Comments on: TECH: Can Health Care Learn From Other Industries? http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2007/03/14/tech-can-health-care-learn-from-other-industries/ The Policy Journal of the Health Sphere Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:04:42 -0500 hourly 1 By: In other news | WorldHealthCareBlog.org http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2007/03/14/tech-can-health-care-learn-from-other-industries/comment-page-1/#comment-2396 In other news | WorldHealthCareBlog.org Wed, 25 Apr 2007 17:26:02 +0000 http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2007/03/14/tech-can-health-care-learn-from-other-industries/#comment-2396 [...] While you’ve been at the conference, a few tidbits that have surfaced in the last few days: - Ezra Klein has a great piece The Health of Nations on the proven results of socialized medicine. Of course, our very own Matthew Holt pokes some holes in the piece. - Keep your eye out on FierceHealthcare’s upcoming list of top hospital innovators to be published in a week or so. Their previous list of top Healthcare IT Innovators highlighted some undiscovered gems, and I suspect the hospital list will also. My vote is for Memorial Hospital & Health System in South Bend, Indiana. Got a product to test on patients? Give ‘em a call. - A few weeks ago, it was diabetes that covered every front news page. This week, it seems to be obesity. A new study suggested that “the heaviest employees had twice the rate of workers’ compensation claims as their fit co-workers.” Epocrates issues their 2007 Obesity Report and stated that physicians believe obesity is America’s most severe health problem. One glimmer of good news: In a Swedish study, the number of obese kids dropped by 6% after banning buns, sweets, and soft drinks. US officials are finally looking at this now. - The HealthAffairs blog has a great interview with innovation guru Clayton Christensen on what healthcare can learn from other industries [...] [...] While you’ve been at the conference, a few tidbits that have surfaced in the last few days: – Ezra Klein has a great piece The Health of Nations on the proven results of socialized medicine. Of course, our very own Matthew Holt pokes some holes in the piece. – Keep your eye out on FierceHealthcare’s upcoming list of top hospital innovators to be published in a week or so. Their previous list of top Healthcare IT Innovators highlighted some undiscovered gems, and I suspect the hospital list will also. My vote is for Memorial Hospital & Health System in South Bend, Indiana. Got a product to test on patients? Give ‘em a call. – A few weeks ago, it was diabetes that covered every front news page. This week, it seems to be obesity. A new study suggested that “the heaviest employees had twice the rate of workers’ compensation claims as their fit co-workers.” Epocrates issues their 2007 Obesity Report and stated that physicians believe obesity is America’s most severe health problem. One glimmer of good news: In a Swedish study, the number of obese kids dropped by 6% after banning buns, sweets, and soft drinks. US officials are finally looking at this now. – The HealthAffairs blog has a great interview with innovation guru Clayton Christensen on what healthcare can learn from other industries [...]

]]> By: Jane Hiebert-White http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2007/03/14/tech-can-health-care-learn-from-other-industries/comment-page-1/#comment-1767 Jane Hiebert-White Wed, 21 Mar 2007 20:30:45 +0000 http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2007/03/14/tech-can-health-care-learn-from-other-industries/#comment-1767 Mark Smith's interview with Clayton Christensen is generating debate in the blogosphere. Over on <a href="http://www.thehealthcareblog.com/the_health_care_blog/2007/03/policytech_harv.html" rel="nofollow">The Health Care Blog today</a>, Matthew Holt writes: "Mark asks his a bunch of sensible questions about how disruption can work in health care (as compared to computers and high tech) with our different payment structure, concentration of diseases/costs amongst a few people and (implicitly) the long term non-episodic nature of the care required for chronic disease. And what does Christensen do? He ignores the parts that don’t make sense to him." And in an <a href="http://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/eletters/hlthaff.26.3.w288v1" rel="nofollow">e-letter, Bradford Kirkman-Liff</a> of Arizona State University writes: "Many disruptive innovations have been attempted by public health and managed care organizations over the past 60 years. Disruptive innovations have an important role to play, but the politics of professional scope of practice, patent reform and shadow pricing, medical liability, and improved design of HSAs and high-deductible health plans are all necessary if disruptive innovation is to succeed." Mark Smith’s interview with Clayton Christensen is generating debate in the blogosphere. Over on The Health Care Blog today, Matthew Holt writes: “Mark asks his a bunch of sensible questions about how disruption can work in health care (as compared to computers and high tech) with our different payment structure, concentration of diseases/costs amongst a few people and (implicitly) the long term non-episodic nature of the care required for chronic disease. And what does Christensen do? He ignores the parts that don’t make sense to him.”

And in an e-letter, Bradford Kirkman-Liff of Arizona State University writes: “Many disruptive innovations have been attempted by public health and managed care organizations over the past 60 years. Disruptive innovations have an important role to play, but the politics of professional scope of practice, patent reform and shadow pricing, medical liability, and improved design of HSAs and high-deductible health plans are all necessary if disruptive innovation is to succeed.”

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