Healthcare Innovation by Design

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.

SPLASH: Population level Data-Based Healthcare by smarterplanet

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One of the most emotion-fraught scenes in Precious, the highly-regarded 2009 film, takes place when the protagonist, an overweight, illiterate, 16-year-old…

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.

IBM Almaden Institute 2010: Smarter Healthcare Through Modeling and Simulation

Eleven million cancer patients.  Twenty five thousand in clinical trials (less than 0.3%).  The data (and potential learning) from 10,975,000 cancer patients is lost forever.  (Skip intro by going to 6 minutes and 45 seconds)

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The Tale of Mount Sinai Hospital & The Apple iPhone by Joe Heinowski

While many many software and hardware companies are showing progress, there’s also the problem that the big EHR providers, like Cerner and Epic Systems, have yet to build applications for these platforms. 

An early example, Citrix’s new iPhone simulator app that would allow health practitioners to access Windows based applications like EHR’s developed by Cerner. A good start but not necessarily leveraging the mobile platform to the best of its ability.