Healthcare is joining the network economy.
Let’s adapt strategy and business models for
success during the upcoming transformation.
by Vince Kuraitis, Steve Adams, and David C. Kibbe MD, MBA Over the past several years, many diverse initiatives have arisen offering partial solutions to systemic problems in the U.S. health care non-system. We see Meaningful Use Criteria recommended by the HIT Policy Committee as a unifying force for these previously disparate initiatives. These initiatives have included: Patient [...]
Today’s post is the first in a series entitled: Modifications to HIPAA Privacy Laws: Impact on Microsoft HealthVault, Google Health, and other PHRs. We’ll explore how recent changes in privacy provisions of ARRA/HITECH Federal stimulus legislation affect personal health information (PHI) platform companies (e.g., HealthVault, Google Health, Dossia) and personal health record (PHR) companies. Health IT expert and journalist Neil Versel described the issue [...]
Will the Microsoft HealthVault, Google Health, and Dossia personal health information (PHI) platforms be able to exchange data? In our introductory essay announcing the Birth of the Personal Health Information Network (PHIN), Dr. David Kibbe and I posed a critical question: What will the PHIN look like? Will there be multiple, non-interoperable, competing networks or just one interoperable [...]
Personal health records (PHRs) are evolving toward becoming Personal Health Record Systems (PHRSs). …that’s my key takeaway from attending the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) Project Health Design (PHD) conference in Washington D.C. on September 17. The conference was entitled A ‘Report Out’ from Project HealthDesign and Forum on Next-Generation PHRs . A PHD Fact Sheet capsulizes the [...]
By Vince Kuraitis and David C. Kibbe, MD, MBA Once upon a time, there was a little girl named Goldilocks. Like most Americans, Goldilocks had concerns about achieving just the right amount of data liquidity for her personal health information (PHI). Until today Goldilocks felt between a rock and a hard place: "I want my [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Vince Kuraitis and David C. Kibbe, MD MBA Who is the federal government calling on to breathe life into the Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN)? Google and Microsoft. In our first article of this series describing the Personal Health Information Network (PHIN), we noted early entrants as Google Health, Microsoft HealthVault, and Dossia. We also noted [...]
Vince Kuraitis and David C. Kibbe, MD MBA The Internet and digital technologies have transformed many aspects of our lives over the past twenty years. We can get cash at ATMs all over the world; we can book our own airline reservations; we can shop and get best prices over the Internet. Why hasn’t this [...]
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