A new report from Accenture highlights five major trends in digital health, and one may surprise you. The report, Digital Health Technology Vision 2017, looks at how innovations in artificial intelligence (AI), internet of things (IOT), mobility, blockchain and the cloud are all ...
Medical device security: More questions than answers for healthcare CIOs
Pacemakers that suddenly quit working; medication pumps that push too much or not enough dosage; electronic breaches that let bad guys prowl around undetected in your network so they can pillage confidential patient and financial data — these are the concerns that keep medical ...
Will web APIs and HL7 FHIR change our views on data interoperability?
Classic HL7 interfaces are being augmented by APIs and HL7 FHIR: Are you ready? The above tagline accompanied a LinkedIn ad for an upcoming webinar (July 19 and 20) hosted by Corepoint Health, the title sponsor of this blog. Register for the free webinar. APIs are nothing ...
Reinventing physician credentialing with blockchain
Co-authored with Bill Wellman, adjunct faculty at Harvard University, where he teaches courses on innovation, entrepreneurship, and blockchain. This is part of a series examining how blockchain technology could be applied in the healthcare industry. Healthcare ...
Alt-currency in healthcare: Gold rush or fool’s gold?
The rise of alt-currencies in 2017 Bitcoin and other digital currencies have been exploding in 2017. On June 11th, Bitcoin crossed the $3,000 mark for the first time in history, according to the CoinDesk Bitcoin Price Index (BPI), before dropping 10 percent the following ...
Access and allies: The war over healthcare
I often wonder where the fight is more contentious: the one raging inside, or the one outside the healthcare system? The way that we talk about healthcare almost everywhere is remarkably zero-sum; it seems none of the stakeholders can conceive of the future of the system in a ...
Human risk in cybersecurity: The enemy within
Cyberattacks are in the news daily. Often the headlines sound alarms about hacktivists or hackers from across the globe, but shocking headlines overlook a key statistic: according to a 2016 report published by IBM (registration required), up to 60% of all cyberattacks result, ...
Why it could be prime time for Amazon to enter the pharmacy market
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 ...
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