5 tech trends affecting nonprofit future
Here’s a statement about 5 info-tech trends that will affect nonprofits in coming years. The list includes:
Evolving CRM
Evolving application specific providers–i.e., access to apps over the Ner rather than in-house
On-demand computing–sort of computing power as a utility
Evolution of online communities
Evolution of data analysis–digging into accumulated information rather than sitting in unorganized heaps
What might it add up to? How about another “virtual” office scenario?
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Start your own EMR
Here’s an interesting notion, partly because this is the second time I’ve heard lately of schemes to put health records and information under the control of individual consumers. This one is a plan to go directly to consumers and encourage them to set up electronic medical records (EMR). It seems to be a kind of end-run around the docs, hospitals, and payers that don’t seem motivated to get it together around electronic records.
"The Secret of Our Sauce"
New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman has commented that America’s answer to offshoring is our innovative and entrepreneurial culture. He says it can’t be duplicated anywhere. With some reservations, I tend to agree with him (some of you may remember our discussion a few months ago of You’re-in-Control at MIT.)
Information-based medicine a la IBM
When you think about major healthcare system players does the name IBM come to mind? Probably not, but maybe it should at least as we move into the future. Four years ago Big Blue opened a department on life science to develop the growing market for high-power computing in research. Now they’ve consolidated it with their medical care branch, and, combined, they employ thousands of scientists and health care experts—in addition to all the programmers, etc.—to develop what they see as a major opportunity.
Their vision of the near-term future of the healthcare system spelled-out in a paper called: “Personalized healthcare 2010: are you ready for information-based medicine?” is a pretty good roadmap to how information-intensive medicine is going to change research and medicine well within the 2015 window of interest to ACS. Sure it’s a marketing vision, but I don’t think it’s too far off the mark. Here’s some of what it says.
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