Let’s look at the U.S. smartphone operating system (OS) market as an example. In 2007, Apple iOS and (Google) Android had a collective market share of 0%. Today they have a collective market share of 77%. No tag for this post.
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Competition today in healthcare encourages care providers to hoard patient data. That’s inefficient, ineffective, and just plain wrong. But we’re seeing light at the end of the tunnel — the proposed Stage 2 Meaningful Use (MU) rules reinforce new, evolving accountable care payment approaches. The rules support moving competition in healthcare to the right bases — sharing and adding value to patient health record [...]
Implications of a Shifting National HIE Architecture March 5, 2012 @ 1:00PM Eastern COURSE DESCRIPTION: A recent paper by Dr. Les Lenert published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA) has prompted a flurry of debate in the HIT industry and across a number of social media outlets about the shifting [...]
My colleague Shahid Shah and I are glad to make available to you a copy of the slides from our upcoming presentation “The Future of Platforms in Healthcare.” This presentation takes place at the eCollaboration Forum as part of HIMSS12 on Thursday, February 23. You can access the slides here. While the eCollaboration Forum in Las Vegas is [...]
The inaugural eCollaboration Forum taking place at HIMSS12 on Thursday, February 23, 2012 in Las Vegas is SOLD OUT! A webinar is available to those who will not be in Las Vegas: http://eCollab12.eventbrite.com Theme — Collaborative Platforms and Applications in Health Care This is the Health IT industry’s first-ever event focusing on collaborative health platforms [...]
Healthcare is just starting down the road of adopting platform technology and business models. What lessons can we learn from other industries? A recent article by Andreas Constantinou in Vision Mobile blog provides guidance. The article lists a Dead Platform Graveyard from the past 10 years — you will probably recognize some of the names: Meego [...]
Brian Ahier sparked a feud with his Google+ post commenting on a recent JAMIA article entitled Shift in the Architecture of the Nationwide Health Information Network. We’re at 60+ comments and going strong. The discussion has also been picked up on in Modern Healthcare. The JAMIA article was written by Leslie Lenert and colleagues, and Lenert [...]
The headline in yesterday’s LA Times declares: ‘App Economy’ credited with creating 446,000 jobs. What’s the App Economy? No tag for this post.
What do Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google have in common? Eric Schmidt, Chairman (and former President) of Google, coined the term “Gang of Four” in referring to the similar platform/application technical architecture and business models of these companies. In the case of Apple iOS and Google Android OS, much of the value is created by [...]
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