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SubscribeSome care is not going to be able to be delivered virtually, because you can build the slickest algorithm in the world, but if it says you have chest pain, that's going to be a pretty short algorithm. It's gonna say go to your nearest emergency department immediately.
Matt Lambert, HealthNXT
A lot of the manufacturers don't have a process for updating software or technology within the medical device itself. The other challenge is there's just so many. At Cook Children's we have 20,000 medical devices on our network. If you can imagine trying to manage, keep up and ensure that they're all at the right software code levels or even just still in good functioning order. Something of that magnitude is really hard for an organization to manage when you don't have good tools to do that. So pile the security risk on with the fact that there's so many tools or devices out there today, you really kind of create this perfect storm of issues that need to be addressed in healthcare.
Theresa Meadows, Cook Children's
The idea that helping seniors use technology should be altruism is kind of odd, right? First of all, this is a very large population. Second of all, it's obvious even if you didn't realize it before, but the pandemic really showed that we need to keep everybody connected. Seniors need to be able to do things remotely and digitally.
Anne Weiler, AWS
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