Would you like your medicine waiting for you at your door when you arrive home from surgery? Amazon may not only be delivering your goods and groceries, but also prescription medicines. Amazon is starting to make more concerted moves towards the multibillion dollar pharmacy ...
Diagnosis Overkill: How to do more about doing less?
This is the final post of a five-part series titled “Diagnosis Overkill.” “It isn’t enough to eliminate unnecessary care. It has to be replaced with necessary care.” – Dr. Atul Gawande Given the forces of business, technology, and science that are expanding medical ...
Diagnosis Overkill: Diagnosis genomics will break the medical diagnosis
This is the fourth installment of a five-part series titled “Diagnosis Overkill.” Genomic sequencing is playing a growing role in genetic sequencing for research and drug development. Today, patient testing is generally reserved for those who have already had a preliminary ...
Diagnosis Overkill: Chatbots and the diagnosis democracy
This is the third installment of a five-part series titled “Diagnosis Overkill.” Dr. Jay Parkinson of Sherpaa recently weighed in on the medical chatbot and the slow but steady automation of primary care. He notes the value proposition in deploying bot technology to do things ...
Diagnosis Overkill: Understanding overdiagnosis
This is the second installment of a five-part series titled “Diagnosis Overkill.” Why are so many Americans getting diagnosed and treated inappropriately in the first place? Dr. Hardeep Singh, a leading researcher in this space, breaks down how the process of diagnosing a ...
Diagnosis Overkill: Consumerism, bots, genomics, and the overtreatment epidemic
This is the first of a five-part series titled “Diagnosis Overkill.” Business and technology trends are disrupting the medical diagnosis as we know it. “Virtually every family in the country, the research indicates, has been subject to overtesting and overtreatment in one ...
Springing up: Five digital health developments to follow
For those of us who spend our professional lives in healthcare, the last few months have provided more harrowing drama than the last season of Game of Thrones. And it feels like despite the GOP’s initial failure to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, we haven’t yet seen ...
Data liquidity: Interoperability is the future of healthcare
Why interoperability is the future of healthcare "The common thread to satisfying consumers and enabling advanced data analytics and seamless care coordination is interoperability. Interoperability is the ability of devices and systems to exchange and use electronic ...
From the CIO: Want to make your organization change? Start with yourself first
To a large extent, personal growth depends on embracing opportunities for learning and discovery, whether that be through meeting new people, experiencing new things, or thinking in radically different ways than you're accustomed to. While it might be much more comfortable to go ...
Can AI in health IT save lives, yet simultaneously ruin your career?
Who is accountable when a self-driving vehicle gets into an accident? As automakers scramble to bring new and innovative autonomous vehicles and features to market, the legal world remains unprepared for robots to take over the roads. “Autonomous” isn’t even clearly defined ...
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