Healthcare is joining the network economy.
Let’s adapt strategy and business models for
success during the upcoming transformation.
My colleague Dr. Dave Rearick asked me to review his recent book, Good Health is Good Business. I’m pleased to recommend it enthusiastically. While the book is targeted at small to medium size employers, the lessons go far beyond this audience. By the end of the 3rd chapter, Dr. Rearick had convinced me of two conclusions that I’d [...]
Google Wants to Index Your DNA, Too Business Week; April 18, 2008 A few years ago I remember reading a vivid description of how much information is contained in one person’s genetic code: a stack of phone books high enough to reach the top of the Washington Monument. Tags: disease management
David C. Kibbe, MD, MBA and Vince Kuraitis Drs. Mandl and Kohane begin their recent article in NEJM with the statement that “large corporations are seeking an integral and transformative role in the management of health care information,” and then warn that this “will profoundly affect the biomedical research enterprise.” At issue for the authors [...]
Vince Kuraitis and David C. Kibbe, MD MBA Tomorrow’s edition of the New England Journal of Medicine contains an article entitled “Tectonic Shifts in the Health Information Economy”. While we have not yet fully digested this article, it’s clear that the authors’ description of the “Health Information Economy” closely parallels our initial description of the Personal Health Information Network [...]
Writing in ZDNet, Mary Jo Foley ponders the question of whether it might make sense for Microsoft to link HealthVault (HV) and Amalga. I’ll take this a step further and ask “Could a linkage between HealthVault and Amalga become a centerpiece of Microsoft’s broader health care strategy?” Tags: EHR, EHRs/PHRs, Google Health, HealthVault, hospital, personal [...]
What are companies like Google, Microsoft, and Dossia (sponsored by Intel, Wal-Mart, AT&T and others) hoping to accomplish in health care? What is the emerging Personal Health Information Network (PHIN) and why should you care? What’s the Continuity of Care Record (CCR) Standard, and how is it destined to become an initial focal point of data exchange initiatives? Why is the PHIN [...]
While not providing anything close to the “final answer”, The New York Times does a good job summarizing the onoging Medicare Health Support (MHS) fracas. To borrow from one of my colleagues, it’s more “enlightened ambiguity” about the ultimate fate of the MHS beached whale. Medicare Finds How Hard It Is to Save Money, The New York Times; April 7, [...]
Our colleague Dr. Aniruddha Malpani, MD has posted a diverse and enlightening latest version of the Medicine 2.0 Blog Carnival. Dr. M summarizes 4 major influences which will help patients to regain control over their healthcare: 1. Patients will keep their own medical records using a PHR ( Personal Health Record) 2. Information Therapy can be prescribed [...]
The Continua Health Alliance is doing a good job in getting remote patient monitoring (RPM) devices to become plug-n-play — where devices and peripherals from different manufacturers complying with Continua Guidelines will be able to talk to one another. Continua’s work-to-date is a necessary, but not yet sufficient effort to make RPM devices mainstream. Knocking [...]
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