Healthcare is joining the network economy.
Let’s adapt strategy and business models for
success during the upcoming transformation.
Frequent keynoter, speaker, panel moderator at 40+ industry conferences in the past 3 years Opening keynote speaker – 2004-2009 Healthcare Unbound Conferences Speaker at corporate events sponsored by: Guidant Roche Diagnostics Centocor Arizona Hospital Association Gateway Computer Connecticut Hospital Association, Walgreens National Advisory Board Blue Cross Blue Shield Association HomMed Honeywell Spacelabs …and others Facilitation/consulting [...]
This post is a foundational overview of characteristics of network industries. Much of the terminology will deserve deeper discussion, but we have to start somewhere. In his book The Economics of Network Industries, Professor Oz Shy lists four characteristics of network industries. The main characteristics of these markets which distinguish them from the market for grain, dairy products, apples, and [...]
“We need to make care linkages a core competency of American health care.” George Halvorson, Chairman and CEO, Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Kaiser Foundation Hospital There’s a double meaning to the title of this new series: Healthcare Crosses the Chasm to the Network Economy At the level of technology, it’s a reference to Geoffrey Moore’s [...]
Google Health…please stick around….but please also get your stuff together. Over the past few days, several of my respected colleagues have written excellent blog posts essentially asking “Does Google Health have life?” Scott Shreeve — CLEAR! Shocking Google Health Back to Life John Moore — Is Google Health Irrelevant? Will Crawford — Future of Google Health I [...]
The forthcoming definition of the “meaningful use” of health information technology will set the direction of the Obama administration’s strategy for health IT adoption, said David Blumenthal, the new national coordinator for health IT. Government HealthIT, April 28, 2009 …but not everyone sees eye-to-eye on the definitions of “meaningful use” and [...]
Part Medical Home 101, part strategy session to rescue primary care, part revival meeting — the National Medical Home Summit held earlier this week in Philadelphia was an amazing event. The optimism, energy, and dogged persistence of attendees and presenters was pervasive. The event was standing room only with another 200 people tuning in to [...]
The federal government sponsored Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology (CCHIT ) is undertaking a certification process for personal health records (PHRs) . The CCHIT PHR Work Group has invited public comment on the First Draft of the PHR Certification Criteria . The current draft of the PHR Certification Criteria specifies use of the HL7 [...]
Writing in ZDNet, Mary Jo Foley ponders the question of whether it might make sense for Microsoft to link HealthVault (HV) and Amalga. I’ll take this a step further and ask “Could a linkage between HealthVault and Amalga become a centerpiece of Microsoft’s broader health care strategy?” Tags: EHR, EHRs/PHRs, Google Health, HealthVault, hospital, personal [...]
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 [...]
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