Things change pretty fast in health IT, don’t they?

Yes, things do change pretty fast in health IT. I realized this over the past couple of weeks when I updated my database of contacts by scanning and categorizing about 300 business cards I’ve collected over the past 2½ years. (I really let things pile up this time. Now that my desk is reasonably clean, I hope I never do that again. I can claim extraordinary circumstances in 2012, but that only accounts for one year.) What really struck me, in addition to the amount of time I let this slide, is the number of new categories I had to create in the database and the number I had to modify. My contacts go back to when I started covering healthcare in October 2000, and I’ve had a card scanner for at least 10 years. I had “PDA” and “ASP” as two of the choices until I changed them to “smartphone” and “SaaS” within the last couple of years. Here are a few terms that are new in my database since I last did a thorough update, probably early in 2011: accountable care analytics (as opposed to data mining) business incubator remote monitoring I also can’t believe I didn’t have CIO as a category until this month. Some of the changes reflect a shift in what I’ve covered, but some terms are pretty new. Did you know what accountable care was prior to 2010? Were there many business incubators or accelerators in healthcare before Rock Health started up in 2011? I don’t know of any. By the same token, when was t...
Source: Neil Versel's Healthcare IT Blog - Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Tags: accelerators Accountable Care Organizations CIOs data mining Innovation mobile personal notes philanthropy remote monitoring RHIO analytics ASP Health information exchange healthcare costs home monitoring Rock Health Source Type: blogs