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Is Disruptive Innovation Really Such A Good Thing?

Healthcare IT Today

This week I read an essay by Health Futures President Jeff Goldsmith which made a case for moving beyond a much-beloved way of thinking about innovation and growth. Health IT leaders are sometimes dazzled by vendors claiming that they can provide market-shifting disruptive technology, but in my experience, this rarely pans out as promised.

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Hacking Health Care, Your Top Health-Tech Summer Read

Health Populi

Health citizens deserve Tom’s vision to emerge,” I wrote in a quote on the back of Tom’s new book, Hacking Health Care: How AI and the Intelligence Revolution Will Reboot an Ailing System. And remember… love is the ultimate driver of health.

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One approach to addressing social determinants of health: The Medibus, a medical practice on wheels

CiscoHealth

As part of our National Health IT Week blog series, we are going to take a look at the social determinants of health. This means the conditions under which people are born, grow, live, work, and age, to improve our overall health ecosystem and support healthy communities. Modernize public health infrastructure.

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How Social Media Can Get Public Health So Wrong

Health Populi

This week, public health truths have collided with social media, the infodemic, and health citizenship. First, I read in Becker’s Health IT on February 16 that the peer-reviewed policy journal Health Affairs was prevented by a social media outlet from promoting its February 2022 issue themed “Racism and Health.

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Revolutionizing Healthcare: The Role of Informatics

BHM Healthcare Solutions

In this blog post, we will explore the role of healthcare informatics in revolutionizing the healthcare industry, highlighting its benefits and applications. Health data analytics also facilitates population health management, identifying trends, and patterns to optimize preventive care and public health interventions.

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Health Data Unbound Virtual Conference

E-CareManagement

Data of all kinds has an important role in public health, logistics management, and the healthcare supply chain. • Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, Health Economist, Advisor, Trend Weaver, THINK-Health & Founder, Health Populi blog. This shift creates a business imperative to share information, not to hoard it.

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Using Design to Liberate Healthcare; Learning from Dr. Andrew Chacko and Tan Le

Health Populi

You can read the entire post and learnings in Take 2 of my 3-part series here in the Medecision blog. By doing so, we will indeed recognize the water in which we swim, and acknowledge and design for the glorious diversity of the other fish we meet along our journeys.