Welcome to Collective Conversations, a series of discussions aimed at highlighting people and groups working to improve health through better health care systems. I’m your host, Joy Lee, a program manager for the Value and Systems Science Lab led by Dr. Joshua Liao who is a physician and Associate Chair for Health Systems in the Department of Medicine at the University of Washington.

In today's conversation you'll hear from Dr. John Scott.

John is the Chief Digital health Officer at UW Medicine. He chairs the Washington State Telehealth Collaborative and serves on the Telehealth committee for the Infectious Disease Society of America. The Washington State Medical Association recognized him with the Grassroots Advocate Award in 2020 for his work in advocating for policy changes for telemedicine at the state and federal level.

Dr. Scott provides a lot of great insights to this timely topic of digital medicine and I'm confident you'll appreciate them as well.