The healthcare industry is suffering from a chronic disease. Like our immune systems responding to illness, stress and poor lifestyle choices, healthcare is responding to countless attacks from changing consumer behavior, regulation, technological innovations and costly vendor lock-ins. We have progressed beyond a simple infection to a full-blown autoimmune response. All our good intentions are actually destroying […]
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Health IT Must Adapt to its Users
Change is hard – but we often make it harder than it has to be. The healthcare industry is in the middle of tremendous change: regulatory change, biotech advances, technology refresh, and changing customer expectations about convenience and access. And through all this change, new competitors to traditional care delivery models are springing up every day – […]
Effective Communication Can Save Healthcare
This past week the Clinton Foundation held its Health Matters Activation Summit. Key to the discussion was the importance of communication and community. Mobihealth News also reported on the Summit talking about the communications theme and the need for simple solutions to improve communications (versus digital health technology for technology’s sake) and it’s importance to improving health outcomes. […]