After an Audax Health Solutions board meeting last week, Rick Klausner, Nick Augustinos and I had a stimulating conversation at lunch that got me thinking.
Nick told us a story he had heard about someone in 1941 who vividly remembered that he was at a baseball park watching a MLB game when Pearl Harbor was attacked. The problem was, there was no major league baseball game being played on December 7.
Everywhere I go, someone is on a Samsung or Apple mobile device. A few years ago, I first started seeing people on planes working on their iPads; today I see iPads at every meeting I go to. More and more, I see Samsung Galaxy S3s. I’ve seen a lot of Surface advertising and I’ve had a hands-on try of a Surface several times at one of the many Surface demo booths.
The marvel of a magician’s magic is not about what the audience sees; it’s about what they didn’t see. Here’s one really interesting healthcare revolution that should have a very positive impact on the future of healthcare spend – one that has been largely overlooked by politicians, lobbyists and Washington lawyers.
I gave a speech this week at a Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) conference, the largest healthcare event in America. My topic was “Disruptive Innovation and the Consumerization of Healthcare.” As I think about it, the healthcare industry could learn a really good lesson from Kodak.