Artificial Intelligence is again front and center as big decision makers and leading voices in health care – including one of Sanford’s own – convene for an annual digital health event.
ViVE, powered by CHIME and HLTH, focuses on the business of transformation in health care. From Feb. 16-19 the conference brought together C-suite executives, senior digital health leaders and buyers, health startups and investors, policymakers, the patient community, and solution providers in Nashville, Tennessee.
Dave Newman, M.D., vice president and chief medical officer for virtual care at Sanford Health and practicing endocrinologist in Fargo, North Dakota, joined a panel focused on solving existing problems in rural America leveraging virtual care.
“I think people have been really in awe of how large of a scale we’re operating virtually,” he said. “When we talked about having almost 80 subspecialties providing care, we talked about going into critical access hospitals, we talked about decreasing transfers.”
Dr. Newman recapped the experience in a video Q&A with Sanford Health News.
“I was joined by several leaders from across the country and we all shared ideas on how we solve workforce shortages, how we increase quality and how we solve other problems in rural America,” Dr. Newman said.
He predicts 2025 will be the year we transition from hype to help.
“There’s been a lot of hype over AI and virtual care, but we’re now figuring out how to operationalize these things,” Dr. Newman said. “So, in 2025, it’s going to bring health care into people’s living rooms. It’s what’s going to be expected for high quality, high value care at Sanford.”
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Posted In Endocrinology, Fargo, Leadership in Health Care, Virtual Care
