Thirteen Questions Health Execs Should Ask Before Spending Tech Dollars

The speed of adoption of new practices in medicine is extremely slow. We need systems to test new protocols, make sure they’re safe and effective, and get them out into the world more rapidly.

Briana Contreras, an editor of Managed Healthcare Executive, had the pleasure of catching up with MHE Editorial Advisory Board Member, Ateev Mehrotra, MD, MPH, who is a professor of healthcare policy at Harvard Medical School and an Associate Professor of Medicine and Hospitalist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.

Welcome back to another episode of "Tuning In to the C-Suite," where Briana Contreras, an editor of Managed Healthcare Executive, had the pleasure of chatting with Cindy Gaines, chief clinical transformation officer at Lumeon.

The imperative to upgrade healthcare technology infrastructure is clear, but the returns from such investment are anything but.

The latest data showed a 3.9% decrease in national use, dropping from 5.1% of medical claim lines in November to 4.9% in December.