A deep dive into the challenges of aligning the current thinking of the healthcare business with the underline economic models and incentives within. In The Innovator's Prescription, Clayton Christensen identifies one of the core problems in healthcare delivery: a mix of intertwined business models that create massive operational overhead and inefficiency. He describes three distinct business models in hospitals.
Healthcare's 3 Distinct Business Models
1) Diagnostics and non-linear
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3 Facts Proving The Future of Google Glass in Healthcare is Brighter Than Ever
There have been tons of recent reports and op-eds following recent announcements from Google about the changes to the Glass program. Unfortunately, much of the reporting has been misleading. Let's start by getting the facts straight, then consider what's next for Glass. Facts: 1) Glass is “graduating” from Google[x], the company’s research division, and becoming a full-fledged business unit within Google proper. 2) The new business unit will be overseen by Tony Fadell, who led the iPod
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Can Life Sciences Companies Evolve to Accountable Care?
Healthcare providers continue to assume increasing amounts of risk in care delivery. This has major implications, not just for providers and patients, but also vendors in IT, diagnostics, therapeutics and devices. If providers assume risk, why shouldn't their vendors? We're already seeing this to some extent in emerging health IT companies. Most health IT innovation discussions revolve around driving value through population health, big data analytics and patient engagement. But many of these
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Google Glass in Healthcare Is Here to Stay
Kyle Samani of Pristine shares his insights on the state of Google Glass in healthcare and why its demise is an exaggeration. In the past couple of weeks, a number of press outlets have announced what is amounting to the death of Google Glass (see here and here, for example). These reports cite lack of consumer adoption and the fact that consumer-facing software companies (i.e. Twitter) have dropped support for Glass. Following this logic, Glass must be just as dead for professionals
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