Data to the User
By ESTHER DYSONNEW YORK – Customer data is a concept that most companies, especially those involved with health and health care, see as a threat rather than an opportunity. Most companies associate...
View ArticleThe Political Economy of Health Information Technology
By Mike MiliardHealthcare reform is arguably the hot-button political issue of our time. And with the Supreme Court locked and loaded to decide the fate of the Affordable Care Act this summer, it’s a...
View ArticleBetter Ways of Thinking About the Future
By Joe Flower2012 and 2013 present an opportunity for health care executives to produce significant change. If we hope to be, as Buckminister Fuller said, “Architects of the future, not its victims,”...
View ArticleInside the NHS Reform Fight
By Richard Hoey President Obama’s battle to get his healthcare bill through Congress was big news on this side of the Atlantic last year, not least for the way our own National Health Service (NHS) was...
View ArticleMedicares Wild Ride
By LINDA BERGTHOLD Most of us breathe a sigh of relief when we reach Medicare age because we think we will have coverage until we die. And we will. But we may not get all the options we want. Medicare...
View ArticleThere Is an Incubator Bubble And It Will Pop
By WADE ROUSHIn any market where the number of new businesses triples in the course of two years, you know that something unusual is going on. (And make no mistake—most venture incubators are...
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