Driving Innovation at Lee Health

Описание: Healthcare stayed the same for years. “If you want healthcare, you go to a specific location, at a specific time that we tell you when to go, and that’s just how the industry’s been for a while. Now we’re challenging that and thinking through things from the consumers perspective,” said Rasmussen.

Kristen Rasmussen is Lee Health’s senior innovation catalyst. She said one of the few good things that came out of the pandemic was that it forced change. “Continuing that spirit and also recognizing how many challenges healthcare has and how we have to think outside the box. I think it made it from a strategic perspective something we have to do.”

One of her roles is to focus on culture within the health system. “A lot of the things we do are processes. And we like to follow rules. We have lots of regulations that direct what we can do so innovations about creativity and having these wild crazy ideas and then drilling down on them and so that’s where I am building that type of a spirit, and embracing that type of approach to problem solving,” said Rasmussen.

She’s also able to use her background as an emergency medicine nurse to help translate different ideas. “Sometimes there are solutions that come out that are different and challenging and I try to be the in between person that helps make that bridge between the technical side of things and the clinical side,” said Rasmussen.

She said this kind of thinking benefits everyone, especially patients “It’s designing things with them at the center and not from the sideline.” The department also focuses on embracing technology and strategic partnerships. You can learn more by searching for innovation on leehealth.org. For LH im DT.



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Lee Health in Fort Myers, FL is the largest network of health care facilities in Southwest Florida and is highly respected for its expertise, innovation and quality of care. For more than 100 years, we’ve been providing our community with personalized preventative health services and primary care to highly specialized care services and robotic assisted surgeries.

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