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ONC’S HEALTHCARE IT VISION: ON COURSE OR ALONG FOR THE RIDE?

Posted on January 22, 2015 by Hydrakos

Last June the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) issued a report called “Connecting Health and Care for the Nation: A 10-Year Vision to Achieve an Interoperable Health IT Infrastructure.” Its vision for the future is of an “interoperable health IT

Posted in Strategy

DELIVERING ON THE PROMISE OF BIG DATA

Posted on October 14, 2014 by Hydrakos

In his book Social Physics: How Good Ideas Spread, Alex Pentland, sets his sights on, among other things, “entire cities” as targets for solutions based on Big Data. Pentland defines Social Physics this way: “social physics seeks to understand how the flow of ideas and

Posted in Governance

DISRUPTIVE INNOVATION GETS A CRITICAL LOOK

Posted on July 20, 2014 by Hydrakos

Among the advice I recently gave to a client as input to an innovation offsite was what seemed to me the almost too obvious: think in terms of sustaining versus disruptive innovation as advised by Clayton Christensen in The Innovator’s Dilemma. This concept has become

Posted in Trends

AVOIDING THE NEED TO “TURN IT UP A NOTCH!”

Posted on May 29, 2014 by Hydrakos

Back when I was managing software development, there was a phrase I used to use when project deadlines were approaching: “Turn it up a notch!” Needless to say, that did not always go over well with the developers. There are always going to be projects

Posted in Governance

DOES STP HAVE ANYTHING TO TEACH MEANINGFUL USE?

Posted on April 17, 2014 by Hydrakos

Perspective is a fascinating concept. If you’ve had the good fortune to visit the Taj Mahal, you may have a picture of yourself appearing to hold the amazing white marble structure by its finial as if it were a small toy, a perspective distorting feat

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WEAVING THE THREADS OF DATA, THE CLOUD AND ENGAGEMENT

Posted on February 27, 2014 by Hydrakos

Traffic jams in India can be amazing for the variety of vehicles, the cacophony of horns and their sheer scale. Sitting in one a while ago in a hotel car – a BMW 7 series – I was given a demonstration by the driver of

Posted in Governance