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Health Care, Stop Using: Insurance, Market, and Quality (Part 1 of 2)
The health care insurance industry looks like no other insurance
Andy Oram
industry in the world. When we think of insurance, we think of paying semi-annually into a fund we hope we never need to use. But perhaps every twenty years or so, we suffer damage to our car, our house, or our business, and the insurance kicks in. That may have been true for healthcare 70 years ago, when you wouldn’t see the doctor unless you fell into a pit or came down with some illness they likely couldn’t cure anyway.
The insurance model is totally unsuited for health care today...
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Health Information Exchanges Face Significant Financial Challenges
Concerns about competition could undercut development and long-term sustainability of health information exchanges, according to preliminary findings of a survey by the eHealth Initiative. Read More »
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Health Information Exchanges: More Innovation Needed
HIEs have been slow to develop offerings that organizations can use to improve care coordination, says report. Read More »
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Health Orgs Dooming Their "Innovation" To Failure
Healthcare organizations are rapidly trying to reinvent themselves in light of the new rules of the game. One could argue it officially started October 1, 2012 with Medicare’s readmission penalties. People are calling this the “no outcome, no income” era. [...] Read More »
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Health-Tech Incubators See Influx Of Startups
When Seth Freedman co-founded IntelligentM in December 2011, he was confident of the appeal of his company's product -- an electronic bracelet that keeps track of hand washing among health workers so hospitals can improve hygiene and better control the spread of infections. But [Freedman] lacked the connections to break into the competitive hospital market. Read More »
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Healthcare Cloud Market to Hit $5.4 Billion by 2017
The global market for cloud computing in healthcare is expected to reach $5.4 billion by 2017, according to research firm MarketsandMarkets. Read More »
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Healthcare Crowdfunding Gets Hatched: Passion Is The Possibility Of Health Tech Hatch
Fund next year’s Post-it notes. You can. Through crowdfunding; which seems to have become one of the market’s hottest concepts... Read More »
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Healthcare Just Sucks For Technology Startups
Google, Facebook, Yahoo, Twitter, and rest all compete for online ad dollars totaling something like 180B a year in total market value. Healthcare on the other hand consumes 2.8T or 15 times larger. Meanwhile, the number of pure Health technology companies that have a valuation of something close to a billion (outside of EHR's) is under a single handful.
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Healthcare Reform To Boost Growth In Telehealth Market By 55 Percent In 2013
From 2010 to 2011 usage of remote patient monitoring, or telehealth, increased by 22.2 percent as the number of patients enrolled worldwide reached 241,200. However, telehealth device revenues only grew by 5.0 percent from 2010 to 2011; and 18.0 percent from 2011 to 2012. Read More »
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Heather Joseph On The State Of Open Access: Where Are We, What Still Needs To Be Done?
This is the fourth Q&A in a series exploring the current state of Open Access (OA). On this occasion the questions are answered by Heather Joseph. Read More »
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Hoffmann And Jeon On Using ICT For Clean Water In Kibera
The February 10 Liberation Technology seminar titled, Can ICT Improve Clean Water Delivery Systems in Slums? Lessons from Kibera was led by two Stanford students, Katherine Hoffman, M.A. Candidate in International Policy Studies and Global Health together with Sunny Jeon, PhD candidate in Political Science... Read More »
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How Do Cloud-Based EHRs Address Common Implementation Woes?
After spending thousands of dollars on an EHR system, computers, IT infrastructure, installation, and staff training, most providers hope that they never have to go through the EHR implementation process again. [...] Read More »
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How I failed
When you start out as an entrepreneur, it’s just you and your idea, or you and your co-founder’s and your idea. Then you add customers, and they shape and mold you and that idea until you achieve the fabled “product-market fit.” [...] But if you are to succeed in building an enduring company, it has to be about far more than that: it has to be about the team and the institution you create together. Read More »
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How Much Are Misaligned Incentives In Health Care Costing Tax Payers?
On Christmas Eve, I took care of a patient who had just undergone surgery for an infected artificial shoulder. He was to be discharged on intravenous antibiotics three times a day for six weeks. [...] The total cost of this is approximately $7000 for nursing visits, antibiotics and supplies... Read More »
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How Open Source Hardware Is Driving the 3D-Printing Industry
The potential of 3D printing to transform the way we get things - the market is predicted to hit $3.1 billion in the next four years - gets a lot of press. But not much of that attention has focused on the unique role of open source hardware in enabling 3D printing to realize its promise. Read More »
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