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Has Innovation Just Become An Infectious Disease?
Be careful, the company is febrile. Fluttering hearts, sweaty palms, anxiety, and delusions of grandeur are the other symptoms that seem to be transmitted from company to company–starting with the Chief Infection Officer. It just might be the new corporate flu that is driving change… Pass the tissues, I’m gonna sneeze. Today’s strategic imperative seems to…
Read MoreShould consumers be wary of Apple’s heartbeat monitoring app?
The success of the Apple Watch is unprecedented: In five short years, the Apple Watch has outsold the entire Swiss watch industry, with total sales exceeding 31 million units in 2019. Apple has also made significant strides into the health tech market in what is part of a larger shift from physician control to consumer collaboration when it comes…
Read MoreCulture Squashes Innovation
Your company needs a road map for change—not a hyped mission statement. The role of innovation and transformation tops the list of industry buzzwords today. The fear of disruption and obsolescence is driving a host of strategies and tactics that are intended to “reinvent” something that is new and competitive. From manufacturing to pharma, conference rooms and video screens…
Read MoreTelemedicine Is Ready…Almost
It’s time to translate the UX to the tech-based CLX (clinical experience). Remember those days when the internet was new, and everyone scrambled to get their site up and running? The strategy was to take your existing brochure or visual aid and just post it to the net. Grab the core visual, type in the…
Read MoreWhat’s Holding Digital Transformation In Healthcare Back?
Without a path forward, little gets accomplished. There’s a dirty little secret that’s playing a significant role in holding healthcare innovation back. It’s not the lack of digital expertise. It’s not the lack of budget. It’s not even establishing a return on investment. It’s the lack of strategy. Too often, innovation is placed in the business queue…
Read MoreShould Patient-Centricity Yield to Techno-Centricity?
Maybe it’s time we stop forcing a square technology peg into a round clinical hole. Technology has undeniably permeated almost every aspect of our lives. We rely on technology for just about everything — from entertainment to managing a business. And in healthcare, technology is becoming fundamentally indispensable in many aspects of care. One of…
Read MoreTelemedicine Is at a Tipping Point, Not an Inflection Point
The recent advances of telemedicine do not guarantee its success. Today, telemedicine isn’t at an inflection point. It’s at a tipping point. Most pundits and professionals have seen the advances in telemedicine, associated them with COVID-19, and have suggested that the era of telemedicine has arrived. And yes, telemedicine has become an established practice modality embraced by some…
Read MoreMove Over IQ and EQ
The Emerging Role of TQ—Technology Quotient—in Today’s World. Almost everywhere we turn and look, technology is becoming a part of our lives. Sometimes passive, sometimes active, but the role tech plays in our lives is here. Adoption varies greatly. And then it happened. The COVID-19 pandemic forced people of all walks, persuasions, and professions to…
Read MorePerhaps, A Braver New World
2021 Was Punctuated by Constant Disruptive Change The drip, drip, drip of innovation might just be a myth. Change commonly occurs as a punctuated reality that’s a function of converging events or a single disruption to a system or construct. I wonder if the famous term “singularity” coined by Ray Kurtzweil may be better suited…
Read MoreThe Urgent Need for Telemedicine 2.0
Today’s anemic version of telemedicine is no more innovative than a call from the doctor 50 years ago. Steve Jobs once observed that the early days of television were nothing more than a radio show with a TV camera added in the background. There was nothing new. If fact, it might have even made the…
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