Welcome and Introduction
summary
Introduces why health IT matters: electronic health records act as a platform that enables feedback loops to spot ineffective procedures and high-cost providers, with the Recovery Act dangling $20 billion in incentive payments for “meaningful use” rather than prescribing software. Gives concrete examples: open data efforts like the HHS Hospital Compare and the health2o challenge release Medicare data for analysis; consumer devices such as Philips DirectLife and sensor pill bottles already feed patient data into the system.
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chapters (6)
- 0:00Government as a platform
- 2:35Lessons from GPS history
- 4:44Fixing healthcare with tech
- 8:36The quantified self
- 10:22Open data and innovation
- 12:04Incentivizing meaningful use
