The global market for healthcare innovation is highlighted in this recent McKinsey Quarterly article. Some of the strategies identified are:
Worth the read.
Join the discussion at Healthcare Innovation by Design Linkedin Group.Disruptively Innovating Healthcare by Clayton Christensen
The only way to make healthcare more affordable is by driving care to lower cost venues (hospitals to outpatient to offices to homes) and provided by lower cost care-providers (specialists to primary care to midlevel providers to nurses to selfcare).
The complexity and fragmentation of healthcare has exceeded the capability of human mind to coordinate it. Electronic medical records are our only chance of coordinating current and future healthcare.
Disruptive technologies will drive the decentralization of healthcare. For example, handheld ultrasound devices are bringing to primary care a level of sophisticated imaging only available in imaging centers and hospitals currently.
See more big ideas by Clayton Christensen on BigThinkers.
Waste: The Biggest Healthcare Design Opportunity
David Cutler, Harvard economist and senior healthcare advisor to the Obama campaign, discusses the three biggest waste areas in healthcare:
Can the workflow and care waste areas be reframed as future design opportunities (or current design failures)?
If you even suspected that the iPad is a transformative innovation checkout Vooks. Hopefully the EMR equivalent isn’t far behind.
For some books this will be a perk but for others it will take the content to a totally new experience space (follow the link and view the trailer).
Join the discussion at Healthcare Innovation by Design Linkedin Group.Healthcare Innovation Moving into the Mainstream
Maria Bartiromo talks to Arthur Caplan, Director of UPenn Center of Bioethics, Tim Brown, CEO of IDEO and Steven Nissen, Chairman of Cardiovascular Medicine at the Cleveland Clinic. A very broad spectrum of issues covered including informatics, genomics, wellness incentive programs,…
