IT has disrupted finance so why is healthcare lagging behind?

Information technology has revolutionalized financial services. So why is healthcare so far behind?
Phil Fasano, Guest Contributor, gigaom.com

The U.S. leads the world in health­care expen­di­tures – an astound­ing $2.7 tril­lion in 2012 and ris­ing every year. Yet in one recent study of med­ical out­comes in the world’s most high­ly devel­oped coun­tries we ranked last. By any mea­sure …

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Box gets into health IT with HIPAA compliant apps

Box gets hip to HIPAA, adds health-record apps
Jordan Novet, gigaom.com

Think some cloud-storage options are no good for privacy-sensitive appli­ca­tions like health care? Box wants you to think again. Keen on boost­ing its enter­prise cus­tomer base and prep­ping for an IPO, the com­pa­ny said Wednes­day it’s now…

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Healthtap: health professionals give free advice online

The Ultra-Popular App That Has Convinced Doctors To Give Their Services For Free
BY ARIEL SCHWARTZ, fastcoexist.com

HealthTap gives you access to medical professionals to answer your health queries, and it doesn’t cost you a dime.

There was a time not too long ago that doc­tors lived in an ana­log world. They only answered ques­tions from patients that came i…

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Startup incubator for digital health and healthcare technology startups

Startup incubator for digital health and healthcare technology startups
rockhealth.com

Accel­er­ate

Think you have an idea that can change health­care? Learn more about our pro­gram, meet our men­tors and teams, and see if you have what it takes.

Attend

If you’re seek­ing ways to con­nect with the dig­i­tal health com­mu­ni­ty…

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Health Data Company Athenahealth Goes Mobile

Health Data Company Athenahealth Goes Mobile With Acquisition Of Health Innovator Epocrates
By Anya Kamenetz, fastcompany.com

Epocrates, the start­up whose mobile apps pro­vide drug ref­er­ence advice to more than half of Amer­i­can health care providers, is being acquired by Athenahealth, the data man­age­ment plat­form for doctors—a mar­riage of two Most Inno­v­a­tive…

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God’s Hotel Book Review

(via ‘God’s Hotel’ Book Review – An Account of Health Care Past – NYTimes.com)

The Cash-Only Doctors Club

 

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Concierge doctors don’t take insurance, but do make house calls. Once an option only for the rich, they may change health care for everyone

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The Cash-Only Doctors Club

The Consumerization of Healthcare

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by Lauren Soelberg Treasure, orcahealth.com

The sys­temic change in US health­care deliv­ery has been called many things, but they all refer to one thing: the future of health­care will be in the hands of the con­sumers. Today, con­sumers are bet­ter able to make choic­es about their…

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The Consumerization of Healthcare

Survey: Patients Welcome Active Role in Care

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Written by Heather Punke |, beckershospitalreview.com

Decem­ber 12, 2012

Amer­i­can health­care con­sumers are buy­ing into the notion that they must take an active role in their health­care, accord­ing to a recent sur­vey by Wolters Kluw­er Health, part of Wolters Kluw­er, a glob­al infor­ma­tion…

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Survey: Patients Welcome Active Role in Care

Health 2.0: this year will be all about big data

Health 2.0 Conference: Big Data Making A Big Impact
Richard MacManus, readwrite.com

At the end of the Health 2.0 Con­fer­ence ear­li­er this month, I sat down with the event’s co-founders Matthew Holt and Indu Sub­aiya to dis­cuss the big trends. I’d been impressed and excit­ed by the inno­va­tion demon­strat­ed at Health 2.0. It…

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Health 2.0: Here Come The BigCos

Health 2.0: Here Come The BigCos!
Richard MacManus, readwriteweb.com

I’m at the Health 2.0 Con­fer­ence in San Fran­cis­co – and it reminds me a lot of the Web 2.0 Con­fer­ences of 2006-07. The sec­ond com­ing of the Web, coined “Web 2.0” by Tim O’Reil­ly and his com­pa­ny, was enter­ing its peak around 2006. If I…

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Health 2.0 Challenge #1: Getting Doctors Off Fax

Health 2.0 Challenge #1: Getting Doctors Off Fax Machines
Richard MacManus, readwriteweb.com

Today at the DC to VC: Health IT Start­up Show­case, a col­lab­o­ra­tion between Mor­gen­thaler Ven­tures and the Health 2.0 Con­fer­ence, I saw first­hand how health IT star­tups are tack­ling big, real-world prob­lems. Com­ing from a world where…

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