
In this video, we hear about trends and future expectations in health IT from LaDonna Worrell, Senior Director of IT Operations at Duke Health and Justin T. Collier, MD, Healthcare CTO North America at Lenovo. The hospital of the future is coming soon at Duke Health, which is planning to open a brand new facility in North Carolina in three years. Already, according to Worrell, three units at an existing hospital have been designated as "Beta units" (using a term common in computing for products that are not fully tested but are being tried out in real-life production). Some of the products being used there have been designated for the upcoming hospital They also have simulation labs. Collier listed several exciting technologies that he thinks will be central to health care. Top of the list, of course, is AI, which he prefers to call "assistive intelligence." Statistics report that the healthcare industry is adopting AI at twice the rate of other industries. Learn more about Lenovo: https://techtoday.lenovo.com/us/en/solutions/healthcare Learn more about Duke Health: https://www.dukehealth.org/ Healthcare IT Community: https://www.healthcareittoday.com/

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