The Current State of Healthcare Digital Transformation
The current state of healthcare digital transformation Are we still seeing staff with no exposure to EHRs? What is the future of cloud migration, data analytics, and other emerging technology improving the healthcare industry? How does the shift to value-based care impact health systems? Digital transformation in healthcare should be – Patient-Centric (Individual) or Institutional? […]
New York Telemedicine Startup Call9 Winding Down Operations
CEO Tim Peck confirmed the news to CNBC, saying the company ran out of the cash it needed to continue to scale the business and was laying off roughly 100 employees. Read more
How Close Are We to Platform Domination in Healthcare’s Digital Business Models?
Several technology firms are making attempts to dominate the digital health market. However, healthcare is very different from platform dominated markets in other sectors. Platform domination is a feature of several industry sectors, especially ones where there is a winner-takes-all outcome that is hard to replicate or compete against. Google dominates search. Amazon dominates e-commerce. […]
What is Holding Back Digital Health Innovation?
Last week, I attended a program at the Harvard Medical School on data and analytics strategies for healthcare that gave me insightful perspectives on healthcare IT from frontline physicians who work with technology on an everyday basis. One of the big topics of discussion was the intractable problem with healthcare data: who owns it, who […]
What is Holding Back Digital Health Innovation?
Reimbursement, data interoperability and risk aversion each have healthcare leaders second guessing technology-led innovations. About the author: Paddy Padmanabhan is founder and CEO of Damo Consulting, a growth strategy and digital transformation advisory firm that works with healthcare enterprises and global technology companies, and author of The Big Unlock: Harnessing Data and Growing Digital Health Businesses […]
Healthcare is Not a Winner-Take-All Industry
June 17, 2019 In my latest podcast interview, John Sculley, former CEO of Apple, discusses the growing significance of platforms in healthcare and notes that platforms have revolutionized every sector of the economy – except healthcare. Major tech firms such as Microsoft, Apple, and Google will be major players in healthcare in future. However, unlike search […]
You Ain’t Heard Nothin’ Yet
June 10, 2019 You ain’t heard nothin’ yet – Al Jolson’s immortal words from 1927’s The Jazz Singer may now have a whole new meaning as we enter the era of voice-enablement in healthcare. I have shared some of the most recent developments in secure voice-enabled communication between caregivers and patients in my latest blog in CIO online, and where […]
Aligning Stakeholder Groups in Enterprise Digital Transformation
Aligning stakeholder groups in enterprise digital transformation Healthcare CIOs across the board are deeply involved in enterprise digital transformation today, with many either carrying the additional responsibility of Chief Digital Officer or transitioning into the role full time. However, digital transformation is more about culture change than about technology. While digital transformation is primarily IT-enabled, […]
Voice-Enablement: The Next Big Wave in Healthcare’s Digital Transformation Journey
Voice is the most obvious next step of user interface that is going to radically change the way we interact with technology in healthcare services. You ain’t heard nothin’ yet. Amazon made news recently when details of its proposed emotion-sensing wearable device came to light. Interestingly, the device is being developed by the Alexa team who is […]
Think big. Start small. Scale fast.
June 3, 2019 In our latest podcast episode, Neil Gomes, Chief Digital Officer of Jefferson Health, shares his thoughts on how the Digital Innovation and Consumer Experience (DICE) group at Jefferson Health has been creating value through various consumer-facing applications. He shares a few tips and mantras for startups and digital health innovators, and discusses the […]
