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For Your Radar — Huge Implications for Healthcare in Pending Privacy Legislation
The U.S. Congress is considering broad privacy and data protection legislation in 2019. There is some bipartisan support and a strong possibility that legislation will be passed. Federal privacy legislation would have a huge impact on all healthcare stakeholders, including patients.
WSJ Article on MD Referrals & Leakage: Beware of Premature Conclusions
The question we should be asking is “How can we best align the interests of patients, physicians and hospital systems in referral decisions?”
The answer sometimes might be to make a referral outside of the hospital system — but let’s not jump to premature conclusions.
Data from Connected Medical Devices: 5 Benefits
Why Healthcare Needs the Internet of Things
Guest Post by Abbas Dhilawala, Chief Technology Officer, Galen Data
The IoT consists of smart objects or devices with cloud connectivity capabilities — devices that can perform a function, collect data and transmit that data to a network where it can be used by humans to accomplish a goal. IoT devices are appearing everywhere in society, from the industrial supply chain to automated cars, but one of the most important applications for the IoT […]
Hoarding Patient Data is a Lousy Business Strategy: 7 Reasons Why
In the video below, Dr. Harlan Krumholz of Yale University School of Medicine capsulizes the rationale of hoarding as business strategy:
We encourage you to take a minute to listen to Dr. Krumholz, but if you’re in a hurry we’ve abstracted the most relevant portions of his comments:
“The leader of a very major healthcare system said this to me confidentially on the phone… ‘why would we want to make it easy for people to get their health data…we want to keep […]
The Biggest Trend You’ve Probably Never Heard Of: A Status Report on 138 Healthcare ICOs
You’ve probably heard of Bitcoin, but we doubt you’ve heard of Dentacoin, MedTokens, or Curecoin.
These are healthcare specific cryptocurrencies born from Initial Coin Offerings or ICOs.
Over on The Health Care Blog, my colleague Robert Miller and I have written an article analyzing financial returns of 138 healthcare ICOs.
The results are enlightening, but disappointing. Here are a few headlines:
122 healthcare ICOs are not exchange-listed
16 healthcare ICOs are listed on one or more exchanges
Of these 16, 5 show a positive financial return since the date […]
The Second Annual Healthcare Blockchain Summit, Boston, June 11-12
Click here for more info. Use discount code 68 to receive $100 off.
Hope to see you there!
Vince
PatientPing, Platforms, and Health Care Transformation
It’s challenging, rewarding and fun to be an ongoing advisor to early-stage companies like PatientPing!
PatientPing is an incredibly promising company developing platforms for health care system collaboration and transformation. Late last year they received a Series B round of $31.6 M, with investors to-date having included Andreesen Horowitz, Leerink Transformation Partners, Google Ventures, SV Capital, and Fidelity FPrime Capital.
I was recently interviewed by Marketing Manager Laura Bresnahan for a “Four Questions Series” blog post. The four questions addressed are:
Do you […]
Presentation Slides: Strategy & Business Models in Healthcare Blockchains
Here’s a copy of my slides from my keynote presentation at The Healthcare Blockchain Summit in Washington D.C. The presentation is titled:
Blockchains in Healthcare: Transforming Strategy & Business Models?
After reviewing some industry background and analysis of trends, consider 7 key implications:
Beware of “yellow flag” blockchain tech terminology: “could”, “possible”, “promising”.
Digital strategy is different than industrial era business strategy.
IMO, the most likely scenario for blockchain tech in healthcare is slow, steady growth over the next decade. After critical mass […]
Healthcare Blockchain Summit, DC, March 20-21
Blockchain technology is poised to transform healthcare services and business models. Learn from the leaders who are creating the blockchain future. Discover how to implement pilot projects and applications that improve quality, reduce the cost of healthcare services and clinical trials, promote interoperability, and enhance security.
Over 40 Speakers, Including:
Christian Catalini, PhD, Fred Kayne (1960) Career Development Professor of Entrepreneurship & Assistant Professor of Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Strategic Management, MIT Sloan School of Management
Kyle Culver, Solution Architect, Humana
Jason Goldwater, Senior […]
Diagnostic Accuracy Scores: Physicians 84%, Computer Algorithms 51%
A recent study in JAMA Internal Medicine reported on the diagnostic accuracy of physicians vs. computer algorithms. The study compared the performance of one computer symptom checker app to the text based answers of 234 physicians, 90% of whom were general internists. You can read a summary here.
JAMA IM study: MDs vastly outperformed computer algorithms in diagnostic accuracy–84% v 51% correcthttps://t.co/hfVJYA9rgu #digitalhealth
— Vince Kuraitis (@VinceKuraitis) December 30, 2016
Twitter commentators had a lot to say about […]