Disruptive Innovation

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“The stage is being set for patient-driven disruption”

e-Patient Dave | April 28, 2010

The e-Caremanagement blog has released my post that we mentioned last week: “Gimme my damn data!” The stage is being set to enable patient-driven disruptive innovation. It’s part 5 of their excellent series (really, excellent) “Is HITECH working?” As I said then, if you’re into health IT, please catch up on this series – their [...]

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Insights on how the HITECH stimulus plan is working

e-Patient Dave | April 22, 2010

In my previous post I noted that Vince Kuraitis and David Kibbe are running an excellent series, “Is HITECH Working?”* After a full year of increasing tensions, claims, and counterclaims, reading these posts has given me hope that it’s all panned out into something mortals can understand. (I’d been afraid to look!) In a day [...]

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Christensen/Hwang: “Power to the Patients” (The Atlantic)

e-Patient Dave | October 5, 2009

“While other industries take as their focus such shallow concerns as the making of money, the health care profession prides itself on dealing with matters of life and death. But that’s not the only thing distinguishing health care from other industries: it is also unique in the extent to which it excludes consumers from important [...]