
When Novant Health closed its doors during the COVID-19 pandemic, they began performing over 20,000 virtual visits per day. The $8-billion health system, comprising 18 medical centers serving North and South Carolina, quickly recognized that embracing digital health is a necessity for engaging with today’s patients and improving access to care. Novant Health’s overall digital transformation strategy was the reason for this swift ability to provide virtual care when patients needed it most.
Novant Health takes an approach of innovation and flexibility to deploy technology solutions needed by its workforce and its patients. In leveraging partnerships with third party technology partners, such as LeanTaaS, inviting engagement from internal IT teams, communicating with stakeholders, and being willing to stay nimble when adopting new transformational projects, Novant Health has been able to provide the solutions to benefit its workforce and patients alike. These have included empowering infusion and surgical staff using LeanTaaS’ iQueue solutions to maximize capacity in their respective areas.
In this session, Novant’s Chief Transformation and Digital Officer and LeanTaaS’ Chief Operating Officer discuss the system’s journey and current approach to digital innovation, ways to think creatively about innovation opportunities, and why Novant’s embrace of digital health has been essential to providing the best virtual and physical care. Join to learn about one major health system’s digital transformation success during a critical time.


Take the first step towards unlocking capacity, generating ROI, and increasing patient access.
If you work in the healthcare industry, or even if you’re just an interested observer, you don’t need a book to tell you that the financial pressure is on as never before. A perfect storm of circumstances is swirling together, one that will make survivability, not to mention profitability, a greater challenge for healthcare companies than we’ve seen in the modern era.
As with banks, retailers, and airlines, which had to rapidly enhance their brick-and-mortar footprints with robust online business models—it is the early movers eager to gain new efficiencies that will thrive and gain market share. The slow-to-move and the inefficient will end up being consolidated into larger health systems seeking to expand their geographical footprints.
Let’s look at just a few of the looming challenges healthcare must meet head-on.
An aging population
By the year 2030, the number of adults sixty-five years of age or older will exceed the number of children eighteen years or younger in the United States. We are living longer than our parents did. Positive news for sure, but problematic for several reasons.
The older we get, the more medical help we need. Older people have more chronic diseases. By 2025, nearly 50 percent of the population will suffer from one or more chronic diseases that will require ongoing medical intervention. This combination of an aging population and an increase in chronic diseases will create a ballooning demand for healthcare services.