SPOTLIGHT -
PX: What Does Digital Health Mean to You?
What is digital health to you? A social science? Patient-centric? Our 4 KOL's have some differing views.
PX: What to Consider When Taking on a Big Data Initiative
What do you think health systems must consider if they want to take on a big data initiative?
PX: Is Regulation the Pitfall of Technology and Innovation?
How are regulations hindering innovation in healthcare?
PX: What Does the Hospital of Tomorrow Look Like?
How can we use technology to build the hospital of the future?
PX: Will AI Affect Medicine's Evolution?
With the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare, how will it affect the evolution of medicine?
PX: Can AI Be Smarter Than Humans?
Based on the limited IQ of humans, can artificial intelligence (AI) be trained to be smarter than people?
PX: Is AI a Physician's Tool or Future Physician?
Artificial intelligence (AI) has proven to be a useful tool for physicians. Can AI take their role in the future?
Machine Learning: The Future of Medicine?
Machine learning and artificial intelligence could usher in the future of medicine, but are they being utilized to their full potential?
Private Equity Firms Veritas and Evergreen to Buy Athenahealth for $5.7B
The new owners plan to merge athenahealth and Virence Health to create a “leading” health IT company.
The Promises and Pitfalls of Big Data in Healthcare
Will big data leave game-changing insights in its wake, or will it overwhelm an already overburdened healthcare system?
PX: How Can We Share Healthcare Data If We Can't Agree On Who Owns It?
Big data yields big insights, big value, and a big competitive edge. How can we incentivize collectors to share it?
PX: What Is Big Data, and Why Does It Matter?
Four top health tech experts discuss the looming potential and limitations of big data capture, and what it means for healthcare.
PX: Top 5 Strategies For Navigating Healthcare's Digital Transformation
Five of the brightest minds in health tech offer five unique perspectives on the short- and long-term moves that matter most for the modern hospital exec.
PX: Preparing Your Health System for the Digital Transformation
How valuable is a physician’s time? Is there a decent ROI for having them dedicate a sizable chunk to advising innovation teams? Should innovation teams be in-house or outsourced?
PX: Who is Responsible for Driving Healthcare Innovation?
We can make sense of the constant push and pull between physicians, executives, pharma, technocrats, government agencies and more.
PX: The Undisruptable Elements of Healthcare
Forget the complaints – healthcare does plenty of things right, too. So where should hospitals bow to disruption, and where should they double down their efforts?
PX: New Roles for Amazon, Blockchain, PBMs and Preventive Care in Health Tech
Technology and medicine aren't just crossing paths, they're converging. What does a happy medium look like?
PX: How Are Outside Disruptors Failing in Healthcare?
"The point here is that if you're a disruptor, you better be solving a real problem. You don't lead with the technology first."
PX: Innovation Vs. Implementation: Which Startups Are Doing it Right in Healthcare?
Disruption is a difficult game, especially for healthcare startups, whose innovative ideas are a dime a dozen, but whose implementation strategies are often murky at best.
PX: Why Is Healthcare Innovation Lagging? Because Incentives are Lacking
On the flip side, current incentives are driving many of healthcare's worst behaviors.
PX: The Top 2 Powerhouse Disruptors Entering Healthcare
These days it seems like everyone has set their sights on disrupting healthcare. Who's really making news, and who's just making noise?
PX: Balancing AI and the Human Element in Healthcare
Will physicians always be the ultimate arbiters of patient care, or does their humanness leave aspects of their workflow better served by artificial intelligence?
PX: Overcoming Physician Resistance to New Tech, Disrupted Workflows
Despite it's long-term benefits, new tech inherently disrupts physicians' workflows. How can health execs overcome this cultural resistance?
Can Outside Disruptors Increase Patient Engagement?
Health systems are leaving a lot of value on the table when it comes to engaging their patients. What tools will improve the patient experience, and keep patients invested in improving their health?
Can Outside Disruption Save Healthcare?
Healthcare stands on the precipice of a digital revolution. Who will help usher in the new era it so sorely needs?
A Weed DNA Test, Interoperability and a Hack: Our Top 5 Stories
The week’s health-tech news that you can’t miss.
What to Know About the New CMS Interoperability Rule
The agency says it’s all about empowering patients, providers and data sharing.
The American Medical Association's Silicon Valley Experiment
Could healthcare’s big moment of disruption come from within?
Pinpointing Precision Medicine's Place in Cardiology
Kevin Campbell, M.D., will lead a webinar on data, value and precision cardiovascular medicine.
A Half-Dozen Hot Health-Tech Takes From This Week
Ethics, interoperability, and the wearables revolution dominated our reading (and listening) this week.