Monday, July 9, 2012

How Connected Health, Public-Private Cooperation, And Big Data Can Revolutionize Health Care

Ranck, Jody."How Connected Health, Public-Private Cooperation, And Big Data Can Revolutionize Health Care." Forbes, July 6, 2012.

From the blog: "There is hope and promising signs that these tools can be mobilized to make a dent in some of the major challenges we face such as obesity, diabetes, environmental health, and a host of other areas if we can bring politics, technology, and both the public and private sectors into the right relationship in the coming years. Technology can’t do it alone. Nor will antiquated political hubris of “death panels” and market fundamentalism fix health care. In my new book, “Connected Health: How Mobiles, Cloud and Big Data Will Reinvent Healthcare”, I explore how this might happen if we can think more strategically and engage in more grassroots efforts to engage with the “Algorithmic Revolution” in healthcare." Read more