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How will the Internet of Things change our world?

freshminds

A tag which a smartphone must 'tap' to register it e.g. purchasing cereal by tapping smartphone on the box or to track dosage of medicines given in hospital by whom and when. With the healthcare market being one of ten markets that are investing in such sensors, we can expect more innovations to be released before too long.

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Blockchain for Supply Chain – Insights from Berlin

Tom Spencer

And so I had a moment while listening to the recording of that interview that I realized the many industries it could participate in outside of finance, it also showed up in energy and even healthcare. So if you’re trying to track the whole lifecycle of a good, you’ll need to have a unique way of tagging and identifying the good, right?

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Why Are We Still Classifying Companies by Industry?

Harvard Business

Over the past five years, Apple and Google have made significant moves in the automotive, healthcare, media, and smart home markets, among many others. They have expanded far beyond the “Information Technology” tag attached to them by GICS. Industry walls are disintegrating at a rapid pace.

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How Hospitals Are Using Patient-Reported Outcomes to Improve Care

Harvard Business

In addition, academic clinicians at the university are using PRO responses to tag patients eligible for clinical studies targeting pain, substance abuse, and compliance with medication regimes. Aligning Expectations and Enhancing Care.

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3 Business Models That Could Bring Million-Dollar Cures to Everyone

Harvard Business

In a recent Goldman Sachs research report about the promise of gene therapies, analysts asked a question that gets to the heart of a growing dilemma for the healthcare sector: “Is curing patients a sustainable business model?” But there was a catch: the one-time treatment, Luxturna from Spark Therapeutics, costs $850,000.

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Drug Pricing in the United States

Tom Spencer

Because the markets for a number of prescription drugs that treat aggressive and life-threatening diseases have minimal competition, these medications usually come with pretty steep price tags. He’s most passionate about healthcare redesign, patient engagement, and the life sciences. Image: Pexels.

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The Management Thinker We Should Never Have Forgotten

Harvard Business

I made the journey to attend a health care confab where Don Berwick, the former head of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, was delivering the opening lecture. Berwick’s talk began by deftly comparing Frederick Winslow Taylor and W. Build quality into a product throughout production.