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Mike Lacon/flickr Lowering Health Care Costs Is Hard Because Every Patient Is Unique
The value-based healthcare movement's effort to cut costs and improve healthcare outcomes doesn't realize that patients' conditions are rarely homogenous.
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Getting to the Right Relationship Between Doctors and Drug Companies
There is a way to cultivate, not demonize, collaboration between physicians and pharma.
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What Business Can Learn From Medicine
Question the intuitive "best" practice; never assume we know enough.
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Humanism in Digital Health: Do We Have to Sacrifice Personal Connections as We Improve Efficiency?
The human connection is threatened by a reductive focus on data collection, algorithms, and information transaction.
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A Database of All Medical Knowledge: Why Not?
Physicians won't become obsolete any time soon, but the comprehensive integration of everything we know about well-being could revolutionize medical care.
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Preserving American (Medical) Exceptionalism
America must recommit to U.S. medical culture's first principles.
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A Future We Make for Ourselves: Should We Expand Imperfect Treatments, or Create New Ones?
The Supreme Court's recent decision on health care exposes an age-old debate: focus resources on the treatments we have, or set our sights on pricey research for future cures?
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Is One Company About to Lock Up the Electronic Medical Records Market?
Will Silicon Valley lead health care's next revolution -- or miss it?
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Will Patients Bear the Burden for Developing Their Own Treatments?
Soon, you won't only be responsible for managing your disease -- you may also be expected to help find your own cure.
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Mission Critical: How Translation-Focused Disease Foundations May Save Medical Research
Successfully translating scientific discoveries requires a primal sense of urgency, which some disease foundations seem to have, and many big pharmas appear to need.
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Decoding Phenotype: The Holy Grail for Today's Medical Scientists
We've figured out DNA, but we need to start watching how it interacts with the environment.
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Balancing Disruptive Innovation and Incremental Progress in Medicine
The entrepreneur and process methods -- two ways of dealing with the problems created by a business segregated into extreme phenotypes
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What the Health-Care Industry Can Learn From Technology Start-Ups
In the development of drugs, it's too difficult to change things on the fly, and to rapidly pivot in response to an appreciation of customer need
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America's Healthy Infatuation With Entrepreneurs
At large, established companies, doing old things more efficiently becomes more important than doing new things. That's the problem.
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Are Doctors Becoming Obsolete?
The challenge for medicine is not only to utilize patient-focused technologies, but also to recognize the unquantifiable benefit that comes from a reassuring nod, a hand on the shoulder
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Design Can Improve Healthcare; Can It Also Lead to New Cures?
The kind of design thinking championed by Steve Jobs -- human-centered, iterative, and practical -- can fix more than just our gadgets
