Brian Kalis

Healthcare consumers are becoming more digital, yet health insurers lag other industries in digital engagement. As consumers’ “digital intensity” grows, they are less likely to see differentiation among insurers—and more likely to shop around.

Silver surfers—people age 65 and over who use digital technology in their daily lives—are shattering myths about seniors’ use of ehealth, how they value it, and what they expect of a technology-enabled health system, reveals the 2016 Accenture Consumer Survey on Patient Engagement.
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Globally, and across multiple industries, an innovative model is emerging that enables faster,
more efficient and highly secure business-to-business and business-to-consumer transactions.
Many involved in healthcare hope the same distributed database technologies enabling this new
model can drive similar results within the industry and, as with many other major innovations,
recognize that confusion and hype can mask the potential of real world applications. Known as
blockchain… Show more

Globally, and across multiple industries, an innovative model is emerging that enables faster,
more efficient and highly secure business-to-business and business-to-consumer transactions.
Many involved in healthcare hope the same distributed database technologies enabling this new
model can drive similar results within the industry and, as with many other major innovations,
recognize that confusion and hype can mask the potential of real world applications. Known as
blockchain technologies, these solutions can support many existing healthcare business
processes at a fundamental level. They promise to improve data integrity dramatically while
enabling at-scale interoperability for information exchange, patient tracking, identity assurance
and validation – among healthcare professionals, and between patients, their proxies and their
healthcare providers. Show less

Despite an improvement in overall consumer trust of medical information
sources over the past two years, Accenture research shows that highly digital consumers—those with higher use of digital channels—are more concerned about medical information bias than their
less digital counterparts. That skepticism is eroding traditionally held consumer perceptions about the professional authority of payers and providers.

Winners in the ​​digital age know success comes from more than just completing a checklist of technology. It hinges on people. Keeping up with changing technology is vital. But today, it's just as important to evolve the consumer experience, career development opportunities for the healthcare workforce and care delivery methods. Technology can enable innovation across healthca​re organizations, but people will lead the real evolution.

The Accenture Digital Health Technology Vision 2016… Show more

Winners in the ​​digital age know success comes from more than just completing a checklist of technology. It hinges on people. Keeping up with changing technology is vital. But today, it's just as important to evolve the consumer experience, career development opportunities for the healthcare workforce and care delivery methods. Technology can enable innovation across healthca​re organizations, but people will lead the real evolution.

The Accenture Digital Health Technology Vision 2016 investigates five trends behind a “people-first” approach: Intelligent automation, liquid workforces, the platform economy, predictable disruption and digital trust.

The end goal? Integrating change into your organizational DNA through the most effective means possible. Your people. Show less

Digital is reshaping industries, revolutionizing consumer expectations and shifting more power to consumers creating digital realities we cannot escape. A new model of industry disruption - with new rules of strategy and competition - is needed to explain why this is happening to help organizations compete in the age of devastating innovation. The Healthcare industry is in the Singularity stage of the Big Bang Disruption model signaling the change to come. How can you know what’s next in… Show more

Digital is reshaping industries, revolutionizing consumer expectations and shifting more power to consumers creating digital realities we cannot escape. A new model of industry disruption - with new rules of strategy and competition - is needed to explain why this is happening to help organizations compete in the age of devastating innovation. The Healthcare industry is in the Singularity stage of the Big Bang Disruption model signaling the change to come. How can you know what’s next in this era of gradual, then sudden change? Show less

Today’s model of healthcare provision is becoming increasingly unsustainable. To deliver continued improvements to the world’s health, healthcare will need to be transformed, with digital playing a central role.

Hospitals have only engaged less than 2 percent of their patients using mobile apps.

Healthcare providers that do not meet consumers’ growing desire for mobile patient engagement are at risk of losing customers – and revenue.

The aim of this study was to determine the impact of a targeted, personalized wellness program on reducing employees’ future risk of metabolic syndrome.

DISCLOSURE: I am listed in the acknowledgements section. Not an original author on the publication.

As cyber attackers strike clinical and financial systems, healthcare providers
that do not protect and defend their patients’ data could lose customers and
billions in patient revenue.