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Expertise in Platform Strategy & Business Models

The Future of Platforms in Healthcare — Updated PowerPoint

July 18, 2012

by Vince Kuraitis and Shahid Shah

We are pleased to offer you our updated perspectives on the future of platforms in healthcare.

Click here for a copy of our joint presentation at the 9th Annual Healthcare Unbound Conference. This is an update from our earlier joint presentation at the eCollaboration Forum as part of HIMSS 12.

What’s different in the marketplace over the past few months? Three key observations:

1) The trend toward platform adoption is accelerating and becoming more clearly understood. The requirements of Stage […]

Platform Failure and Success: Lessons from Outside Healthcare

February 16, 2012

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 […]

“Platforms” for Accountable Care, a “Must Have”, Not Just a “Nice to Have”

January 18, 2012

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 — […]

Platform Wars!

July 12, 2011

Click here or on the graphic to download a copy of my July 11 presentation from this year’s Healthcare Unbound conference.

Could Google+ Be Your Platform for Care Coordination?

July 4, 2011

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 […]

Could Facebook Be Your Platform for Care Coordination?

April 9, 2011

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 […]

10 Reasons Why an Open IT Platform Strategy is the Right Long-Term Choice for an ACO

February 9, 2011

Many Physicians and Clinical Service Providers Will Not Be In Your ACO Contracting Network.
Expect Significant Patient Leakage (Migration) Out of Your ACO Network
Expect Patient Demands for Sharing Records.
Minimize Anti-Trust Concerns.
Expect Continuing Government Pressure for Broad Data Exchange.

Will ACO IT Models Be Walled Gardens or Open Platforms?

December 15, 2010

Will ACO (accountable care organization) IT models be walled gardens or open platforms?  i.e., will ACO IT platforms focus on exchanging information within the provider network of the ACO, or will they also be able to exchange information with providers outside the ACO network? (If the question still isn’t clear, click here for a further explanation.).