Asked to define innovation today, most IT leaders will agree: It’s all about digitization and finding new and better ways of thinking about processes and services to solve a problem.
“Around here, we think of it as a stool with three legs: quality/safety, patient satisfaction, and cost efficiencies,’’ says Sam Amirfar, CIO and chief medical information officer at The Brooklyn Hospital Center.
Chris Manriquez, vice president of IT at California State University, Dominguez Hills, sees innovation as “the rapid, practical application of digital technologies to resolve present and emerging needs.’’ And it’s about developing new digital or tech-enabled spaces, which could incorporate elements of the metaverse, he says.
