Adam Bluestein, Fast Company
“The average auto refractor–that clunky-looking device eye doctors use to pinpoint your prescription–weighs about 40 pounds, costs $10,000, and is virtually impossible to find in a rural village in the developing world. As a result, some half a billion people are living with vision problems, which make it tough to read and work.
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Stephen C. Schimpff, KevinMD
“Incredible innovative and entrepreneurial skills have led to many new techniques and technologies in medicine. Some are both disruptive of the old way of doing things. Others are transformational. Over the next few weeks I will review some of those that I believe are among the most disruptive and transformational.
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Kent Bottles, KevinMD
“The digital age has had a deep and likely permanent effect on the patient-physician relationship. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve had physicians beg me to provide them with a way to stop their patients from Googling their symptoms and diagnosing themselves before their first office visit and much to their chagrin, my answer is always the same, “You can’t stop them. Get over it.”
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Justine Cadet, CMIO
“If we simplify the problem, we simplify the development of solutions,” said Clayton M. Christensen, MBA, the Robert and Jane Cizik Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. He spoke Oct. 26 at CHIME11, the Fall CIO Forum.
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Dave Chase, Huffington Post
“Health 2.0 just had its largest ever event, with 50 percent more attendees than their previous largest event. A number of companies launched during the conference, but like many events, the most interesting activity wasn’t what happened on the main stage but the many side meetings/events that took place.
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Eric Wicklund, Healthcare IT News
“When all is said and done, the advancement of telehealth and mobile health in the United States will be accomplished through the percolation of innovation.
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Francine Hardaway, Fast Company
“As the last of the large American industries to undergo forcible automation, healthcare is currently in a state of prolonged agony. The HealthTech NextGen 2011 Conference, held in San Francisco recently, highlighted this by calling attention to at least 6 disruptive changes that are still ahead in healthcare.
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Yellowlees P et al, Telemedicine and e-Health, 17(3)
The traditional face-to-face doctor-patient relationship is the core of conventional medical practice. One key aspect of this changing relationship is the increasing dependency on asynchronous data collection in clinical consultations. Such electronic communications and data streams may be numeric, text-based, audio, digitized still pictures, video and radiologic, as well as emanating from multiple medical devices. While asynchronous medicine may be established in specialties like radiology and dermatology, there is little research regarding the use of asynchronous medicine in areas of medicine that traditionally rely on the physical doctor-patient interaction such as primary care, internal medicine, geriatrics, and psychiatry.
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Vince Kuraitis, e-CareManagement
“Regular readers know that I find Professor Clay Christen’s theory of disruptive innovation to be a useful lens to explain industry evolution.
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Mark Frisse, Health Affairs Blog
“Dr. David Blumenthal’s tenure at the Office for the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) is without precedent. Never in American history has the public experienced such an aggressive and deliberate effort to introduce health information technology (HIT) into clinical settings with such a deliberate goal of producing a safer, more efficient, more reliable, and more effective health care delivery system.
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John Moore, Chilmark Research
“Been attending the mHealth Summit for the last 3 days and an over-arching theme has been:
mHealth is unlikely to ever become a market in its own right.
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Joseph Kvedar, The cHealth Blog
“Two pieces in Sunday’s paper got me to thinking. The first, in the Sunday Globe Magazine was by Douglas S. Brown, Vice President at UMass Memorial Health Care in Worchester, MA. This interesting piece resonated with me in that it speaks of how the U.S. healthcare system, at all levels, has displayed arrogance and disinterest when faced with the reality that we provide low value healthcare compared to most other industrialized countries.
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KevinMD
“Electronic medical records are being aggressively pushed by the government.
As most know, they’re pouring billions of dollars into the initiative, hoping the spur adoption among doctors and hospitals.
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Dave deBronkart, Vince Kuraitis, David C. Kibbe, e-CareManagement
“So far this series has looked at HITECH participation by hospitals (grumbling but in the game) and physicians (wary, on the sidelines), kudos for ONC’s three major policy points, and how HITECH is already moving the needle on the vendor side. Today we’re going to look at the reason the whole system exists: patients.
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Health Imaging
“The use of health IT to reduce rehospitalizations will be welcome but also disruptive, said Stephen Jencks, independent consultant in healthcare safety during a Feb. 24 Webinar on the potential use of health IT to mitigate rehospitalizations, sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).
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Robert Connely, The HIE Blog
“I believe that meaningful use (MU) and the continued advances in technology will usher in a wave of disruptive innovations that will ultimately have a significant impact on healthcare costs and quality. MU sets the stage by expanding the definition of an EHR to include modular applications designed to create, maintain, and exchange a limited, standardized data set.
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“The debates about health care are in the minds of every citizen in the United States: rich or poor, urban or rural, young or old. The subject is so personal that it gives rise to real passion on all sides.
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Richard Reece, KevinMD.com
“There’s no question the deck is stacked against primary care. Its rates are too low, its hours too long, and its prestige too lagging.
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Patty Enrado, Healthcare IT News
“Physicians have limited knowledge of the American Recovery and Reinvestment provisions, according to a recent online survey of 1,001 physicians, and they are still reluctant to adopt information technology.
Ingenix, a healthcare IT company and consulting firm, is under the umbrella of UnitedHealth Group, conducted the survey.
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Glenn Laffel, EHR Bloggers
“Earlier posts in this series suggested that EHRs and social media have had a large impact on medicine. It does not necessarily follow however, that medical education processes should be modified to account for them. After all, thousands of technologies have disseminated into the medical mainstream, and the system seems to have accommodated them organically.
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