Month: April 2010
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Disruptive changes coming to medical care?
Over at HBR.org, there’s an interesting post titled “Disruptive changes are coming to the delivery of medical care” by Stephen C Schimpff based on his book titled “The future of medicine: Megatrends in health care that will improve your quality of life“. In this post, Schimpff highlights the following areas that might significantly affect delivery…
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[article] Evaluating the value and impact of an electronic health record in a complex health system
An interesting article from ElectronicHealthCare titled “Evaluating the value and impact of an electronic health record in a complex health system“. ABSTRACT: NetCARE is Canada’s first region-wide electronic health record (EHR) (Hospital News 2004). It is a clinical, web-based, view-only record of an individual’s key health information drawn from multiple sources. NetCARE is available in…
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Scientific American profiles 10 mobile health apps on the iPhone
Scientific American has a short video titled “Mobile Medicine” which highlights a few mobile apps on the iPhone. According to the video, medical apps are one of the fastest growing areas for development, with over 2000 applications and growing.
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Health care is not immune from innovation making jobs obsolete
An interesting report from NPR.org, titled “The jobs of yesteryear: Obsolete occupations” got me thinking about what health care will look like in 10, 20, and 30 years from today. In the article/slideshow, several occupations are shown to be obsolete because they are no longer relevant due innovation. What all of these jobs had in…
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Twitter is not a good source for health advice
A recent article published in the American Journal of Infection Control [1] titled “Dissemination of health information through social networks: Twitter and antibiotics” [link to abstract] demonstrates how social networks, specifically Twitter, is being used to share health information on the web. In this case, Twitter was a great conduit to share health information, but…
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HBR: Turning doctors into leaders
A very interesting article from Harvard Business Review titled “Turning doctors into leaders” by Thomas H. Lee. Lee explains some of the challenges in health care and offers some potential solutions. I get the sense that the main thrust of the article is that for physicians to let go of the notion that leadership is…
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Who is health care’s Steve Jobs?
With all of the hype surrounding the release of Apple’s iPad, I came across an interesting post on CNN titled “the iPad and the failings of the computer industry“. It’s an interesting view on an apparent lack of visionary, inspirational leadership in the computer industry. The author wonders why no other computer company, let along…