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SubscribeLook at what Google, Facebook or any social media platform does. They’re getting telemetry from all their users interacting with the platform in real time. And their algorithms and models are responding to that. So that precedence already exists. And that compute capability, that's used for good or bad, can be used for good in health systems.
BJ Moore, Providence
ChenMed is revolutionizing and bringing light to some of the darkest, most marginalized and forgotten communities in America. Most people don't realize that in any given city in America today, you have a zip code in which the average life expectancy is 20 to 30 years less than the wealthiest neighborhoods in that exact same city.
Dr Chris Chen, ChenMed
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
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