I might repost this article when we begin talking about healthcare but I think his ideas behind a different type of technological convergence are interesting. Dr. Chaiken believes that Thomas Friedman's "Triple Convergence Factors" have not yet been experienced in health care. He suggets that market penetration of IT tools is continuing in the health sector and that paitents and doctors are beginning to collaborate in new ways.
However, he goes on to speak about the need for processes in health care to be modified as technology is adopted. He has a vision of the role of the physician changing. Specifically he sees the physcian being only concerned with contextual knowledge in healthcare and the codified information left to technology and other types of providers (ie nurses)
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It is clear that the healthcare sector is much behind in terms of embracing and exploiting technology. The questions that we will address later on are: what are the pressures on the sector to transform? What does that mean for core processes? What expertise (contextual versus codified) will drive monetization and value creation? Good post.... Worth revisiting it later on when we discuss the sector.
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