Sarah Sossong, Senior Director at the Center for TeleHealth at Massachusetts General Hospital, is one of “8 influential women reshaping health IT,” recognized by the FierceHealthcare blog earlier this year.
From FierceHealthcare:
“After spending nearly seven years leading large technology and innovation initiatives in various parts of the Kaiser Permanente system, Sossong has spent the last six years leading Massachusetts General Hospital’s growing telemedicine efforts.
Building the hospital’s program nearly from the ground up, Sossong leads what is now considered one of the foremost academic telehealth programs in the country. Several years ago she helped launch a program allowing patients to get second opinions via telemedicine while championing initiatives allowing patients in rural parts of the country to access emergency physicians in Boston.
Lee Schwamm, M.D., executive vice chairman of neurology and the director of the MGH Comprehensive Stroke Center, says he had no idea when he recruited Sossong that she would have such swift success.
“Sarah built an outstanding team of highly skilled and motivated individuals and expanded our program across multiple divisions and departments to enable thousands of patient visits annually,” Schwamm said in an email to FierceHealthcare.
“She was able to rapidly apply her background in teledermatology at Kaiser Permanente to help us ramp up our telehealth efforts at MGH and highlight our work on the national stage.
“She has worked tirelessly to help increase our patients access to care through these novel delivery channels and to disseminate our approach across the country,” he added.“
Read more about all 8 influential women in health IT, here.
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Sarah will be speaking at MassTLC’s upcoming ReDev B0st0n event, Boston’s premier conference for developers and technical executives. Sarah will be part of a panel on developing for the healthcare space.
Tickets for ReDev are now available. Visit the conference page for more information.
