The healthcare system has lost its way in large part due to technological advancements, pulling clinicians away from patients to read electronic health records at a computer terminal.

But Dr. David Feinberg believes that technology has the potential to solve the problems it created and put doctors and nurses back in front of the people they serve.

So, what is Dr. Feinberg’s vision for the future of EHRs? How can we leverage patient data to improve quality of care for individual patients and the healthcare system in general?

Dr. David Feinberg is Chairman of Oracle Health, where he is committed to making healthcare more accessible, affordable and equitable. 

Dr. Feinberg's work advances thought leadership and strategy related to unleashing the healing power of data through an open and connected healthcare ecosystem.

On this episode of The Beat, Dr. Feinberg joins host Dr. Gautam Gulati to explain how we might use advanced technologies to ‘get people to care about each other again.’

Dr. Feinberg explains why he measures time spent with patients versus time saved by technology and describes how to use the predictive capability of EHR data for better patient engagement.

Listen in for insight on leveraging social determinant information in EHRs to improve care and learn how Oracle is reimagining electronic health records to put clinicians back in front of their patients.

Topics Covered

• Dr. Feinberg’s goals around making healthcare systems easier to navigate
• What Dr. Feinberg learned from running health systems at UCLA, Geisinger and Google
• How Dr. Feinberg brings a commonsense approach to his role at Oracle
• Why Dr. Feinberg measures time with patients vs. time saved with technology
• What inspired Dr. Feinberg’s idea to eliminate the waiting room and why it didn’t work
• How investing in communities decreases the burden on our healthcare system
• How clinicians might use the social determinant information in Oracle’s EHR 
• Using the predictive capability of data in EHRs for better patient engagement
• Dr. Feinberg’s open and connected approach to sharing data sets (with appropriate privacy measures and cybersecurity in place)
• How Dr. Feinberg thinks about mitigating the risks of someone misusing patient data
• Dr. Feinberg’s fear that we’ll use technology to worsen inequities in healthcare
• Leveraging advanced technologies to ‘get people to care about each other again’

Connect with Dr. David Feinberg

• Oracle Health

Connect with Dr. Gautam Gulati & Dr. Jessica Shepherd

• ViVE
• HLTH
• Dr. Shepherd on Twitter
• Dr. Shepherd on LinkedIn
• Dr. Gulati on Twitter 
• Dr. Gulati on LinkedIn 

Resources

• Oracle Clinical Digital Assistant