Sarah N Pletcher, MD MHCDS | Source | Vice President & Executive Medical Director, Strategic Innovation at Houston ...
Sarah N Pletcher, MD MHCDS
Dr Pletcher is the Chief Digital Health Officer at Houston Methodist. In this role, she leads the health system on strategy, development, acceleration and execution of new care models and innovations that are transforming the health system into its next decade- including use of technologies like virtual care, remote monitoring, ambient voice and sensing, AI, and comprehensive 'care redesign' efforts. Prior to joining Houston Methodist, Sarah was the Founder of the Centers for Connected Care & Telehealth at Dartmouth-Hitchcock, where she led the health system in the selection and implementation of new strategies utilizing telehealth technology platforms, and developed new clinical products and telemedicine programs across multiple specialties, and in multiple settings.
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Houston Methodist (https://www.houstonmethodist.org/)
Vice President & Executive Medical Director, Strategic Innovation
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How to Use Wearables Inside the Hospital
While wearable devices have gained attention for their use in remote patient monitoring programs, hospitals are finding more value in inpatient programs
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We wanted to use it in the inpatient setting because we've seen the value of continuous algorithm-based monitoring by a dedicated and highly skilled remote clinical team in the virtula ICU space. And the idea that we could hack the way vital signs are taken in the hospital setting, which hasn't really been innovated much in the last hundred of years, was a key opportunity area.
