Health IT Analytics September 11, 2017
Is $10 billion all it will take to address the fundamental big data analytics, payment reform, and productivity shortcomings of the healthcare industry?
“Give me a lever long enough and a firm place to stand, and I shall move the world,” declared Archimedes in defense of the notion that with the right tools in place, the targeted application of a little force could shift a mass that seems far beyond its ability to impact.
The healthcare industry is no stranger to weighty problems, including skyrocketing costs, slumping provider productivity, and the near-universal lack of big data liquidity – and it has certainly tried to implement its fair share of forceful solutions.
Top-down regulatory solutions backed by financial penalties, such as...