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Is it time for consumer data go mainstream in healthcare?
Enterprises value demographic and lifestyle data on consumers more than any other form of data. Consumer data use in healthcare enterprises must overcome a few challenges first.
How healthcare can overcome the risk and costs of harnessing digital health innovation
The declining funding rates for early-stage digital health startups is curiously at odds with the burning desire in healthcare enterprises to drive technology-led innovation and accelerate digital transformation.
The great conundrum of data liquidity in healthcare
A new HHS ruling aims to push healthcare towards greater data interoperability. However, data liquidity will face a host of challenges.
Healthcare IT’s ‘Lord of the Rings’ problem
A recent report by the AHA highlights the progress with interoperability and the challenges ahead. However, it leaves us with nagging doubts about the pace of progress and whether we are addressing interoperability challenges...
Price of entry or corporate strategy: how pharma and biotech are approaching digital health
Eliminating friction and creating value are driving investments in digital health in the pharma/ biotech sector. However, the value drivers are unique to the sector.
Healthcare technology markets: 5 predictions for 2019
Digital transformation is gaining momentum; however healthcare enterprises will proceed cautiously.
The battle of the health clouds
Several large tech firms have launched health clouds to tap into the burgeoning digital health ecosystem. However, the health cloud value proposition may not be entirely clear at this time.
National Health IT week 2018: 3 trends that will drive the future of technology in healthcare
It is National Health IT week. Three significant technology trends will drive healthcare’s digital transformation.
Digital health investments: between a rock and a ‘kill zone’
Even with high levels of VC funding, startups can face a number of “kill zones” where innovators can be put out of business simply by being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Digital health startups need a “moat.”
Why big tech firms are going after the primary care experience
Think Amazon Prime for healthcare (without a return policy). However, it’s complicated.
What my backyard squirrel taught me about technical debt
The squirrel is a metaphor for technical debt that gobbles up the vast majority of healthcare IT budgets today.
Digital transformation and the law of small numbers
Recent studies indicate a slowdown in the shift to value-based care and a struggle to reap the benefits of digital transformation. The answer may lie in understanding the law of small numbers.
No dilemma for innovators in healthcare
Despite the slow pace of adoption for new technology-enabled solutions, there is an unprecedented opportunity today in healthcare’s digital transformation today. Innovators need to operate with an abundance mindset.
Digital health’s last mile problem
The digital health landscape suffers from a highly fragmented ecosystem of point solutions and a surfeit of big technology firms with no real solutions to deploy with speed and scale. However, there are a few ways to address the...
How blockchain can address the two biggest challenges in healthcare IT
The potential for blockchain to improve healthcare operating efficiencies is significant. The recent spate of blockchain initiatives in healthcare has to demonstrate tangible benefits before we can see significant change in adoption...
Who ‘owns’ the healthcare consumer of the future?
How the ongoing M&A scramble and the frantic pace of digitalization of healthcare are reshaping traditional relationships between healthcare consumers and providers.
Up, down or out? Perspectives on artificial intelligence in health care today
There are several high-value applications for artificial intelligence in health care. Challenges with underlying data sources and new ethical concerns have emerged as significant factors driving adoption.
3 takeaways from HIMSSanity in Las Vegas
Another annual ritual of networking, hyperbole and celebration comes to a close for the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS). The bottom line is that health care IT remains an exciting place to be.
Amazon in healthcare: disruption in motion or a nothing-burger?
Amazon’s announcement needs to be seen in the light of fundamental changes underway in how health care is purchased and delivered and the one thing it may have going for itself.
Apple and the democratization of patient health records
Apple’s new announcement last week is not just about their entry into the EHR market. It’s the beginning of the democratization of personal health records.
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