With a career that began in nursing, this leader used her bedside experience to inspire innovation at a federal and state level and is now focused on transforming healthcare though Geisinger's Steele Institute for Health Innovation.
'As chief innovation officer, I'm focused on developing fundamentally different approaches to healthcare. That's how we define innovation: a fundamentally different approach to solving a problem that has quantifiable outcomes.' – Karen Murphy, PhD, RN, chief innovation officer for The Steele Institute for Health Innovation at Geisinger. For many people, when they hear the word innovation, they assume that means technology. But as we are seeing during the COVID-19 pandemic, innovation can apply to a whole host of things from staffing to bed capacity to patient care. In this week's feature story, Karen Murphy, PhD, RN, chief innovation officer for The Steele Institute for Health Innovation at Geisinger, talks about using innovation to transform healthcare through technology and social determinants of health. Also, in this issue: How the patient safety movement has evolved Hospitals are seeing signs of 'financial recovery' Nurses struggle with COVID-19 death rates | |
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