Introducing: Vincent Ng
Title: Management consultant, health IT strategist, and a clinical pharmacist
Vincent Ng is passionate about transforming the healthcare system, particularly through the better use of information to improve access to safe, high quality healthcare.
His mission is to help transform the healthcare system, and he has dedicated his career to contributing to this transformation in all possible ways, including:
- Developing health system and health IT strategies;
- Managing the on-budget, on-time implementations of these strategies;
- Measuring and evaluating their impacts on patient safety, quality of care and effectiveness of care delivery; and;
- Improving the ability of clinicians to use technology to practise good medicine and to make their lives easier.
Advice:
1. Healthcare is in desperate need for change and innovation, and requires smart people from many different backgrounds to solve its problems – for example, business, IT, engineering, design, data analysis. So, don’t close the door for yourself if you’re not in a “traditional” healthcare path.