KLAS' Jennifer Hickenlooper is joined by Alex Nixon - Senior Research Analyst for the Center for Connected Medicine.

The Center for Connected Medicine (CCM) is an independent think tank at the Unviersity of Pittsburgh specializing in healthcare innovation and new technologies. For the past 6 years, CCM has done a Top of Mind annual report which shows the top 3 technologies that healthcare executives are considering and implementing.

For 2023, the 3 technologies that CCM found to be Top of Mind were Patient Access, Telehealth, and AI. This is interesting considering this matches the previous year's top 3 technologies as well and that may be due to change being slow in healthcare as well as holdover from needs from the COVID-19 pandemic. Healthcare providers and organizations are looking to restore patient volumes, and notice that consumers have more technology choices and greater expectations for their care. Their concern moving forward is that they compete with digital first and tech-enabled companies that are aiming to compete with traditional health systems.