Key for Health IT Entrepreneurs: Don’t Disrupt the Wrong Thing
The crucial advice from two of the savviest digerati doctors in Silicon Valley can be summed up this way: disrupt medicine without disrupting the lives of those who practice it.
Health Datapalooza: A Shot of Whiskey, a “Data Hippie” and Capitalism
Health Datapalooza is dedicated to transforming American medicine. But despite talk of “data liberation” and “health data hippies,” the success of the open data movement is a direct result of a synergistic relationship between government and capitalism…
Health Datapalooza: A Shot of Whiskey, A “Data Hippie” And Capitalism
Health Datapalooza is dedicated to transforming American medicine. But despite talk of “data liberation” and “health data hippies,” the success of the open data movement is a direct result of a synergistic relationship between government and capitalism…
Parsing Patient Engagement: Better Compliance or Better Decisions?
“Better compliance” and “better patient decisions” can certainly co-exist in health IT, but there’s also an implicit tension: What happens if the shared decision making bucks what the doctor thinks best?
Parsing Patient Engagement: Better Compliance Or Better Decisions?
“Better compliance” and “better patient decisions” can certainly co-exist in health IT, but there’s also an implicit tension: What happens if the shared decision making bucks what the doctor thinks best?
Profits, A Prophet And World Peace Through Health IT (Maybe)
The makers of missiles and of farm products, of attack planes and baby strollers all want a part of the health IT action. Profits, not a prophet, as motivation — but maybe “world peace,” anyway.
Profits, a Prophet and World Peace through Health IT (Maybe)
The makers of missiles and of farm products, of attack planes and baby strollers all want a part of the health IT action. Profits, not a prophet, as motivation — but maybe “world peace,” anyway.
The Fate Of The MD In The $12 Million Patient Safety Scandal
Dr. Charles Denham, a physician-turned-entrepreneur-and-activist, has agreed to pay $1 million to settle government charges of taking a $12 million kickback to influence a national patient safety standard in favor of one company’s product. Though the l…
The Fate Of The MD In The $12 Million Patient Safety Scandal
Dr. Charles Denham, a physician-turned-entrepreneur-and-activist, has agreed to pay $1 million to settle government charges of taking a $12 million kickback to influence a national patient safety standard in favor of one company’s product. Though the l…
How Mayo’s “Dr. Google” Deal Disrupts Medicine
The deal to produce clinical summaries under the Mayo Clinic name for Google searches symbolizes the medical priesthood’s acceptance that information technology has reshaped the doctor-patient relationship. More disruptions are already on the way.