Do tech giants need to think bigger about healthcare interoperability?
To help address social determinants of health, companies pledging to drive frictionless data-sharing within healthcare need to do so across sectors, too.
Aug 30, 2018
Topics: Interoperability
Apple’s EHR: Why health records on your iPhone is only the beginning
Being able to carry your health records on your phone is great, but the underlying standardization that makes it possible positions it as merely the tip of the iceberg for innovation.
Feb 26, 2018
How to make software eat healthcare faster
Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and Internet healthcare pundits have boldly claimed that “software will eat healthcare.” Over the past thirty years software has “eaten” a lot […]
Feb 18, 2016
How healthcare can prepare for a consumer-driven future
Hospitals systems mergers and acquisitions happened at a blistering pace in 2015. It’s largely in response to uncertainty and the ultimatum to lower costs. Tom Baldosaro, CFO […]
Feb 8, 2016
How telemedicine disrupts health care
Telemedicine has a myriad of applications. The most interesting of these applications challenge the status quo – they could be disruptive models that create greater […]
May 5, 2015
Health care needs its Gutenberg press
Once again, the fate of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is on the line. The Supreme Court is currently hearing oral arguments in the King […]
Mar 13, 2015
Independent PCPs can survive—if they move upmarket
Primary care physicians (PCPs) face tremendous pressures along the frontlines of the US health care system. Amid escalating warnings from the AMA and others about […]
Mar 10, 2015
Who is to blame for Healthcare.gov? (Hint: The Initials are RPV)
Who botched Healthcare.gov? The contractors, politicians, and president all claim that they are not responsible – and they are all right. Forcing a new idea […]
Oct 29, 2013
When will plug and play medical devices and data be a reality?
Last week Bakul Patel, an FDA senior policy advisor, highlighted the agency’s recent move to issue voluntary interoperability standards for medical devices. The changes include […]
Aug 15, 2013
Why EHRs are not (yet) disruptive
Devin Bean, a research assistant at the Clayton Christensen Institute, and I coauthored this piece. In 2005, Rand Corporation projected widespread use of electronic health records (EHRs) […]
Aug 8, 2013