Healthcare IoT CoE Panel – Leveraging IoT to Address Healthcare’s Most Critical Problems
Session Abstract:
IoT devices have tremendous potential to revolutionize the way healthcare is delivered when we understand how to harness their power and operationalize them in clinical settings. As healthcare providers grapple with how to perform better and achieve more with less, they can use IoT to expand functionality and precision of care and alleviate the burden and myriad inefficiencies of the current care delivery structure. A single patient can generate over one million data points during a single hospital stay, but the challenge comes with distilling this information into actionable insights. Listen to experts from across the spectrum of healthcare delivery discuss current best practices, challenges to implementation, and their vision for the future in effectively leveraging these powerful tools.
Speakers:
Catherine (CJ) Robison, BSN, RN, is a Health Innovation Scientist at Oracle Health – Propelled by the belief that data, research and innovative solutions have the power to transform healthcare, CJ Robison has developed a diverse and extensive portfolio of expertise in the medical field. As a registered nurse with a degree in biology, CJ began her career on a medical-surgical floor that specializes in geriatric oncology. Following her time in direct patient care, she served as the Magnet Program Director and Manager of Professional Practice at Sentara Leigh Hospital in Virginia where she was instrumental in improving electronic workflows, running workload-acuity models and quantifying resources required to deliver care. Following this effort, CJ went on to design and manage an array of process improvement initiatives across Sentara. During the early days of the Pandemic, CJ led a region-wide COVID-mask-making initiative, managing over 1,000 volunteers. In three months, over 40,000 masks were delivered to nearly 100 organizations throughout the Hampton Roads region. In her “free” time, CJ enjoys spending time with her three rambunctious children, reading extensively and riding horses.
James H. Willig, MD, MSPH, serves as a Professor of Medicine and Infectious Diseases and the Associate Dean of Clinical Education at the University of Alabama at Birmingham Heersink School of Medicine. His research interests in quality improvement and medical informatics have found expression in both research into quality issues in HIV primary care and the design of software to enhance research and education. Dr. Willig has led the development of many significant software projects at UAB including the HIV/AIDS Computerized Patient Record v.2 (used for chronic disease care for a clinic with over 2,500 active patients from 2006-2012), the PRO Software Platform (real time PRO capture in clinical care settings), Kaizen Education (gamification in education, over 20,000 users), Connection to Care (at home monitoring of diabetic care goals), and other applications over the past 11 years.
Dr. John Kheir joined the staff of the Boston Children’s Hospital Heart Center in 2010. He is a staff physician in the cardiac intensive care unit, where he cares for critically ill patients with congenital heart disease. He is also the co-founder of the Translational Research Lab within the Heart Center, a group focused upon the development of new diagnostic and treatment tools related to oxygen deprivation, a common problem in patients with severe heart disease. For example, he and his group are developing tools to deliver oxygen directly to the bloodstream for use in extreme emergencies. Among his other interests are new ways to determine whether patients are receiving sufficient oxygen delivery following their operations, particularly in infants with hypoplastic left heart syndrome.
Lisa Gulker is a clinical informatics leader and clinician with more than 25 years of healthcare and IT experience. She is a critical care nurse and has held numerous health system roles as a nurse executive. Lisa currently serves as vice president, product management and strategy, for Health System Operations at Oracle Health. This portfolio focuses on clinical operations for healthcare, enabling the removal of any operational barriers that get in the way of patients and care teams being together.
Jason Sutin, PhD is an Instructor in Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and a researcher in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) at Boston Children’s Hospital. His research focuses on developing novel hardware and software to prevent brain injuries both from disease and during intensive care. He is passionate about global health and co-leads a large project for infant hydrocephalus in collaboration with the CURE Children’s Hospital of Uganda, Africa. He also previously spun a biomedical imaging startup, TissueVision Inc., out of MIT.