Healthcare

How to Spend $4 Trillion on a 10% Problem? Pareto Principle And US Healthcare

Are we solving a 10% problem with $4 Trillion? We know the 80/20 rule — majority of consequences result from a few causes. Examples include how a big portion of wealth is concentrated in fewer individuals, how a small portion of population contributes to majority of healthcare spending, how bulk of company revenues come from a minority …

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The Really Simple Guide to Navigating Health Care Technology Innovations

Making sense of all technologies in health care – molecular, digital, and material. We hear about technology-enabled healthcare innovations constantly. Peloton’s camera for better strength training using vision AI; Microsoft’s acquisition of Nuance for conversational AI; Google using AI for drug-discovery; Amazon’s Amazon Care for employee health benefits; The list goes on. When technology meets …

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The X-Ray of a Tapeworm: Visualizing Money Flow in US Healthcare

How does US fund and spend $3.8 trillion for healthcare? How does each player in the system stack up in funding or spending? Healthcare System Warren Buffet memorably termed the healthcare industry the tapeworm of the US economy, referring to the apparent crowding out of investment in other industries as healthcare costs exceed 17% of …

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Big 4 Tech Players and Threat to Healthcare Incumbents

How do the Big Four in tech — Microsoft, Apple, Google, Amazon — stack up in the threat level they pose to incumbents in the US healthcare industry? New headlines loom large every day about investments and initiatives from Microsoft, Apple, Google, Amazon (MAGA, for short if you can’t remember them) in healthcare. Some of the initiatives promise miraculous …

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3 Reasons for Women Reporting More Vaccine Side Effects Than Men

Why women report more Covid-19 side effects — Three Bs: Biology, Behavior, and Bias. By early Jan 2021, almost 80% of Covid-19 vaccine side effects reported in the US came from women. This article from USA Today from April 2021, covers the possible reasons. Here’s a graphical summary of the findings. 3 Bs: Why women report more …

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Beyond the Pandemic: 3 Es Shaping US Healthcare

What underlying structural factors will affect post-pandemic healthcare in the US? Post-pandemic US Healthcare: 3 Es 2020. Annus horribilis. The year when considerations of health outweighed those of wealth globally, though we found them inseparably intertwined as millions lost their livelihoods. The debate about how the pandemic transformed healthcare globally and in the US will go …

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Rx to Px — Series Finale: Will an Experience-First Approach Lead to Better Outcomes?

In our current turmoil-driven world of health, in the so-called Age of Experience, will an Experience-First approach to healthcare give us better health outcomes? Reimagining our health encounters This is the finale of this series on Patient eXperience — series on moving from “Rx to Px” (prescription to experience). Part I of this series on “Rx to …

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Rx to Px — Part III: Reimagining Our Medicine Cabinet Experience

Rx to Px: Changing our medicine cabinet experience In part I of this series on “Rx to Px” (Prescription to Patient eXperience), I discussed how telemedicine and remote care delivery is transforming our day-to-day experience at doctors’ offices. In part II of “Rx to Px” (Going Beyond the Surgery for Better Outcomes) we looked at …

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Rx to Px — Part II: Going Beyond the Surgery for Better Outcomes

Going Beyond Surgeries for Better Outcomes In part I of this series on “Rx to Px” (Prescription to Patient eXperience), I discussed how telemedicine and remote care delivery is transforming our day-to-day experience at doctors’ offices. In this article, let’s examine patient experience from surgical procedure to recovery — on how our health system can go beyond surgery, …

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Rx to Px — Part I : Has the Age of Customer Experience Arrived in Healthcare?

Much has been written about how we moved from the Age of Information to the Age of Experience. Customer Experience (CX) was deemed the winning strategy for this era, with many technology-enabled businesses winning customers over with digitized experiences (DX). Underlying that view is the secular trend to improving User Experience (UX) — popularized by the world …

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