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Jun 15, 2015

Black Swans Are Coming To HIT: A Piece From June’s H.I.T. Greatest Hits

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We have written extensively about the confluence of advanced technologies and their impact on our healthcare system. Perhaps it is now appropriate to go a step further and think about which high-impact innovations could go beyond our realm of normal expectations and create true Black Swans in our industry. Let’s use a recent article we read about pattern recognition as an example. This article connects the dots between the invention of printing press (a Black Swan for sure) and the discovery of semiconductors, and it goes like this: In 1450, when printing press was invented and people started to read…

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Apr 20, 2015

What’s Hot in Healthcare Tech – HIMSS 2015

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HIMSS started with the eye popping news that IBM acquired two analytics companies in one day. Phytel, a leading Population Health Management company and Explorys, a predictive software company will be incorporated into IBM Watson. Rumors are that IBM paid an aggregate of $750MM for both. IBM is now clearly making a big push into healthcare IT. As part of the acquisition announcement, IBM also created a dedicated business unit – IBM Watson Health (to be headquartered in Boston, MA) – featuring a HIPAA-enabled, open platform Watson Health Cloud. Will other big, diversified technology companies make moves to respond? Analytics clearly…

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Jan 10, 2014

H.I.T. Greatest Hits- January Healthcare IT Review

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Happy New Year to our Clients and Friends, It is that time of the year to look in our crystal ball and share our top predictions for 2014 — here is what we see in the healthcare IT landscape. Click here for the H.I.T. Greatest Hits Revenues for healthcare technology companies will grow 8-10%, with some sectors, such as data analytics, growing at a much faster rate. We anticipate 3-5% growth in healthcare services expenditures. The confluence of ICD-10 adoption and value-based reimbursement coupled with continuing cutbacks in Medicare rates, all point to a challenging 2014 for the providers, even…

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Dec 10, 2013

Marlin & Associates H.I.T. Greatest Hits – December Healthcare IT Review

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Dear Clients and Friends, There are over 43,000 mobile healthcare applications currently in the market. As providers start “prescribing” healthcare  applications, the mRx (m for mobile) industry is slowly becoming an integral part of medical treatment — enabling patients to monitor and manage their health in ways never before imagined. This in turn has the potential to reduce hospital readmission rates, increase patient satisfaction and motivate patients to better adhere to their medication. Click here for the H.I.T. Greatest Hits The U.S. FDA cites industry estimates that more than 500 million smartphone users worldwide will use some type of health…

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Jun 4, 2013

Marlin & Associates H.I.T. Greatest Hits- June Healthcare IT Review

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Dear Clients and Friends, Welcome to our June issue of H.I.T. Greatest Hits. Click here for H.I.T. Greatest Hits Our industry is in the process of migrating from the “mainframe” era of healthcare to the “personal computing” phase where the accessibility of technology spreads from a privileged few to the many. We still have a long way to go to reach the “web” era in healthcare. The journey has just begun but the change is coming faster than some might imagine. We can already see the promise of new technologies, including precision diagnostics (covered in more detail in this newsletter) and…

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