View From the Top- What Does Sustainable Innovation look like in a Post Pandemic World

<p>View From the Top- What Does Sustainable Innovation look like in a Post Pandemic World</p><p>YouTube Video: <a href="https://youtu.be/5Dqq78g_v5E">https://youtu.be/5Dqq78g_v5E</a></p><p>Originally Published: Jul 30, 2020</p><p>HealthIMPACT Live Summer Forum 7/22/20-7/24/20 by Purpose Events in Partnership with Google</p><p>Over the past months, the world has shuffled staff members, supplies, and budgets to prepare for the urgent task of combatting COVID-19. Questions of balancing budgets have been shifted to the back burner, and all of our innovative energies have focused on the task at hand. Now, we’re looking at a long road ahead of us, with no quick cure in sight, where belts will be significantly tightened. So where does innovation fit in?</p><p>Healthcare systems must re-evaluate all aspects of how they deliver care and make sustainable plans to put cost improvement programs into place throughout all clinical and non-clinical areas. Healthcare systems should plan to reduce back-office costs, including IT, human resources, and revenue cycle. Make no mistake, there IS room for innovation in this new world, but it must be agile, cost-effective, and focus on the impact on patient AND provider experience. Strategic collaboration forms the backbone for post-pandemic innovation. </p><p> </p><p>Aashima Gupta, Director, Global Health Solutions, Google</p><p>Rasu Shrestha, MD, EVP, Chief Strategy and Transformation Officer, Atrium Health</p><p>Chris Waugh, Chief Design and Innovation Officer, Sutter Health</p><p> Shahid Shah, CEO Netspective Media (Moderator)</p>