Definitely for your weekend perusal, the report issued earlier this month from the first collaboration between HBS and HMS, the Forum on Healthcare Innovation, is derived from the five-panel, two-day conference, ‘Healing Ourselves: Addressing Healthcare’s Innovation Challenge’, held last November at HBS. It centered on ‘Five Imperatives’ :
1. Making Value The Central Objective
2. Promoting Novel Approaches to Process Improvement
3. Making Consumerism Really Work
4. Decentralizing Approaches to Problem Solving
5. Integrating New Approaches Into Established Organizations
Dan Munro’s Forbes article is an excellent summary of a 26 page report. Additional content and videos are available on the Forum’s website. The one certainly worth watching is Clayton Christensen’s as moderator of Panel 4 – Improving the Patient Experience (link) which focused on decentralizing care–pushing care out to consumers via clinics and decentralizing the innovation process. (The Innovator’s Prescription discusses this at length.) What is notable from the initial reading is that no one is discussing ‘technology’, HIT or mobile health specifically or as a panacea–but it is shadowing everything : effectively using patient data, the quality of that data, and ways patients can use information to guide their choices. This doesn’t seem like a single shot effort, so we’ll be watching for Round 2.
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