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Accountable Care is Healthcare’s New OS: Now What?
In my last post, I made the analogy that Accountable Care and value-based payment models are doing what Microsoft did in the 80s, creating a new “OS” that simplifies care delivery, creating a platform...
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Healthcare’s New OS: Creation Spaces Built on Trust are The Key
I’ve made the case in recent posts that Accountable Care is like installing a new OS. It changes the rules for how resources are allocated, shifting control away from the system itself and more toward...
View ArticlePreparing for the Next Decade of Health IT at the ONC
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) held it’s Annual Meeting in Washington, DC, on January 23, 2014. This marked the 10th year of the ONC, and the fifth since...
View ArticleA New Era of Value-Driven Pharmaceuticals
This article was co-authored with Cyndy Nayer. At the end of March the American College of Cardiology (ACC) and the American Heart Association (AHA) issued a joint statement saying they “will begin to...
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Patient Satisfaction: Who’s Paying the Price for Happy Patients?
“Happy cows come from California,” or so the saying goes. But where do happy patients come from? Wisconsin. At least that’s what a 2013 post said on NPR’s Shots blog, that looked at Medicare...
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Using Incentives to Move from Health Care to Health: Interview with Michael...
In moving from healthcare to health, consumers and patients must be enabled to make healthier, more cost-effective choices. A large part of success may be determined by how we develop incentives to...
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Healthcare’s ‘Cobra Effect’
During a recent #HITsm chat, Don Lee mentioned “the cobra effect.” It was a term I hadn’t heard before and loved reading about the history of the term in Wikipedia: “The cobra effect originated at the...
View ArticleVideo interview with Dr. Farzad Mostashari: Health data ownership, precision...
Recorded at HIMSS16 for HealthIT.tv.
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Spring grab bag: 3 clinical health tech topics to consider
Despite the snow last week in Boston, the calendar tells me we’re now in Q2. It’s been a busy year already: the first wave of conferences is behind us, we’ve heard some interesting news from Apple,...
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Tea leaves and ginger: What does success mean for a digital health startup?
What does success mean for a digital health startup? Ginger.Io was one of the forerunners of the digital health movement and a pioneer in behavioral health care tech. They built the first successful...
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