New Healthcare Technology Archives - Joe Flower Healthcare Futurist https://imaginewhatif.com/new-healthcare-technology/ Healthcare Speaker, Consultant Thu, 05 Jan 2017 19:44:38 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Blockchains: Turbo-charging Healthcare Transactions https://imaginewhatif.com/blockchains-turbo-charging-healthcare-transactions/ Thu, 06 Oct 2016 14:18:58 +0000 https://imaginewhatif.com/?p=3135 What It is: You’ve heard of bitcoin, that magical digital money not attached to any national economy or banking system? Blockchain is the technology behind it. It’s a clever extension of existing encryption techniques that enables trusted, secure transactions of any type, even with total strangers, even without knowing the identity of the counterparties — […]

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]]> Neural Dust: the blind see, the lame walk? https://imaginewhatif.com/neural-dust-the-blind-see-the-lame-walk/ https://imaginewhatif.com/neural-dust-the-blind-see-the-lame-walk/#comments Thu, 18 Aug 2016 22:21:11 +0000 https://imaginewhatif.com/?p=3097 What it is: A tiny encapsulated bit of circuitry, with sensors and a chip, that can be inserted into your brain (or actually, anywhere in your body), to check out the local conditions and report back. Here’s the actual paper in Cell from the UC Berkeley scientists and here’s a bit about it on the […]

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]]> https://imaginewhatif.com/neural-dust-the-blind-see-the-lame-walk/feed/ 1 Artificial Intelligence Picks Up Speed https://imaginewhatif.com/artificial-intelligence-picks-up-speed/ Wed, 22 Jun 2016 13:54:51 +0000 https://imaginewhatif.com/?p=2992 What it is: Pundits, start-ups, and marketing firms right now are throwing the term “Artificial Intelligence” like confetti on a parade. It’s the new “greenwashing.” What makes an AI system different from a really good program with massive computing power and a monster database is that the computer will only do what you program it […]

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]]> Are We Ready for Augmented Reality in Healthcare and Medicine? https://imaginewhatif.com/are-we-ready-for-augmented-reality-in-healthcare-and-medicine/ Wed, 15 Jun 2016 16:09:37 +0000 https://imaginewhatif.com/?p=2969 What it is: Keiichi Matsuda created a video to simulate an “augmented reality” or “hyper-reality” future, in which the real world around you is “augmented” with all kinds of information feeds. Take a look below, it’s a little over 6 minutes long and it is more than a little astonishing. HYPER-REALITY from Keiichi Matsuda on Vimeo. […]

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]]> Productivity? In Healthcare? https://imaginewhatif.com/productivity-in-healthcare/ https://imaginewhatif.com/productivity-in-healthcare/#comments Thu, 04 Jun 2015 02:03:42 +0000 https://imaginewhatif.com/?p=2232 Obamacare is built on the assumption that healthcare can be more productive, that we can squeeze more health per dollar out to the system that is built to give it to us. Practically everything I write is based on the same idea — big time. I believe we could do healthcare better for half the […]

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]]> https://imaginewhatif.com/productivity-in-healthcare/feed/ 2 The Seven Levers of Change in Healthcare https://imaginewhatif.com/the-seven-levers-of-change/ Thu, 02 Apr 2015 13:27:05 +0000 https://imaginewhatif.com/?p=2004 I talk to people all the time in health care at big civic gatherings; board retreats; conventions of nurses, physicians, managers of medical groups and accountable care organizations and health plans and device manufacturers. I give a talk, sit on a panel, run a discussion — and the rest of the time I listen, over […]

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]]> Why You Should Ditch Your IT System https://imaginewhatif.com/why-you-should-ditch-your-it-system/ Thu, 20 Nov 2014 20:19:16 +0000 https://imaginewhatif.com/?p=1931 So you spent millions to billions of dollars on information systems over the past few years, right? Maybe you should Junk it and start over.

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]]> Will Tech Revolutionize Health Care This Time? https://imaginewhatif.com/will-tech-revolutionize-health-care-this-time/ https://imaginewhatif.com/will-tech-revolutionize-health-care-this-time/#comments Tue, 27 May 2014 17:39:09 +0000 https://imaginewhatif.com/?p=1897 Will some of these new technologies actually transform health care? Which ones? How can we know?

There is an answer, but it does not lie in the technologies. It lies in the economics. It lies in the reason we have so much waste in health care. We have so much waste because we get paid for it.

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]]> https://imaginewhatif.com/will-tech-revolutionize-health-care-this-time/feed/ 3 How to Fail at the Next Health Care https://imaginewhatif.com/how-to-fail-at-the-next-health-care/ Tue, 04 Jun 2013 18:16:27 +0000 https://imaginewhatif.com/?p=1648 The Next Health Care calls for very different strategies and tool sets. Many systems are acting as if they read a manual on how to do it wrong. How many of these critical strategic and tactical mistakes is your system making?

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]]> The Ghost of Steve Jobs and Your Bottom Line https://imaginewhatif.com/the-ghost-of-steve-jobs-and-your-bottom-line/ Tue, 19 Mar 2013 15:54:53 +0000 https://imaginewhatif.com/?p=1626 The progeny of the iPhone and the iPad will change the shape of every healthcare institution — and their balance sheets — in ways that are hard to imagine.

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