The Healthcare Revolution
How technical and social collaboration innovations are supporting the transformation of Health & Care
Overview:
The book will have the following topics:
- that health & care must change dramatically, rather than evolve, in the next few years if they are to become sustainable under the barrage of demographic changes, chronic disease growth, new and complex treatments, associated cost growth - combined with the growth of the Human Network through Web 2.0 and collaborative technology that is changing the balance of power between corporations / provider organisations and the patient / public. Part of this seismic change will be the separation and recombination of health (around healthy living and disease / crisis avoidance) and care (primary, acute care boundaries changing and merging with social care to sustainably preserve the economic health of a nation);
- that the health and care revolution must be powered by the use of innovative new technologies that build on existing (and ongoing) investments in health records and other clinical support systems, interoperability standards etc. These new, Web 2.0 and collaborative technologies are capable of being used to dramatically, and quickly, address the core issues of access, quality, affordability and sustainability of care. However, payer and provider organisations need to recognise that these Web 2.0 and collaborative technologies are fundamentally different from previous technologies in their design & deployment, their ownership and interactions with users. They allow for increasingly borderless processes across professional and organisational boundaries, and support the twin drivers of a move to prevention and earlier intervention in disease combined with the ability to make resources increasingly less location dependent and more accessible.
- that the future is already here in micro-examples that illustrate some of the guiding principles behind innovation using Web 2.0 and collaborative approaches, and the technical approaches that can support the changes in the way people work inside, with and for health & care systems;
- that technology is only one component of the revolutionary change that health & care must start; but an essential part.
Audience:
Senior Clinical leadership - exposure to the art of the possible technical innovation in information systems to support the radical changes in care delivery they must make
Senior Management Leadership in Public and Private Payer and Provider organisations - exposure to new ideas and principles that they must allow to flourish if they are to get the maximum benefit from the use on innovative technologies
Policy Makers - exposure to the art of the possible so that they can imagine new services for their citizens and customers
CIOs at every level - exposure to a new domain of technologies that can support the business change; and to give ideas and ammunition to convince their clinical and managerial leaders that investment is required in time and resources for new Web 2.0 and collaborative technologies.