Clayton Christensen
The term "disruptive innovation" has become so much of a buzz word, it's not uncommon to hear it applied to just about any radical shift in care. But for Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen, who invented the term, it has a very particular meaning. Most innovations are "sustaining innovations" -- they make an existing product better and cheaper for its...
"Maybe with all that ARRA money floating about in the HITECH Act, ONC should just go ahead and build such an 'open' platform that supports modular apps to meet specific needs wihin this highly fragmented market. Seriously, this needs some consideration," Chilmark Research Principal John Moore wrote last year after reading about a proposal by Boston researchers to create an "iPhone-like" platform...
As I mentioned yesterday, it looks like mobile phone accessible PHRs could be the break-out topic at the Wolrd Health Care Congress in Washington, D.C. next week. It's timely then that Clayton Christensen, author of The Innovator's Prescription: A Disruptive Solution for Health Care, recently gave an interview in which he declared personal electronic health records (PEHRs) on the mobile phone a "...
