Archive for June, 2007
My Post on Patient as Driver Cited on eHealth Smart Brief
June 13, 2007
In the eHealth Smart Brief newsletter, my June 6th quoted under the title of “Blog: Get consumers involved in the health care process.” The quote is: “Every health system and hospital will be following leads like this to survive in this more transparent health care market where cost and quality will drive business.”
Comments welcome. eHealth Smart Brief is a quality email newsletter. Worth the time.
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Web 2.0 Values vs. Health Care Values
June 12, 2007
Some have commented on a slide in my presentation about this topic contrasting disruptive Web 2.0 values such as risk taking opposing health care values, risk adverse. The interesting thing is that good medical practice by nature is collaborative and should embrace Web 2.0. But the conservative side of medicine will continue to hold back some of the potential of Web 2.0. Ves Dimov of Clinical Cases and Images has his “own theory about the 6 axes of medical education in Web 2.0 style.”
Share this:Patient as Driver
June 7, 2007
Wayne A. Sensor is CEO of Alegent Health, Omaha, Neb. has written an article on the Most Wired website on “Taking the Wheel: Empowering Users to Make Informed Health Care Choices.” He utilizes the concept of patient as driver to draw attention to what he calls the last frontier for consumers, healthcare. “We must surround consumers with the information they need to complete the value equation: price plus quality equals value.” Adam Bosworth could not have said it better. Alegent has on their homepage two key tools which he would describe as patient empowerment tools
- MyCost – to help consumers understand their deductable and other out-of-pocket costs
- Quality Reports – detailed scorecard by disease
Every health system and hospital will be following leads like this to survive in this more transparent healthcare market where cost and quality will drive business.
Share this:Interest in Web 2.0 in Health Care
June 6, 2007
Posting my slides on Web 2.0 in health care generated some interest:
Thanks for the postings – I hope it stimulates some new thinking.
Share this:My Presentation on Web 2.0 in Healthcare to the Northern Ohio HIMSS
June 5, 2007
On Friday I presented at the conference of Northern Ohio Healthcare Information Management and Systems Society in Cleveland. The powerpoint is posted here. There was a positive response with lots of interest in hearing more. There is also an initiative to do more with SecondLife as the activity on the Cleveland Island grows. I am not a member yet, but probably will sign on soon.
The other presentations from the conference are worth checking out:
- Erica Drazen from FCG on Emerging Trends in Healthcare Information Technology
- Brad Chilton of University Hospitals of Cleveland on Infrastructure and Sourcing Strategies
- and two speakers on biotech innovation in Cleveland (presentations forthcoming) - a current hotbed for investment.
