Healthcare is joining the network economy.
Let’s adapt strategy and business models for
success during the upcoming transformation.
Please consider attending the inaugural eCollaboration Forum taking place at HIMSS12 on Thursday, February 23, 2012 in Las Vegas at the Venetian Sands Expo Center. Theme — Collaborative Platforms and Applications in Health Care This is the Health IT industry’s first-ever event focusing on collaborative health platforms and applications! We take an expansive [...]
We need to be far more explicit in asking a subtle but critical question What are acceptable bases of competition in health care? My sense is that the distinctions here are not well understood and often go undiscussed, so I’ll quickly get to the point: It’s OK for care providers to compete on the bases [...]
Yesterday’s announcement of “Standard Health Data Connectivity Specifications” by the EHR|HIE Interoperability Workgroup (EHR|HIE WG) is potentially earth-shattering. My mom would not know what I mean by “Standard Health Data Connectivity Specifications,” so I’ll try to write this in plain English. Who Are These Guys? The EHR|HIE Interoperability Workgroup The workgroup consists of HIEs (Health Information [...]
. . . by Nate DiNiro HealthCamp Oregon is organizing 2 events during the 3rd week of October in Portland, Oregon. The events will focus on Healthcare, Health IT, the ePatient & Participatory Medicine movement and all-things Healthcare Transformation! The first event, a panel that will focus on the impact of [...]
Click here or on the graphic to download a copy of my July 11 presentation from this year’s Healthcare Unbound conference. Tags: conference, Healthcare Unbound, platform
It’s understandable that a healthcare delivery system would have a mindset and business objective to keep referrals within its network of care providers. Businesses have a right and an obligation to try to hang on to their customers. It’s a different issue whether closed or walled garden HIT is an acceptable means toward that end. [...]
An earlier post — Could Facebook Be Your Platform for Care Coordination? — resonated well with folks. Readers and commenters (on e-CareManagement and The Health Care Blog) quickly grasped that a social networking platform could play a very useful role in coordinating our health care, yet also agreed with the conclusion that Facebook wasn’t “it”. So let’s ask [...]
Healthcare needs positive role models for innovation…and we have a real-time mentor in Netflix. If you have a Netflix subscription, you probably identify with the company as providing a convenient DVD rental service — order on the web, the DVD arrives by mail, send it back in the handy pre-paid envelope when you’re done. Today’s ReadWriteWeb [...]
By now most people understand the promise of pharmaceuticals being customized to “YOU” based on your individual genetic code. While this isn’t prevalent today, we understand that this will be possible in a few years. Let’s take a minute to consider the mechanics of how this will occur. You’ve received a prescription, and it directs the [...]
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