Back in December 2009, I was the closing keynote speaker for the 4th Annual WorldHealthCare Innovation & Technology Congress. I challenged the audience to think about the massive transformation that is set to occur in the next 20 years.
People often overestimate the change that will occur in the short term, and underestimate what […]
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There also was a presentation by Dr. Don Yansen of Click Health. Click Health is pioneering the use of cell phone cameras in telehealth. Basically, community care workers could use cell phones cameras to send pictures over the internet to doctors for diagnosis. The intent is to leverage the internet […]
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The second discussion focused on Healthcare IT Infrastructure (and I hope that I can capture everything that was discussed). The host of the discussion Dr. William Winkenwerder expressed the role of Health IT infrastructure well. He called local Health IT the “muscles” of the system and the infrastructure as the “nervous […]
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The first discussion panel of the day focused on prevention. The panelists included Dr. Will Cavendish (NHS_UK), ADM Bradley Perkins (CDC) and Cory Billotti (DOW). ADM Perkins discussed Health IT. The Alliance to Make U.S. Healthiest of which the CDC is a partner has as one of its tenets: to […]
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It sure looks that way. Ms. Sebelius’ nomination as Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) has been delayed.
Sun Tzu had a dim view of obvious frontal attacks. Rather, he favored flexibility, deception, deflection, feinting, leverage and delaying any attacks until the time was right. General Tzu’s opponents knew an apparent lack of […]
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A report published in the San Diego Business Journal this week said that Qualcomm and Scripps Health announced plans for an institute dedicated to improving health care using wireless technologies. The center will be funded initially by a $45 million grant from the Gary and Mary West Foundation, and take the name West […]
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It seems that the stimulus is starting to take effect. Walmart is now offering a simplified EMR system in conjunction with Dell and EClinical works. For $25K, a small practice can get the EMR system and maintenance for about $8000. (Check out this NY Times article: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/11/business/11record.html?em) For $44K, a […]
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Jeffrey Rice, MD, JD, trained at Duke University as a radiologist, but while still in residency his career took an atypical turn. Rice got involved in the project of linking the Duke University Health System with an insurance company to put together a managed healthcare plan.
That experience caused Rice to become interested ways […]
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The Keynote Speaker this year at the Visa Prepaid Card Forum was William Taylor, Founding Editor of Fast Company Magazine and author of the current best selling business book, Mavericks at Work; Why the Most Creative Business Minds Win, about 32 businesses that have broken the mold to find success.
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This is the second post in my occasional series in the use of social media by health plans to engage their members to become healthier and better consumers of health care services. By social media, I am referring to activities that integrate technology, telecommunications and social interaction, and the construction of words, pictures, […]
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