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In the News: On the Road to Achieving Digital Transformation

Healthcare Strategies Podcast features Peter Long’s healthcare predictions and barriers to digital transformation.
Peter Long
Peter Long

Peter Long, executive vice president of Strategy and Health Solutions at Blue Shield of California, was recently featured on two episodes of the Xtelligent Healthcare Media’s Healthcare Strategies podcast, discussing healthcare predictions for the year ahead and digital transformation.

In one episode, Peter outlines three main barriers on the road to achieving digital transformation, as well as how Blue Shield of California is leveraging integrated health records as a solution to these challenges. One such challenge is a lack of agreement among payers to collect and share patient data in a consistent, meaningful way - and his wish for 2023 is that such alignment becomes a reality.

Here are excerpts from the episodes:

“If 2020, 2021, and 2022 were the years of virtual care because of the global pandemic, 2023 will be the realization of how we take those access points and build a blended healthcare model for our members as health plans,” Long said.

Listen to the full episode here.

“The key to thinking about the digital transformation of healthcare and realizing its potential is to anchor it in the human. So, it’s an interest in taking the science of information and technology but making sure it’s anchored in an actual person’s experience,” Long told Healthcare Strategies.

Listen to the full episode here.