With the rapid shift from volume-based reimbursement to value-based reimbursement, organizations must change the way they deliver healthcare, with Deming’s quality rules offering clues as to what needs to be done.
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Effectively leveraging new scorecards, representing the best in clinical business intelligence, requires a method to “capture the eyeballs” of the clinician in a way that influences behavior and modifies outcomes.
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Counter to the pessimistic view that the billions of dollars spent on EMRs and other health IT systems are wasted resources, these investments offer a powerful force that, when the conditions are right, will significantly impact quality, safety, and cost.
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To date, hospitals, EMR vendors, and the government struggle to demonstrate the value of EMRs in enhancing patient care and delivering cost savings.
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Only recently have researchers viewed the human body as a super-organism, influenced as much by the genetics of the host as by the permanent bacterial residents.
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“Every system is perfectly designed to achieve exactly the results it gets.”
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3D printing offers the opportunity to print pharmaceuticals specifically produced to meet the needs of individual patients.
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The key to achieving that harmony of technology is through sensors, devises that collect vast amounts of data from an almost infinite number of sources.
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The digital age is the age of big data where every piece of technology captures data available for later use. This digital “exhaust data,” is data created as a by-product of other activities.
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When asked about the research that went into the design of the iPad, Jobs replied “None, it’s not the consumer’s job to know what they want.”
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