What follows are some controversial remarks from last week’s 4th annual World Congress Leadership Summit on mHealth in Boston, where I represented MobiHealthNews as a panel moderator.
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Texting is gaining traction in healthcare. While much of the buzz at the 4th annual mHeatlh World Congress focused on the potential of smartphone applications to engage patients, two presentations told how public health initiatives are having success with the slightly older technology.
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The Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston has been able to demonstrably improve patient outcomes with its diabetes management model, but with a finite set of resources, how can the center move beyond the approximately 250,000 patients that it and its more than 40 affiliates currently treat?
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Disclaiming that these ideas may not be “sexy”, William Morris, Vice Chairman of Clinical Informatics at the Cleveland Clinic, said that transitioning to mobile technology will require organizations develop an overall strategy, maintain governance, as well as manage the process.
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To tap into the potential of social media for advancing health, providers and developers need to go where the people are and must change their thinking to a person-centered model of engagement.
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The growth in smart phone adoption and a shift to a mobile, social media based model of consumer engagement means rethinking how and when patient engagement can occur, according to a panel discussion on July 26 at the 4th Annual mHealth World Congress.
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Successful mHealth innovation projects start with an idea to enhance patient care, move from idea to development with clinician assistance and end with a practical tool that makes clinicians’ jobs easier.
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People are not comfortable with change. While we love to talk about innovation, the challenge of budgets, time and technology often scares us. If you plan for a conservative corporation, you might have to make a case for your ideas to skeptical stakeholders.
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The institution in question is Hospital Sant Joan de Deu, a large paediatric hospital in Spain linked to a network of medical charity centres in the developing world. Its new name was created in a stream of consciousness: H for hospital, with Web 2.0, led to H2.0, then H2O - hence liquid hospital.
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Lately, there has been a renewed interest in harnessing creativity in business. Last year, in “Spark: How Creativity Works,” Julie Burstein and Kurt Andersen recounted interviews with various personalities who broke through barriers in unexpected ways, often by looking outside their immediate lives. This year, in his excellent book “Imagine: How Creativity Works,” Jonah Lehrer explains how creative companies purposefully create environments that connect teams from different corners of the organization in order to create more ideas and solutions.
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Wellness plans that encourage workers to live healthier, medical procedure price transparency and value-based models are among the moves that could help control the country's health care costs, the boss of one of California's largest insurers said in a talk Tuesday.
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Leonard Schaeffer, founding CEO and former chairman of WellPoint insurance company, gave a sobering opinion on the ability of the federal reform legislation to bend the health care cost curve at The 8th Annual American Health Care Congress and Exhibition.
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Robert Pearl, MD, has a story about a follow-up conversation with his adult daughter after encouraging her to consult a physician about a seemingly minor problem she had been experiencing with one of her fingers. “She said she had taken my advice,” notes Pearl, who serves as CEO of The Permanente Medical Group. “I answered that I was happy to hear that, and asked her which doctor she had seen. She told me that she hadn’t actually made a visit, but instead had had a consultation via computer and that everything was fine.”
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If Richard Afable, MD, MPH, president and CEO of Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian, Newport Beach, California, told you he was closing down the largest orthopedics programs in California and entering into an orthopedics specialty hospital joint venture with his physicians, you might think about sending him job leads.
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"The big change in the world is that patients are taking control." The remarks from TEDMED's Jay Walker at last week's World Health Care Congress captured the prevailing sentiment of the conference for medical and healthcare executives.
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This three-part interview from World Health Care Congress with Markus Fromherz, chief innovation officer of Xerox Healthcare, covers some of the most exciting healthcare research and development going on at Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Center. Part one includes Markus’ thoughts on moving paper data to digital and describes the process in three layers – gaining access, drawing insight and taking action from what was learned.
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Last week, I had a chance to sit down with Dr. Hawk right after his presentation at the World Health Care Congress (WHCC). Dr. Hawk is the Vice-President and Division Head for Cancer Prevention and Population Sciences at the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center. He’s been there since late 2007 when he came from the National Cancer Institute.
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