Healthcare Innovation by Design

In Search of a Simple Healthcare System

In this TED talk, George Whitesides argues that simple things are:

•   Reliable/Predictable
•   Cheap
•   High Performance (=value/cost)
•   Easily used as building blocks of more complex things

How can we simplify the healthcare system using that definition?  The talk offers one example.

Design Principles: The Profound Lessons of Building Marshmallow Towers

•   Learn by doing
•   Work in parallel
•   Be first to market
•   Iterate
•   Respect resource constraints

Some more lessons:

•   Don’t involve your CEO
•   If you have to involve the CEO, include the admin assistant
•   Convince HR to hire a few KG grads

Learn more at the Marshmallow Challenge  

A Three Minute Recipe to Starting a Movement

The secret: don’t be afraid of appearing foolish and find similarly-minded others.

Getting the Expriencing and Reflective Selves to Take Care of Themselves

Daniel Kahneman (winner of Nobel prize in Economics for his pioneering work in behavioral economics) talks about our two selves: the expriencing and the remembering (reflective).  Preventive and chronic care expriences are no fun for either self for the most part.  Is it surprising that the physical self isn’t getting the care (s)he needs until it is too late?

Priesthood Healthcare Under Siege

Healthcare transformation is coming.  Epicenter: Silicon Valley (not Washington DC).  Fuel: Innovation (not legislation).