Becker's Healthcare January 25, 2019
Emily Rappleye

Despite channeling billions of dollars into adopting digital health technology, healthcare has “fundamentally failed” to innovate, claims a viewpoint in The New England Journal of Medicine.

EHRs were widely embraced as key to reform. Yet when this technology is held up against the quadruple aim, it hasn’t meaningfully improved the patient experience, the health of patient populations, the cost of providing care or the lives of healthcare providers, the authors write.

The authors suggest one of the main reasons digital health technology has failed to make a mark on healthcare is because the industry takes a resource-based, rather than service-based, approach to innovation. A services approach focuses on identifying the needs of the consumer and working backward from there. For...

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