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The Business Case for Health Data Sharing
Day-by-day, the business case for data sharing is growing stronger. In this essay, I’ll describe how COVID-19 is accelerating existing healthcare trends, how data sharing is becoming a key business strategy, and how you can learn more about these developments.
COVID-19 Accelerates Existing Trends
This might surprise you — one result of COVID-19 isn’t so much a new normal as it is the acceleration of pre-existing trends. Andreasen Horowitz venture capitalist Julie Yoo wrote about this in her masterful article: Healthcare: The Great Unlock.
She lists […]
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’s Transformation into the “Pinnacle” Platform Industry
A “Platform Revolution” is sweeping America. Platforms like Google, Facebook, Amazon, Apple, and Airbnb are turning existing industries inside-out and creating new landscapes never yet dreamed of.
…but healthcare hasn’t been affected much…yet. Below, I’ll briefly explain:
Why healthcare has been slow to adopt platforms
What’s changing
Why in the long-run healthcare promises to become the pinnacle platform industry.
Read the rest of this story on Tincture…
If I Describe Your Company as the “Uber of Healthcare”, Don’t Take It as a Compliment. 7 Reasons Why.
I am constantly surprised by the number of companies that intentionally describe themselves as the “Uber of Healthcare”. If you hear me describing your company that way, I don’t mean it as a compliment. What I do mean is some combination of:
Your ethics and values are dubious
Your swashbuckling disregard for regulatory boundaries is backfiring
You underestimated the competition
Your network effects are overstated
Your platform governance model is Medieval
Your business model is unproven
Your valuation is inflated
Let’s take a more detailed look at each […]
MIT Platform Strategy Summit, Boston, July 10
Healthcare has been a laggard in adopting platforms…
…but that’s rapidly changing. In fact, I’ll suggest that healthcare will become the PINNACLE platform industry.
Why?
Many value propositions are very strong — literally “life-or-death”.
Acute and episodic care has focused on relatively discrete, time-limited events; the emerging model of chronic care and population health requires ongoing collaboration among care providers and patients.
Many of the value propositions of digital health are dependent upon development of interoperable platforms. For example, non-interoperable platforms would NOT work for:
The […]
7 Questions Are Shaping the Patient Digital Health Platform Ecosystem — HIN Article
My article “Seven Questions Shaping the Patient Digital Health Platform Ecosystem” is published in the February 2015 issue of Healthcare Innovation News.
You can download a copy of the article by clicking here.
Accompanying PowerPoint slides are available here.
PowerPoint — 7 Questions Shaping the Patient Digital Health Platform (PDHP) Ecosystem
I hope you’ll enjoy reviewing my slides from my December 3 presentation at the 11th Annual Healthcare Unbound Conference.
The presentation is formally entitled: “Patient Digital Health Platforms (PDHPs): Epicenter of Healthcare Transformation?”…
…but more informally, I pose and address 7 key questions — the answers to which will shape the future of the PDHP ecosystem. The answers aren’t all that clear yet because it’s very early and because most of the companies involved haven’t yet shared a lot of details about […]
Patient Digital Health Platforms…A First Take
This post was originally published on the HIMSS blog with the title “Patient Digital Health Platforms (PDHPs): An Epicenter of Healthcare Transformation?”
Apple’s recent announcement about its HealthKit platform is a beacon of a much bigger trend. We are at the early stages in the rise of a new business and IT ecosystem:
Patient Digital Health Platforms (PDHPs)
These new platforms should be high on the radar screens of healthcare providers. While v1.0 of PDHPs is starting fairly narrow, companies will be highly […]
Healthcare Unbound PowerPoint Presentation: “Replatforming Healthcare”
The Rules are changing. Eight new rules are guiding healthcare disruptors…