Disruptive Digital Transformation of HealthCare:
True "disruptive digital transformation" occurs when an industries "core consumer product" is digitized. When music was digitized, Steve Jobs disrupted its distribution industry with iTunes. The advent of GPS digital technology disrupted the mapping, navigation and transportation industries forever. And the disruption caused when photography was digitized yielded the descriptive term for companies that lack the vision to see the opportunities resulting from the "digitization of their industry's core consumer product", their "KODAK Moment".
HealthCare’s "consumer product is KNOWLEDGE". Our doctors, nurses and pharmacists endure long term education and internships to develop this diagnostic, drug and therapy knowledge. This product is defined and personalized during the typical 15 minute episodic "visit". Although the product is digitized with the E-prescription and EHR systems, the deliverable to the consumer is an analog document known as the "After Visit Summary" along with a bottle of pills or two, in combination known as the "prescription".
The prescription is the sole TOOL provided to the consumer to manage their treatment between visits and it is up to the consumer to make it actionable. For healthcare's largest consumer group, the almost 150M US adults with chronic disease self-managing 95% of their treatment, this analog TOOL results in majority non-adherence with grave human and financial consequences.
Our patent covers a simple and cost-effective method to make the "prescription" digitally actionable in the improvement of health. Digitally integrating healthcare's consumer product with any Smartphone can yield digital adherence determination, automated self-management support 24/7, digital expansion of clinician capacity and a more comprehensive 24/7 EHR@Home.
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