Category: analysis
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Health care leads in wireless adoption
Now here’s an absolute surprise: health care is a leader in adopting wireless technology! Computerworld.com’s special report on “Mobile & Wireless” has an in-depth article on the use of wireless technology in health care. The article presents findings of a survey by market research firm IDC conducted in 2004. IDC found that “more than 80%…
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"Open source" for the masses? A report on open source
Here’s an online resource that I forgot to write about. This report is titled “Wide Open: Open source methods and their future potential“. It’s freely available in electronic format. I haven’t read the entire report in detail, but here’s the gist. The authors believe that “open source” methods, which have been successful in the software…
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eHealth and rural communities: Can eHealth keep hospitals from closing?
We keep talking about how eHealth will bring about benefits to the health care system by making it more efficient and effective, but I wonder if there isn’t a significant western, urban “group think”, or even myopic view at play here. In my (limited) dealings with health care issues concerning northern and rural parts of…
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Changing and challenging futures for eHealth companies
Two recent articles suggest that the times are a changin’ for software companies (and eHealth companies too). The two articles are: “Execs Tell Software Makers: ‘Some of You Are Doomed’“, and “Emerging ASP model targets health records“ The first article, in my opinion, is more telling of the impending changes. Let’s face it – software…
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A taste for exotic cooking?
One of the mailing lists I’m on circulated a personal observation regarding some of the work that’s being done in East Asia, notably South Korea by Prof. Young Moon Chae. The moderator of the mailing list suggested that “Korea will be a hot bed in telemedicine in the future”. That’s an interesting and bold statement.…
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Standards wars – Is there a solution?
Since I’m sick and lying in bed today, I’ve been making a few cosmetic changes to my blog. It really sucks to be me because it’s sunny and warm outside and I’ve got some type of bug. Okay, enough whining… I’m working with MJ Suhonos to try and get my blog aggregated on the Journal…
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Disruptive technologies in health care?
Here’s an interesting article from Wired Magazine, titled “First Aid for Health Care“. In his most recent book, Seeing What’s Next, Clayton Christensen (author of the ever popular The Innovator’s Dilemma) “encourages readers to spot vulnerabilities in the processes, values, and markets of seemingly invulnerable industries”. The writer of the article uses Christensen’s ideas and…
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eHealth trends – personal predictions on significant factors
I’ve been in bed recovering from a nasty bug and just going over some ideas about my research, the e-Health 2005 Conference, and just brainstorming in general. I’m going to go out on a limb and record my predictions for trends/factors that will drive eHealth in the near future. I’ve already posted about “patient safety”…