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Nov 22, 2022 · At Phoenix Children's Hospital, Chief Innovation Officer David Higginson likes to get out of his office and roam the campus, looking at how caregivers, patients, and families interact.
Jun 30, 2021 · In this edition of Conversations with Healthcare Leaders, David Higginson, Executive Vice President, Chief Innovation Officer at Phoenix Children’s, talks about how a strategic partnership with Philips has helped the healthcare provider gain a huge strategic and business advantage.
Apr 19, 2023 · David Higginson, the chief innovation officer, explains how machine learning is detecting children with malnutrition and helping the health system financially.
- From Accounting to It
- Fixing Persistent Problems
- The Future of Health It
- Waving The Magic Wand
Higginson shares that it that it is a “total accident” that he ended up working in IT. Though he grew up tinkering with computers and programming, his professional career began as a CPA. While working at MIT and later at Arkansas Children’s Hospital, Higginson realized the organizations would benefit from moving away from paper records and to compu...
Higginson observes that persistent problems with EMRs often force clinicians to focus on the task of entering information without offering a payback to the physician or nurse. He believes that if a user is taking the time to input data, they should get something out of the process – or what is the point of doing it? That mindset fueled Higginson’s ...
Dr. Anders and Higginson also reflect on the future of health IT and EMRs. Higginson believes the next major reiteration of EMRs will change the input process: instead of being chained to a mouse and keyboard, physicians will rely on “automated scribes” that allow them to converse with patients and have the dialog recorded in the background. Much l...
As has become his custom, Dr. Anders closes out the conversation asking Higginson what he would change about health IT if he had a magic wand. “I would somehow stop the focus on the technology itself,” says Higginson. He encourages others in IT to make sure their work is “relevant to the organization” and to “speak the language of the organization ...
Mar 5, 2018 · Meet David Higginson, CIO at Phoenix Children's Hospital and discover his role in digital healthcare transformation. Learn more at http://philips.to/2Fnu6Hr....
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Mar 27, 2018 · Phoenix Children's Hospital Chief Information Officer David Higginson has spent the past several years putting an intense focus on patient safety, using Allscripts technology to innovate new tools and processes that put patient data to work in identifying areas where different approaches can be encouraged to drive quality and safety improvements.
David Higginson has dedicated more than 25 years to Children’s Healthcare and joined Phoenix Children's in 2011 as the Chief Information Officer (CIO). As CIO, he oversaw all aspects of information technology strategy, project execution, systems design and maintenance of the technology infrastructure.
