In-betweenisode 1: NYeC Digital Health Convention 2014 Recap & Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving!! Most importantly, happy Thanksgiving to you and yours. Here at the Relentless Health Value podcast, we are grateful to you for listening. 5 Takeaways from the NYeC Digital Health Conference 2014 ACA's payment reform means the business model for HC needs to adapt.Ezekiel Emanuel: "If we really want the digital medicine of the future, we're going to have push hard on payment reform for it." Eric Topol: Need to move to capitation, bundled payments, two-side risk Jacob Reider: "Sharing risk provides incentive to share health information ~ new business models will promote interoperability" Technology enables personalized medicine at scale — and personalized medicine is a must-have for successful population health. -Personalized medicine for treatment decisions.Every hospital should be able #genesequence suspected #infections instead of wait 3 days for culture results. @EricTopol  -Personalized medicine of the pillClose to 55% of drugs prescribed are ineffective for the patients they are prescribed for, per @gnshealthcare  -Personalized patient engagement" There's got to be a better way" than just "take a pill that will solve all your problems" - Sky Christopherson an olympic cyclist & coach who demonstrated by using data, not drugs to break world records and win olympicsBecause most health decisions happen between visits. whether a drug works or not depends on whether the patient takes it, and that is a decision solely in the patients hands. Technology demands an Uber-Doctor - a new kind of doctor.The job of the physician is changing due to manifold external pressures: -Pressures transforming the role of the physician. Shown by Eric Topol. -Docs be less involved in diagnosis. there are plenty of scans, labs, imaging so patients will be able to self-monitor and technology might read their results at a grand scale. Sharing and collaborating requires trust and shared priorities.Trust someone won't abuse private info. How do you remove the business interests that are barriers to sharing data - David Liss How do you create trust? Listen to last week's podcast with Charlie Green from Trusted Advisors: http://relentlesshealthvalue.com/21/ The decentralization of healthcare providers and re-centralization around the patient.We need an internet of You. The patient is the only common entity between healthcare sites. "Internet of You" will require a customizable, interoperable platform that connects Internet-enabled devices. Care no longer in the locus of the hospital. no longer centralized. care all over the place. in the home. via telemedicine.