Hightower is the Executive Vice President and Chief Digital Technology Officer at UChicago Medicine. She is a physician, healthcare IT executive, entrepreneur, and health equity advocate. Dr. Hightower sees opportunities in AI and machine learning technology and headwinds in tech debt and traditional models of care delivery.
Growth in 2023
To add value to U Chicago Medicine, Dr. Hightower looks for ways to maintain and exceed expectations in experience and quality while decreasing costs. Her top investment this year is in their infrastructure, which includes cloud computing and automation. By investing in the cloud, U Chicago Medicine has been able to layer on additional use cases such as advanced analytics and data democratization.
Healthcare Leadership Success
Dr. Hightower highlighted her goal of ensuring that digital health equity is a core principle of their transformation. They recently launched a hospital at home program which was designed specifically with low digital literacy and spotty internet connectivity in mind. She believes that a successful healthcare leader should be open-minded, innovative, and empathetic to the needs of their patients and staff.
HIT + Digital Health + RCM Meeting Oct, 3-6 2023
If you want to network with peers and hear more conversations like this, apply to be one of our complimentary guest reviewers at the upcoming HIT + Digital Health + RCM Meeting, taking place October 3-6, 2023.
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This episode aired on 04/24/2023 and can be listened here.
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