With more than two decades of medical management experience, Michel Dagher, DO, currently serves as CMO and CMIO of Phoenix-based The CORE Institute.
Previously, Dr. Dagher served as CMO of Goodyear, Ariz.-based West Valley Hospital. While at West Valley, he concurrently served as the medical director for Abu Dhabi, UAE-based Zayed Military Hospital.
Dr. Dagher will take part in panels on Tuesday, April 18, and Thursday, April 20, 2017 at the Becker's Hospital Review 8th Annual Meeting. As part of an ongoing series, Becker's is talking to healthcare leaders planning to speak at the conference, which will take place from April 17 through April 20 in Chicago.
To learn more about the conference and Dr. Dagher's panels, click here.
Question: What is one idea you think we would use more in healthcare?
MD: I believe we should learn to separate signals from noise.
Q: As a CMO and CMIO, what are the biggest challenges and biggest benefits of combining medicine and IT?
MD: The greatest challenges are perfecting interoperability among health systems, coping with too much noise programmed into the system and finding correlation without evidence of causation.
The biggest benefits are assessing the impact of clinical and nonclinical variables, indexing and overseeing analytics and outcomes management.
Q: One panel you're speaking on at the April conference is titled "Innovation and Information Technology." What do you consider two of the main innovations in health IT over the past five years?
MD: Two of the key innovations include health informatics and remote patient monitoring.