Every monitor in a hospital is good at its job.
 

A bedside monitor understands physiologic signals. An infusion pump knows medication delivery. The EHR tracks documentation. Each system generates valuable data, but each sees only one part of the patient's story. As Matt Grubis observes, "maybe it's actually not information yet."

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Meanwhile, nurses are doing what they've always done: connecting those pieces in their heads while moving from room to room, responding to alarms, administering medications, and constantly deciding who needs them first.

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For the Chief Clinical Informatics Officer, success is measured after the alert fires. Did it reach the right clinician? Did it fit into their workflow? Was it trusted? Did someone take ownership, and did the right action follow? Those are the questions that separate technology that helps clinicians from technology that becomes one more interruption in an already demanding shift.

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In this episode of Beyond the Blueprint, host Gregg Malkary is joined by:
 

• Jason Atkins, Vice President & Chief Clinical Informatics Officer, Emory Healthcare
   

• Matt Grubis, Chief Engineer, Monitoring Solutions, GE HealthCare
   

• Ryan Fox, Digital & IoMT Strategy Lead, GE HealthCare
   

Together, they explore how the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) is helping health systems connect isolated streams of clinical data into a fuller picture of the patient. Matt illustrates the idea with a simple analogy: a thermostat that knows not just the room temperature, but also the position of the sun. The conversation covers enterprise clinical surveillance, where AI fits when it disagrees with a clinician's bedside judgment, and why "human in the loop" isn't going away anytime soon. It also explores what real vendor partnership looks like when there's actual skin in the game for clinical adoption instead of another tool handed off for the hospital to implement.
 

Because everyone shares the same goal: helping care teams recognize what matters, coordinate their response, and act before a patient's condition deteriorates.