"This is not the place to sit if you don't enjoy the environment."
So said Hal Wolf, president and CEO of Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital, during his keynote address at the HIMSS Global Health Conference in Orlando, Fla., last week.
Wolf was talking about the need for hospitals to be more efficient, and he used the hospital's example of using artificial intelligence to create a more personalized patient experience.
"If you don't like this, you don't like sustainability," he said.
"We know that we need to drive true change."
Wolf's example is an example of how hospitals are using technology to reduce waste and improve patient care, but it's also an example of how technology can be used to solve some of the biggest problems facing the health care industry.
For example, he said, hospitals need to be more efficient at referring patients to specialists, and they need to be more creative in how they use technology to improve patient outcomes.
"We need to think outside the box," Wolf said.
"We don't want to be in the business of saying, 'Here's a problem, here's a solution.' We want to be in the business of saying, 'Here
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