Roberta Schwartz, Houston Methodist’s chief innovation officer, has had years of experience overseeing technology adoption at her organization. At a conference, she highlighted how important it is for digital health tools to have strong EHR integrations and encouraged hospital leaders to not be afraid of starting various technology initiatives in unrelated areas.

Avia CEO Linda Finkel has had many conversations with health systems executives about why their technology initiatives haven’t gone as planned in the past. Based on these experiences, she has noticed four main reasons hospitals don’t see the results for which they were hoping — including not exercising enough scrutiny during the vendor selection process and failure to think about capability at scale.

The four shared challenges for Medicaid programs identified by the Primed roundtable series were member engagement, data actionability, data exchange and workforce capacity.