Digital Innovation

What Do Cashless Payments Have To Do With Healthcare?

October 19, 2020  |  Providence Digital Innovation Group

Cash just isn’t what it used to be. Rather than stopping by the ATM, American consumers are turning to mobile payments. In fact, the mobile payments market went from $69.8 billion in 2018 to $98.8 billion in 2019–a 41% increase. It’s revealing that more than 1 in 10 Millennials are already using digital wallets for all of their purchases. […]

Digital Innovation

The Think Tank Ep. 7: Building Centers for Innovation in “Staid” Industries

October 12, 2020  |  Providence Digital Innovation Group

What happens when you bring together two bright digital experts to tackle health care’s biggest challenges? In our seventh episode, we were joined by our Chief Digital Officer, Aaron Martin, and Woody Driggs, who is the Principal of EY and Leader of its Digital Transformation Wavespace initiative. The duo had a candid discussion around how they’re driving innovation in […]

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What Happens When Your Online Catalog is Easily Shoppable?

October 12, 2020  |  Providence Digital Innovation Group

Pre-internet, shopping was an endurance sport. It meant spending hours, or days, going from store to store, down aisle after aisle, until finally, maybe, you found what you were looking for. And if you wondered if it was actually cheaper somewhere else, you would have no choice but to summon the energy and start your […]

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The Think Tank Ep. 6: Improving Access – Digitally Serving Up Services Directly to End-Users

September 1, 2020  |  Providence Digital Innovation Group

What happens when you bring together two bright digital experts to tackle health care’s biggest challenges? In our sixth episode, we were joined by the Digital Innovation Group’s Chief Digital Officer, Aaron Martin, and Madhur Aggarwal, who is the former SVP of Digital Channels & Customer Experience for Pearson to discuss how they’ve approached improving […]

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The Think Tank Ep. 5: Creating a Personalized Experience in Marketing

August 1, 2020  |  Providence Digital Innovation Group

What happens when you bring together two bright minds to tackle health care’s biggest challenges? This isn’t your typical brainstorm among healthcare experts. This is a supercharged session between two minds that work in similar, but very disparate industries. Our guests talk about a broad challenge they face and discuss how they’ve approached the problem […]

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COVID-19: Providence Calls Healthcare Innovators to Make a Difference in the Pandemic

July 23, 2020  |  Providence Digital Innovation Group

We’ve all seen the devastating impact COVID-19 has had on the public, the risk to our front-line clinicians and essential workers, racial disparities, and the negative impact on the economy. It has been harrowing and tragic. We are, sadly, only at the beginning stages with second surges now occurring across the country. Providence, one of […]

Digital Innovation

The Think Tank Ep. 4: Building Centers for Digital Innovation

July 1, 2020  |  Providence Digital Innovation Group

What happens when you bring together two bright minds to tackle health care’s biggest challenges? This isn’t your typical brainstorm among healthcare experts. This is a supercharged session between two minds that work in similar, but very disparate industries. Our guests talk about a broad challenge they face and discuss how they’ve approached the problem […]

Innovation at Scale

Technology Partnerships in the Time of COVID-19

May 12, 2020  |  Providence Digital Innovation Group

While there has been a lot of talk about technology disruption in the health care industry lately, the COVID-19 crisis has created an opportunity to accelerate value by combining the unique resources and skills of health systems and technology companies. Technology organizations in recent years have looked at the $3.2 trillion dollar health care industry’s […]

Innovation at Scale

Why Having a Tech Incubator Inside a Health System is Helping Response to COVID-19

April 17, 2020  | 

The healthcare landscape is full of digital technologies striving to make an impact. The consistent question is whether these technologies are transforming healthcare in a way that gets us closer to the “quadruple aim”: improving population health, providing a better patient and provider experience, and lowering costs. With this in mind, Providence was an early […]

Digital Innovation

Building a Healthier Future (Part III)

October 4, 2019  |  Providence Digital Innovation Group

The Digital Innovation Group here at Providence St. Joseph Health is constantly tracking the latest healthcare tech to find ways to give you more control over where, when and how you access services to help you live a healthy, active life. In this information age, data is everything — and everything we do produces data. […]