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Latest Health Wonk Review at Healthcare Economist
Jason Shafrin hosts the latest edition of the Health Wonk Review on his Healthcare Economist blog. Check it out!
Platform Failure and Success: Lessons from Outside Healthcare
Healthcare is just starting down the road of adopting platform technology and business models. What lessons can we learn from other industries?
A recent article by Andreas Constantinou in Vision Mobile blog provides guidance. The article lists a Dead Platform Graveyard from the past 10 years — you will probably recognize some of the names: Meego (Nokia/Intel), Palm 5/6, Symbian OS (Nokia) WebOS (HP), Windows Mobile (Microsoft). Blackberry RIM is a candidate to make next year’s list.
Software platforms have failed for a […]
Survey Says: Yes, National HIT Architecture is Shifting, Thank Goodness!
Brian Ahier sparked a feud with his Google+ post commenting on a recent JAMIA article entitled Shift in the Architecture of the Nationwide Health Information Network. We’re at 60+ comments and going strong. The discussion has also been picked up on in Modern Healthcare.
The JAMIA article was written by Leslie Lenert and colleagues, and Lenert joins in heartily in the Google+ discussion. From the abstract, here are 3 key points they make:
1) …a significant change in the architecture of the NwHIN is […]
Healthcare Apps: Just Scratching the Surface of the App Economy
The headline in yesterday’s LA Times declares:
‘App Economy’ credited with creating 446,000 jobs.
What’s the App Economy?
Op Ed: Emanuel NYT Editorial is Irresponsible and Naive
Zeke Emanuel’s editorial in the New York Times — The End of Health Insurance Companies — really got my blood boiling. It’s irresponsible and naive. Former Obama advisor Emanuel “predicts”:
By 2020, the American health insurance industry will be extinct. Insurance companies will be replaced by accountable care organizations — groups of doctors, hospitals and other health care providers who come together to provide the full range of medical care for patients.
Irresponsible
Provoking and demonizing health plans might have had populist appeal and political value in […]
“Platforms” for Accountable Care, a “Must Have”, Not Just a “Nice to Have”
What do Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google have in common?
Eric Schmidt, Chairman (and former President) of Google, coined the term “Gang of Four” in referring to the similar platform/application technical architecture and business models of these companies. In the case of Apple iOS and Google Android OS, much of the value is created by the 500K+ applications built on these platforms, not just by the platform themselves.
So four of the largest, most successful companies in the world are built on platforms — […]
Announcing the Inaugural eCollaboration Forum at HIMSS12!
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 view of platforms and will be exploring the required technologies, business ecosystems, and clinical care delivery needed to achieve accountable care.
Speakers
Sponsored by HIMSS and Collaborative Health Consortium (formerly the Clinical […]
Op-Ed: ACP Doctors, Thank You for Acknowledging a Law of the Universe
Resources are finite. They just are. This is not an opinion, it is a law of the universe.
Yet, for my lifetime, I have been incredibly frustrated by medicine’s cultural and practical lack of acknowledgement of this law.
FINALLY, the American College of Physicians (ACP) got it. Kaiser Health News describes the revelation:
The American College of Physicians hit a nerve when it released an updated ethics manual calling for doctors to provide “parsimonious care” – in other words, “to practice effective and […]
Welcome to the Blogosphere! Voice on Population Health
The Care Continuum Alliance announces a timely new blog: Voice on Population Health.
Tracey Moorhead, President and CEO of the Care Continuum Alliance, writes today’s inaugural post. She persuasively notes the increasing importance of the full continuum of population health interventions – wellness, prevention and other approaches to improving health, reducing disease risk and raising productivity.
Bob Laszewski’s essay on today’s THCB resonated with me: 2012: A Year of Huge Uncertainty in Health Care Policy. In my 30 years in health care, I have […]
Holiday Shopping Guide Edition of the Health Wonk Review
Check out the best of  health care policy punditry on the Wright on Health blog. Brad Wright hosts the latest edition of the Health Wonk Review.