Healthcare is joining the network economy.
Let’s adapt strategy and business models for
success during the upcoming transformation.
Pop quiz: What do address books, video cameras, pagers, wristwatches, maps, books, travel games, flashlights, home telephones, cash registers, Walkmen, day timers, alarm clocks, answering machines, The Yellow Pages, wallets, keys, transistor radios, personal digital assistants, dashboard navigation systems, newspapers and magazines, directory assistance, travel and insurance agents, restaurant guides and pocket calculators all have [...]
A colleague recently wrote to me and asked me my definition of “collaboration”. It doesn’t mean that care providers need to hug each other and sing Kumbaya. Ideally, care providers will like each other, but that’s not foundational. I see 3 critical elements to clinical collaboration: No tag for this post.
by Vince Kuraitis and Leslie Kelly Hall, Senior Vice President, Policy, Healthwise. The sharing of patient information in the US is out of whack — we lean far too much toward hoarding information vs. sharing it. While care providers have an explicit duty to protect patient confidentiality and privacy, two things are missing: the explicit [...]
Where will the next layer of value in health care come from? This is a case where a picture is worth a thousand words. Source: Boston Consulting Group, Health Reform Should Focus on Outcomes, Not Costs, October 2012 No tag for this post.
by Vince Kuraitis and Shahid Shah We are pleased to offer you our updated perspectives on the future of platforms in healthcare. Click here for a copy of our joint presentation at the 9th Annual Healthcare Unbound Conference. This is an update from our earlier joint presentation at the eCollaboration Forum as part of HIMSS 12. What’s [...]
Guest post by Patrick Gordon, Director, Colorado Beacon Consortium Early pioneers to Colorado did not have the luxury of waiting for railway or infrastructure to be in place before taming a new frontier. Their vision and determination laid the foundation for the settlers who followed. They used the tools and talents they had to develop an [...]
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.
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 [...]
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