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when he's approaching the high-risk part of a procedure.
New thinking
Disruptive technology and platforms are already mainstream in the consumer
world, but there are barriers that need to be overcome before their full potential is
realized in health care. Forward-thinking leaders need to figure out how to align
incentives, pay for the technology, integrate it into the clinical workflow and lever-
age it against challenging regulatory and reimbursement requirements. Patient
data is often still siloed in systems that don't communicate. Well-meaning, but
antiquated, regulations that aren't applicable to how data are collected in 2016
don't allow information to flow as smoothly as it could.
It's time for you to engage patients in smarter ways. It's time to accept the
many ways technology can improve the efficiency and performance of your sur-
gical team. It's time to let innovations disrupt your assumptions about the tradi-
tional healthcare delivery model before you're someday reading about surgery's
hottest technologies on your clunky iPhone 6.
OSM
Dr. Kraft (daniel.kraft@singularityu.org) is the faculty chair for medicine at
Singularity University in Moffett Field, Calif., and founder and curator of Exponential
Medicine (exponentialmedicine.com), a conference dedicated to the reinvention of health
care.
