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March 4, 2022

Dr. Darin Vercillo, ABOUT CMO talks about what he’s excited to see at the 2022 HIMSS show

PhysiciansPractice.com recently asked healthcare executives about what they were excited to see at the 2022 HIMSS show (March 14-18, 2022).
 
On their list was ABOUT Chief Medical Officer and Co-Founder, Darin Vercillo, MD. Here’s what he had to say:

Hospitals and healthcare systems are facing unprecedented human resource shortages. The greatest impact we’ve seen is in nurse staffing, however it extends to other areas of inpatient, long-term, and ambulatory care settings. The problem is compounded by ever-shifting demand due to COVID-19 waves, status of procedural areas, bottlenecks to post-acute placement, to name a few. Health IT can help ease the effect by creating visibility across organizations and supporting processes to better leverage available resources in multiple ways – even across competitive systems. I’m interested to hear how organizations have creatively addressed these issues to promptly deliver care and by extension improve patient outcomes”

 
Read the whole article at physicianspractice.com

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