What New Orleans Healthcare Leaders Understood—and What HCI’s Innovator Awards Winners Are All Doing

Healthcare Informatics: The old adage about necessity being the mother of invention couldn’t possibly be furnished with a better example than the healthcare delivery landscape in New Orleans. That city and metropolitan area, devastated by Hurricane Katrina in 2005, had already been socioeconomically challenged for years prior to that megastorm. In the wake of that disaster, the residents of greater New Orleans were dealt blow after blow by a combination of nature, economics, and in some instances, politics.

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