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Innovative UT pilot develops platform to help providers adopt digital health tools

Healthcare IT News: Healthcare is complicated. There's no getting around it. Which is why hospital leaders should be extremely skeptical of individual technologies that say they can fix it, says Lynda Chin, MD, executive director for real-world education detection and intervention at The University of Texas System and professor at Dell Medical School.

The challenges of healthcare are "so big and complex that no little solution is going to solve them," said Chin. "We do need these innovative technologies to fill the gaps – but what we don't talk enough about is how do you integrate that back. Because the patient is not going to get what they need if it's not integrated and connected through every other component."

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