"Where Is Digital Medicine?" - Benjamin Ross
Over five years ago, Ashish Atreja, MD, MPH, assistant professor of medicine and gastroenterology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, was intrigued with digital medicine and its potential to fill the gap between what hospitals and healthcare organizations wanted to be able to deliver for their patients and what they could deliver. Now the director of Sinai AppLab and chief technology, innovation, and engagement officer at The Mount Sinai Hospital, he sees transformation for the entire industry in the next five to ten years. “It’s a journey from innovation to transformation. We’ll be able to look at technology currently in infancy that we’re dabbing with and see it become more mainstream,” he said. “We have a unique opportunity to combine technology with clinical transformation, so that digital medicine is not seen as forceful but as evolutionary. If we do this the right way it can be very liberating.”
- 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