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6 Major Disruptions Still To Come In Healthcare ! (by @fastcompany)
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As the last of the large American industries to undergo forcible automation, healthcare is currently in a state of prolonged agony. The HealthTech NextGen 2011 Conference, held in San Francisco recently, highlighted this by calling attention to at least 6 disruptive changes that are still ahead in healthcare. These range from physician workflow to patient responsibility, to...
What are the six forces that affect innovation in healthcare ?
The Forces Affecting Innovation in Healthcare The six forces—industry players, funding, public policy, technology, customers, and accountability—can help or hinder efforts at innovation. Individually or in combination, the forces will affect the three types of innovation in different ways. Players. The health care sector has many stakeholders, each with an agenda. Often, these players have substantial...
The Trouble with Treating Patients as Consumers (Harvard Business Review)
To be a patient today is to be treated as a consumer. But treating patients as typical proactive, in control, well-informed consumers can backfire. Asked to take on increasingly complex decisions and digest ever-larger amounts of information, patients find themselves placed — often by design — in the driver’s seat. High-deductible insurance plans aspire to...
Ten Ways Small Businesses Can Lower Healthcare Costs (And Hire More People) in 2012 by Rob Lynch
1. Pool together with others for healthcare.The greater the number, the lower the cost. While it may seem like a tedious exercise, check out nearby employers and ask them if they’d like to go in on an insurance plan together. See if your regional industry association will help hook you up with others in the...
How innovation could transform Health Care? (by @fboermeester on @healthstartup ))
Innovation is a wonderful phenomenon. It leads to all sorts of astonishing products and services like the internet and the tablet PC. As big an impact these innovations have on our lives, it is in health care that innovation is of existential importance. To be blunt, innovation in health care matters because most of us...
iPhone app works with docking monitors to visualize users’ health
VitaDock is a free iPhone app that works with docking monitors to help users visualize and manage their overall health. Mobile technologies are playing a growing role in the management and monitoring of consumer health, and just in the last few months we’ve seen innovations launched to help diagnose infertility, HIV, melanoma andmalaria, to name just a few examples....
How Cleveland Clinic provides highest-quality care at costs well below the US norm, according to its CEO, the heart surgeon, Delos Cosgrove ?
Cleveland Clinic chief on the business of health (Fortune Magazine) — Health-care reformers should study up on the Cleveland Clinic, and they know it. President Obama, who toured the clinic last July, has praised it for providing “the highest-quality care at costs well below the national norm.” It’s easy to be impressed: The clinic is...
Let a Thousand Free Markets Bloom
The Center for Health Market Innovations has identified more than 1,000 (mainly private sector) programs in 108 lower and middle income countries. They include: Primary Care Clinic Chains… often for-profit—are set up to standardize quality and give low-income people more care options. Many chains operate in urban areas where large volumes can help them keep prices down. Inspired by...
Wal-Mart Care
Can Wal-Mart provide us with health care as efficiently as it furnishes us with paper towels? According to a Kaiser Health News report: Wal-Mart — the nation’s largest retailer and biggest private employer — now wants to dominate a growing part of the health care market, offering a range of medical services from basic prevention to...
11 Innovative Healthcare Startups to Watch in US
Careticker is the world’s first platform that helps patients plan in advance for a hospital or outpatient procedure. (Miami, FL) EyeNetra is one of the most affordable mobile eye diagnostic ever developed, allowing anyone to take their own eye test, get a prescription for glasses, and connect to eye-care providers all on a mobile phone. (Cambridge, MA)...
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