From the January/February 2018 issue of HealthCare Business News magazine


HCB News: Thinking about the next five to 10 years, what will be some of the biggest changes in health IT?

DH: I think we’re starting to see where interoperability can be useful, having our systems implemented and extracting data and getting that to providers. Bringing together the whole community of providers for one patient is where health care is headed.


We’ll see new technology integrated into our day-to-day health interactions. And then, we’ll have the ability to make sure everyone is included in health care. It won’t be just the large health systems, but the personal care home run by a mom and dad taking care of several people in the community, too.

Health care will be much more personalized by incorporating digitized medicine. We’ll have a better ability to develop the treatment path for a particular disease in a particular person. There will also be more work done regarding population health. We’ll see that a zip code might be predisposed to certain diseases due to pollution in the water, for example, and use that to identify issues like Flint, Mich., experienced. Information will be created to see how we can prevent population health crises in the next five to 10 years. Work will be done bringing in our federal agencies and getting them the information they need to accomplish their jobs. There will also be the challenge to increase clinical information in order to prevent outbreaks.

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