January 2012
3 posts
“Gentlemen, we are going to relentlessly chase perfection, knowing full well we...”
– Vince Lombardi
(via michaelhayes)
Helloooo healthcare applicability.
“Imagine if we didn’t feel compelled to hide our illnesses. Imagine if we could...”
– Jeff Jarvis: Very public health
December 2011
4 posts
"Family Medical Officer"
This irks me. Really irks me.
In what is otherwise a pretty forward offering, El Camino Hospital has launched its first mobile phone app. All the standard features (find a doctor, ER waiting time, etc.) are included. But it also includes a tool to track medical histories for all the members of the family. Neat.
This, it seems, is the jumping off point. El Camino has anointed the household...
foursquare promotes its API usage in health apps →
via @mtommasi
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November 2011
18 posts
Pre-Digital Healthcare.
Since this is going to be nearly a word-for-word pull from his blog, do yourself a favor and read Seth’s blog every day. Healthcare is “pre-digital.” That’s a slam. But also the opportunity:
A brief visit to the emergency room last month reminded me of what an organization that’s pre-digital is like. Six people doing bureaucratic tasks and screening that are...
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The Business About My Breasts →
Must read if you are at all interested in healthcare experience.
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Sad but true.
This, more or less, is what I consider to be the largest struggle for the coming shift of sickness to wellness in healthcare institutions:
On the other hand, an organization filled with people who are rewarded for shaking things up and generating game-changing products and services just might discover that outcomes they are dreaming of are in fact what happen. The enthusiasm that comes from...
"But that is starting to change."
When we look at healthcare, what’s wrong with it, and what needs to happen to fix it, we can’t see as clearly how the web, technology, and large networks of engaged users can impact healthcare in a positive way. But that is starting to change.
A VC. Read the comments.
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Saving by the Bundle →
“High-touch medicine.”
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Through a child's eyes
“It’s like this big thing,” he said, spreading his arms wide. “All you see is hallways and elevators and lots and lots of rooms.”
He’s talking about a hospital. Seems an appropriate representation.
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“Those that have been subsidized hate having it end, and even those that will...”
– The very near healthcare future. Said by Seth.
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Thinking Outside the Bus →
Always good to remind yourself about all that which impacts health. Hospitals can’t fix transportation problems. Or can they?
Think Beta (End Malaria)
I’m a professed pursuer of healthcare perfection. We all know the ills of patient safety (or the lack thereof). But I also fear the perfection pursuit regularly creeps into the business side of healthcare. And by business side, I’m focusing intently on “try new things” to keep healthcare delivery progressing. That’s why I’ve always liked Google’s...
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This future is not that far away.
Disrupt. Or be disrupted. Frank Moss:
But imagine a far more extreme transformation, in which advances in information technology, biology and engineering allow us to move much of health care out of hospitals, clinics and doctors’ offices, and into our everyday lives.
October 2011
20 posts
Healthcare's problem.
Straight lifted from Seth:
“You can’t argue with success.”
Of course you can.
Conventional wisdom says you shouldn’t bother. But arguing with failure is dumb. Failure doesn’t need to be argued with, it’s already failed.
It takes guts to argue with success, guts and insight. And it’s the best way to make things better.
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5 Storytelling Concepts That Health Care Firms Are... →
via @leighhouse
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“Ecosystems outlast organisms.”
– Seth
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PERSONAL BEST →
(Coaches for doctors). Another installation in the occasional series of linking to everything Atul Gawande writes.
CareMore
One of CareMore’s critical insights was the application of an old systems-management principle first developed at Bell Labs in the 1930s and refined by the management guru W. Edwards Deming in the 1950s: you can fix a problem at step one for $1, or fix it at step 10 for $30. The American health-care system is repair-centric, not prevention-centric. We wait for train wrecks and then clean up the...
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The Innovation Learning Network Wants To Cure What... →
Conviction-driven thinkers
Doreen Lorenzo:
Conviction-driven thinkers on all levels of an organization, from the C-suite to executive assistants, want to share their specific visions more than they seek fame or power. They don’t just think they have a good idea, but they believe passionately that their concept is worth making real. The beauty of these types of thinkers (and doers) is that they can explain why they want to...
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Questions
Jason Fried (37 signals) posted a list of questions he asks when reviewing a design. I couldn’t help but think that the questions would be beneficial to ask when we think about doing anything new in healthcare. You know, to inject the missing patient perspective from our great ideas and implementations. Even the techy ones have an equivalent in real-world experiences.
What does it say?
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What's Possible.
Matt Berg, mobile health technology director for ChildCount+ was asked a question by Samantha Michaels:
What’s something that most people just don’t understand about your field?
What’s possible. I think we’re still just wrapping our heads around what universal connectivity will ultimately mean. By universal connectivity, I’m referring to a state where the majority...
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Skill/Goal #1: "Adaptive" Organizations →
Hellooooo hospitals. Tom’s back, and it’s a good one.
News bandits.
Did you see that weird bit of news last week where some folks were buying all the copies of a local weekly they could get their hands on? Here’s an update via HISTalk:
Two small Long Island weekly newspapers are baffled when all available copies are quickly bought up from vending machines and newsstands, with at least two teams of people grabbing all available copies at or above the cover...
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Readmissions come back to bite hospitals →
I remember the day when I figured out that hospitals were paid for their failures—readmissions. I welcome the new rules; finally an incentive to help keep people healthy, not just more procedures.
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Selling software.
Sell to Teachers Nurses (you get the point)
Mobile Apps Must Die →
Word. (Though probably not for a while.)
$42,000,000
This is cool. But I can’t decide if $42 cool is an underinvestment or overinvestment. CBS Chicago:
A Chicago couple thinks a doctor’s bedside manner is so important, they’re giving the University of Chicago $42 million dollars to teach it.
via Not Running a Hospital
September 2011
26 posts
The Barter Economy
PSFK:
A medical center in Maine, USA, has commenced a program aimed to provide medical care to uninsured patients. The Portland Hour Exchange Program is designed as a complement to Medicaid, and the initiative lets patients pay for medical services with ‘time dollars’, which they can earn through completing chores. Instead of paying an expensive fee or contributing to their insurance plan,...
Magic.
John Scully speaks:
The big difference now is that if you look at the social web, the consumer is no longer wowed by technology. It’s all about magic, and the magic can be Facebook, Twitter, the ability to find anything anywhere on Google. We’re at an era where technology is an invisible enabler to magic. So the real quest is if we can take the challenge of getting healthy people to...
Watch“You Have To Tell A Story, Before You Can Sell A Story”
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Designing a Smarter Patient →
On: Benchmarking
Seth:
If you’re going to count on the competition to bring out your best work, you’ve surrendered control over your most important asset. Real achievement comes from racing ahead when no one else sees a path—and holding back when the rush isn’t going where you want to go.
It’s foolish (usually).