EP 78: Designing Health Technology | Subha Airan-Javia

How can better designed healthcare tools decrease clinician
burnout? Why does the EHR suck so bad? What are ways to
improve data visualization in the medical record? As a hospitalist
and Associate CMIO at Penn Medicine, Dr. Subha Airan-Javia
recognized the daily challenges clinicians faced due to inefficient
workflows and poorly designed technology. Knowing there was a
better way she decided to pursue a career in clinical informatics
instead of cardiology and critical care medicine. Subha also has a
passion for how to improve communication between teams in medicine.
She developed Penn Medicine’s handoff training curriculum for
students and trainees, as well as developed a curriculum to teach
medical students how to incorporate technology into clinical care
in a way that improves patient encounters instead of detracting
from them. Over the next 15 years as faculty at Penn Medicine,
Subha worked to bridge the gap between front line clinicians and
the development of health technology. In that work, she and her
team created CareAlign, a care team collaboration platform to help
teams of clinicians work together to take better, more efficient
care of patients. Seeing how CareAlign revolutionized clinical
workflows at Penn, Subha knew the platform could bring the same
value to other institutions – which is how CareAlign the company,
came to be. She spun the platform out of Penn Medicine, and now
works to bring care team collaboration to other health systems and
care settings. With a driving mission of making it easier for
clinicians to do the right thing for patients, Subha believes
technology should facilitate healthcare delivery instead of making
it harder.  Follow Subha: Twitter | LinkedIn Episode Website:
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