[It is now June 2024, nearly four years since I wrote this post. Talk about a swing and a miss! In practice there are very few software applications actually using Patient Access APIs - not the tsunami I saw in my crystal ball. I need to do a post-mortem to figure out how I - … Continue reading On the Tsunami of Consumer Health Apps Headed Our Way
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Five Key Technology Themes Which Will Shape the Coming Decade, Part 1: Purpose, Introduction, and Approach
Purpose Healthcare today is largely an information business. With the exception of the few moments of physical interactions with patients in diagnosis and treatment, prescriptions, and medical equipment, we all trade in information. Payers manufacture only good will. They sell and service a binding promise to pay some part of a person’s or family’s health-related … Continue reading Five Key Technology Themes Which Will Shape the Coming Decade, Part 1: Purpose, Introduction, and Approach