| | July 20188UTLOOK Healthcare Tech Much of the world is focused on the latest sizzle of big data, artificial intelligence (AI), internet-of-things (IoT), augmented reality and machine learning. When you add a dose of predictive analytics, you have a promising and exciting formula for business and enterprise solutions for the incessant challenges posed by healthcare. This is easily understandable as there are many tangible wins that such systems and platforms have already delivered on, and continue to do so with speed and value. An old friend has a new book that I think is somewhat of a harbinger of what we can expect in the near future of healthcare, medicine, and technology. Joshua Cooper Ramo recently penned The Seventh Sense. The title is a bit of an homage to what comes after Nietzsche's sixth sense (a sense or understanding of history or context) and Josh explains the importance of "...understanding our new age of networks. Not merely the Internet, but also webs of trade, finance, and even DNA." Indeed, we are just at the beginning of integrative understanding of complexly connected and seemingly diverse areas with a greater integrative ability than ever before. Enterprise architecture is the structure from which synthetic understanding and action will result. I believe that the proverbial value proposition in healthcare is a bit different from general commerce in that value is delivered with clinical outcomes divided by cost. There are, of course, a myriad of technologies in medicine that are not digital or enterprise-based (e.g., pharmaceuticals, many device manufacturers, and more). In this conversation I will limit my perspective to the digital and enterprise spheres. Key factors of expeditious healthcare delivery is what cloud computing can deliver such as scalability and secure access of patient data in real-time via data feeds of sensors, HEALTHCARE TECHNOLOGY DISRUPTION AND NETWORKED SOLUTIONSBy Dr. Chris Stout, Vice President, Department of Clinical Research and Data Analytics, ATI Holdings, LLCDr. Chris StoutIN MY OPINION
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