"Cutting-Edge Hospitals Are Prepping For Digital Medicine" - Tom Sullivan

The future of healthcare is not a device or a drug thus far undiscovered. It is digital and that's no surprise - but it's not nearly as simple as today's digital health. Ashish Atreja, MD, co-founder of Prescription Universe and chief technology innovation and engagement officer at The Mount Sinai Hospital said that Mount Sinai must apply the same principles to digital medicine that they do to plain old medicine. That means doing no harm, delivering effective and patient-centered care, and doing so in a timely and efficient manner - which is not at all the way EHRs currently operate. Mount Sinai's App Lab and "little big data group" are innovating and cultivating technologies widely considered to be digital health today into the digital medicine of tomorrow. "We have to apply the rigor of evidence-based medicine to digital technologies," Dr. Atreja said.

- Ashish Atreja, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor, Medicine, Gastroenterology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Director, Sinai AppLab, Chief Technology Innovation and Engagement Officer, The Mount Sinai Hospital

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