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One week ago

The Open Group to Hold Upcoming Event in Amsterdam

The Open Group, the vendor-neutral technology standards consortium, is hosting its upcoming event in Amsterdam, November 4 – 7, 2019. The Open Group Amsterdam 2019 will bring together vendors and end user organizations to discuss a range of topics focused around a central theme of Agile Architecture. The event will host attendees from throughout the globe, including decision-makers, Enterprise Architects, engineers, technologists, and end-users representing many businesses and governments.

5 months, 29 days ago

Is there a Single Version of Truth about Statins?

by Richard Veryard

@bengoldacre provides some useful commentary on a BBC news item about statins. In particular, he notes a detail from the original research paper that didn’t make it into the BBC news item – namely the remarkable lack of agreement between GPs and hospit…

1 year, 1 month ago

Best Buys’s GreatCall Expands Its Adjacent Industry Disruption

by James Staten

Best Buy has made yet another startup acquisition that enriches its customer value with innovative digital products – GreatCall, a San Diego-based startup offering health and medical-alert devices and services. Most retailers “innovations&#…

1 year, 4 months ago

Open Group, HERA and healthcare

by Tom Graves

The Open Group’s Healthcare Forum recently published (free, but registration required) their version 0.1 ‘snapshot’ for HERA, their proposed ‘Healthcare Enterprise Reference Architecture’. What follows is a quick(ish) review, together with some practical recommendations. I’ll try to be nice –…

Transforming Healthcare Through Technology

by Arielle Trzcinski

I have dedicated my career to healthcare technology. Why? Because I am passionate about putting the patient at the center of their care and believe technology is a catalytic agent that will help organizations achieve that goal. Forrester helps clients …

1 year, 6 months ago

Ethics as a Service

by Richard Veryard

In the real world, ethics is rarely if ever the primary focus. People engaging with practical issues may need guidance or prompts to engage with ethical questions, as well as appropriate levels of governance.@JPSlosar ‏calls for”a set of easily recogni…

1 year, 8 months ago

The Hungry Tapeworm

by Richard Veryard

This week, three American companies announced a joint venture to sort out healthcare for their own employees. Ambitious, huh?This is not the first time large American companies have tried to challenge tho market power of healthcare providers. According…

1 year, 8 months ago

Healthcare Industry Not Immune From Amazon Effect

by Kate McCarthy

Perhaps no company has been so consistently disruptive as Amazon. Their ability to step in to new markets and upend the status quo by delivering consistent customer experiences with digital innovation that provide scale and price competition is unrival…

1 year, 9 months ago

As CVS Goes Post-Digital, Walgreens Reverts to Pre-Digital

by Jim Nail

For a case study on how marketing must break from past practices, one needn’t look further than two recent announcements, one from CVS and the other from Walgreens. One company is pushing the boundaries of retail healthcare; the other is looking back a…

1 year, 9 months ago

Healthcare Predictions 2018

by Kate McCarthy

Digital Will Disrupt Siloed Healthcare Ecosystems in 2018 For those who have alarm fatigue from all the times disruption has been predicted for our industry, but never came to fruition, this time is different. All the drivers for change remain –c…

1 year, 10 months ago

Consumer Good Unclear in CVS/Aetna Merger

by Kate McCarthy

CVS and Aetna have formalized a merger agreement with CVS set to acquire Aetna for roughly $69 Billion dollars. In deals of this nature, approval hinges on one thing: consumer good. The Department of Justice evaluates mergers of this magnitude to ensur…

1 year, 10 months ago

Consumer Good Unclear in CVS/Aetna Merger

by Kate McCarthy