Ever heard of a hospital setting up a digital health operation within a single center of excellence? We hadn’t, either, until this week, when the Temple Lung Center at Temple University Health System in Philadelphia announced the establishment of the Center for Digital Health.
Dr. Gerard Criner, founding chair of Temple’s Department of Thoracic Medicine and Surgery, which started up in February, leads the Center for Digital Health. He also founded and continues to serve as chairman of HGE Health Care Solutions, a Temple spinoff that has built a mobile app that helps clinicians manage patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder.
HGE Health Care Solutions, which both Temple and Criner hold minority stakes in, is helping to launch the Center for Digital Health with a program intended to improve the quality of life for COPD patients.
Criner joined me for a Google Hangout to discuss the new, department-specific digital health center and the COPD program. Here are some highlights.
