Digital Innovation

Forbes | The Power of Digital In Proactively Fueling Evidence-Based Care Journeys

May 12, 2023  |  Providence Digital Innovation Group

In this Forbes article, Andy Chu writes: “Digital transformation can feel like a massive undertaking. But it’s also an opportunity to overtake inertia. Through a simplified and open standard-based platform, with identity at its core, all health systems can resurface those human-like interactions that enable people, across the communities we serve, to better and more […]

Digital Innovation

Project spotlight series: Surgical Concierge simplifies your surgery experience

August 25, 2021  |  Providence Digital Innovation Group

[2 MIN READ] In this article: The Digital Innovation Group (DIG) at Providence identifies ways to develop healthcare technology that improves access and equity for the communities we serve. Surgical Concierge is a pilot program that uses telehealth services and digital solutions to engage and guide patients throughout their surgical journey. The Providence DIG team […]

Digital Innovation

How to Fix the Surgical Experience

June 11, 2021  |  Aaron Martin

Think about the biggest purchase you have made in your life. For many, that purchase was a house. Remember the time and steps it took to research, compare, and finance that item? First time home buyers must find a realtor they can trust, find, and view houses that fit their needs, review countless confusing documents, […]

Digital Innovation

The Paradox of Choice

May 21, 2021  |  Aaron Martin

It’s a well-studied phenomenon that when you give people more choices, what they experience is not freedom, empowerment, and agency. What you get is paralysis, confusion, and burden. Over the past few decades, healthcare has had a growing paradox of choice problem—offering patients an ever-increasing number of care options—but not providing the information, guidance, and […]

Digital Innovation

Project spotlight series: Your healthcare journey just got easier

April 10, 2021  |  Providence Digital Innovation Group

Key takeaways: The Digital Innovation Group at Providence uses advances in technology to solve healthcare challenges. Project spotlights highlight innovations that are changing how care is delivered and accessed. Providence is working to transform the patient care journey with technology that makes primary care, surgical appointments and mental healthcare easier. [3 MIN READ] Increasing access […]

Innovation at Scale

2021: The Year Broken Health Care Systems Begin the Healing Process

February 24, 2021  |  Sara Vaezy

The Covid-19 pandemic didn’t break healthcare. It just brought to high relief the existing fractures. This is good, because those fracture lines become the map and roadways for where we in health care innovation need to focus our efforts. And having the failures of our systems be so obvious is giving set-in-their-ways health systems, payors […]