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Information & Communication Technologies (ICT)
Platform Wars!
Click here or on the graphic to download a copy of my July 11 presentation from this year’s Healthcare Unbound conference.
Google+ Shines the Light on the Value of Data Portability
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.
Outside of healthcare, we understand and can accept that businesses used closed, proprietary IT as part of their business model. Apple has designed their […]
Could Google+ Be Your Platform for Care Coordination?
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 the question again: Could Google+ be your platform for care coordination? This post will
Describe Google+ and Circles
Discuss how Google+ gets past some of Facebook’s limitations as a […]
Lesson for Healthcare: Disrupt Your Own Business Model Before Someone Does it TO YOU
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 describes Netflix’ latest letter to shareholders and explains how the company is preparing for the demise of DVDs:
Part Deux: A Rebuttal to PHR Luddites
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 pharmacist to tailor the medicine to YOUR genetic profile.
Consider two possible scenarios of how this transaction might happen. You’re on the phone with your pharmacist:
1) “OK, […]
A Rebuttal to PHR Luddites
Unlike some of my colleagues, I’m not losing ANY sleep over whether personal health record (PHR) systems ultimately will be adopted and used by patients.
In my mind, the issue isn’t WHETHER, but WHEN.
Yes, I know that adoption has lagged and that surveys suggest 7% or less of the U.S. population has used a PHR.
Stay with me on this one for a minute. You’d have to have two underlying beliefs to conclude that PHR systems won’t eventually emerge:
That health record data will persist […]
Through the Lens of Disruptive Innovation: Why Direct is a Hit and PCAST is an Outcast
(click on the graphics to link to original sources)
Regular readers know that I find Professor Clay Christensen’s theory of disruptive innovation to be a useful lens to explain industry evolution. Let’s look at two recent health IT initiatives and see why one is working and the other is stalled.
Could Facebook Be Your Platform for Care Coordination?
My guess is you’ve probably never asked yourself this question. A quick preview:
Technical barriers aren’t the limiting factors to Facebook becoming a care coordination platform.
Facebook’s company DNA won’t play well in health care.
Could Facebook become the care coordination platform of the future? If not Facebook, then what?
1) Technical barriers aren’t the limiting factors to Facebook as a care coordination platform.
Can you imagine Facebook as a care coordination platform? I don’t think it’s much of a stretch. Facebook already has […]
List of Top 10 Health Plan Issues — Out of Whack!
Healthcare IT News just published its list of top issues for health plans in 2011:
Administrative Mandates (Compliance HIPAA 5010, ICD-10, etc.).
Care Management, Data Analytics, and Informatics.
Health Insurance Exchanges and Individual Markets.
New Provider Payment & Delivery Systems (ACOs, PCMHs, etc.).
Bend the Cost Trend.
Medicare and Medicaid.
Health Information Exchanges and EMRs.
Consumer’s Role in the Modernization of Healthcare.
Reform Uncertainties.
Payer/Provider Interoperability.
Dear health plan colleagues,
Wake up! The order of this list is totally out of whack.
#2: Care Management, Data Analytics, Informatics. Good…sounds about right.
However,
#2 can’t […]
A One in a Hundred Whitepaper: “Better to Best” Transcends PCMH, Care Coordination, Access, HIT, and ACO Payment Reform
Let me try to get you in the right frame of mind to read one of the most remarkable white papers in a long time: Better to BEST: Value Driving Elements of the Patient Centered Medical Home and Accountable Care Organizations — released yesterday by the Commonwealth Fund, Dartmouth Institute, and PCPCC.
Having been a debater in high school and then trained as a lawyer, my default mode of thinking is to be critical:
“Hey, Vince, how ya doin’? Great day isn’t […]