Subscribe if you want to be notified of new blog posts. You will receive an email confirming your subscription.

Please enter your name.
Please enter a valid email address.

Please check the captcha to verify you are not a robot.

Something went wrong. Please check your entries and try again.

Information & Communication Technologies (ICT)

podcast recording concept with microphone, headphones and laptop computer next to note pad on dark table

Chilmark Podcast–Platform Thinking for Healthcare: A Discussion with Vince Kuraitis and Randy Williams

Dr. Randy Williams and I were interviewed by Jody Ranck of Chilmark Research. We discuss platform thinking for healthcare. Chilmark’s article contains a link to the podcast, a summary, and an “AI-generated” transcript.

Here are a few choice quotes from the podcast:

Vince: “EHRs are the poster child for a lack of platform thinking in health care”

Randy: “traditional business models really produce products and services, and they do that through taking the production side, integrating that and ultimately selling and delivering a product or a service to a customer….platform businesses really contrast with these traditional pipeline businesses by unlocking new sources of value both on the creation side of a transaction but also on the consumption side. Their function is really to facilitate matches or to consummate exchanges of goods and services, thereby creating value for all the parties.”

The Healthcare Platform Blog

Will Google Health Platformize the Electronic Health Record Market?

by Vince Kuraitis, Edward G. Anderson, and Geoffrey Parker

The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated calls for the development of EHR 2.0 (electronic health record 2.0) – the next generation of EHRs with extended platform features and capabilities.

Who will answer this call? While existing EHR vendors have made modest efforts, the door is open for big tech companies and start-ups to develop functionality to envelop and disintermediate current EHRs. We highlight early efforts by Google Health Care Studio as having the potential to bring platform functionality to a sector of the healthcare industry known for resistance to change and innovation.

Read the full article in The Health Care Blog.

image

Will Virtual Care Platforms (VCPs) Become Healthcare’s Mega-Platforms?

by Vince Kuraitis and Seth Joseph

Let’s start with a pop quiz. Take 15 seconds to look at the list below, asking yourself the question “What do all these have in common?”

address booksvideo cameraspagerswristwatchesmapsbookstravelgamesflashlightshome telephonescash registersMP3 playersDay timers

alarm clocksanswering machinesThe Yellow Pageswalletskeystransistor radiospersonal digital assistantsdashboard navigation systemsnewspapers and magazinesdirectory assistancetravel and insurance agentsrestaurant guidespocket calculators

The commonality is that all of these were disrupted by smartphones and their operating system (OS) platforms — Google Android and Apple iOS.

Let’s […]

Sharingppt

Slide Presentation: Patient Data Sharing–NOT Hoarding–is the New Normal

PowerPoint slides from the opening keynote of the virtual conference: Health Data Unbound — Innovations in Health Data Sharing.

health-data-unbound-home-1200x500

The Business Case for Health Data Sharing

Day-by-day, the business case for data sharing is growing stronger. In this essay, I’ll describe how COVID-19 is accelerating existing healthcare trends, how data sharing is becoming a key business strategy, and how you can learn more about these developments.

COVID-19 Accelerates Existing Trends

This might surprise you — one result of COVID-19 isn’t so much a new normal as it is the acceleration of pre-existing trends. Andreasen Horowitz venture capitalist Julie Yoo wrote about this in her masterful article: Healthcare: The Great Unlock.

She lists […]

conf-website

Health Data Unbound Virtual Conference

While there have been many events on interoperability and data sharing, what’s unique here is our focus on the BUSINESS rationale for health data sharing.

goldilocks + porridge

Health Data Outside HIPAA: Simply Extending HIPAA Would Be a #FAIL

Health Data Outside HIPAA: Simply Extending HIPAA Would Be a #FAIL

goldilocks + porridge

Protecting Health Data Outside of HIPAA: Will the Protecting Personal Health Data Act Tame the Wild West ?

Congress is seriously considering bipartisan legislation — the “Protecting Personal Health Data Act” — to better protect the privacy of consumers’ personal data.

goldilocks + porridge

Health Data Outside HIPAA: The Wild West of Unprotected Personal Data

The average patient will, in his or her lifetime, generate about 2,750 times more data related to social and environmental influences than to clinical factors.

goldilocks + porridge

Pending Federal Privacy Legislation: A Status Update

The buzz around federal privacy legislation continues, but as of yet there appear to be no proposals or bills that have emerged as the lead bills.
Despite the perceived lack of movement of current bills, the ticking clock on the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) suggests this issue is quite live in Congress, albeit less visible to most of us.