From a ReadWriteWeb article:
Dr. J. Deane Waldman, Professor of Pediatrics, Pathology & Decision Science at the University of New Mexico said the industry has three disincentives to innovation that will partly suppress the effect of Moore‘s law, including:
Regulatory oversight that is completely focussed on compliance. “It discourages risk-taking and innovation,” Deane said. Health care doesn‘t have the same financial reward system. Facebook isn‘t about to pay $1 billion for the latest hot-ticket item in imaging and informatics.
Choosing Wiselyis an initiative of the ABIM Foundation focused on encouraging physicians, patients and other health care stakeholders to think and talk about medical tests and procedures that may be unnecessary, and in some instances can cause harm.
La Ribera University Hospital (Spain) has been chosen along with other 3 European healthcare institutions, as basis for the report titled “Healthcare of the Future”. This has been approved by the European Commissioner for Health and Consumer Policy, John Dalli and La Ribera University Hospital managers, in a meeting in Paris. The report is written by the European Union Directorate General for Health and Consumer Policy in collaboration with COCIR (European Coordination Commitee of the Radiological, Electromedical and Heathcare IT Industry), group that includes some of the main healthcare tech companies in the world.
According to the study “The Economic Impact of the U.S. Advanced Medical Technology Industry” released by the Advanced Medical Technology Association (AdvaMed) prepared by Battelle Technology Partnership Practice, the advanced medical technology industry is responsible for generating over $113 billion in personal income for workers, $381 in billion in national economic output and almost 1.9 million U.S. jobs.
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Jorge Cortell, Founder and President of Kanteron Systems, presented (soon available via livestream) yesterday some of the company‘s solutions geared towards reducing hospital readmission to a group of 70 professionals at the VNS of NY HQ (10 E 70th St., New York) during a Health 2.0 NYC – The New York Healthcare Innovation Groupmeeting.
Here are some of the twitter-comments from that session:
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Health 2.0 companies to watch!
According to a presentation by Michael J. Gray of Gray Consulting at a webinar on Jan. 26 hosted by the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS):
Implementation of a vendor-neutral archive (VNA) solves most of the problems associated with PACS, can save money over the long term and can prepare an enterprise to participate in a health information exchange (HIE)
SourceKanteron Systems is a leading global supplier of vendor-neutral archive.
