Relentless Health Value

Generally, there’s lots of talk about moonshots. Everyone wants to be the AirBnB of HC or the Uber of HC. But there’s plenty of innovation that is desperately needed, very low to the ground. No need to go searching the moon for it. Today, I speak with John Lynn, founder of HealthcareScene.com and organizer of the brand new Health IT Expo coming to NOLA at the end of May 2018. John and I talk about the 7 types of innovation that are not disruptive or breakthrough kinds of innovation. Things like fixing patient check-in, or better EHR UX or ways to document notes or desktop management. All these “little” things that have enormous impact on our day-to-day and which are totally overlooked when we shoot for moons. BTW John is giving Relentless Health Value listeners a promo code worth $600 to Health IT Expo – it’s RELENTLESS. I’ll be there, and I’m looking forward to meeting you if you come.

John Lynn is the founder of the HealthcareScene.com network which currently consists of 10 blogs containing over 11,000 articles with John having written over half of the articles himself. These EMR and health care IT-related articles have been viewed over 18 million times.

John also manages HealthcareITCentral.com and HealthcareITToday.com, the leading career Health IT job board and blog. He also organized the first of its kind conference and community focused on marketing to healthcare: HealthITMarketingConference.com. Plus, he just launched Health IT Expo, a conference focused on practical health care IT innovation.

John is an advisor to multiple health care IT companies and a highly sought-after keynote speaker. John is deeply involved in social media and, in addition to his blogs, can be found on Twitter: @techguy and @ehrandhit.

00:00 Focusing on bettering and evolving the day-to-day.
03:30 Discussing innovations beyond the disruptive innovations.
06:20 “We shouldn’t stop iterating on what we’ve already invented.”
07:00 “How do we improve our existing system?”
08:11 Ray Dalio’s “Principles: Life and Work.”
10:40 The stepwise improvements of health care.
16:45 The difficulty of recognizing and documenting incremental innovation.
21:00 Service Innovation, Business Model Innovation, Outcome-driven Innovation, and Organization Innovation
21:15 Telemedicine and Value-Based Reimbursement Models
21:30 People management solutions.
22:15 Barcode medication management systems.
23:50 Growing change management.
24:20 Making change approachable and the key to preventing impediments to change.
26:30 Practical advice for practical innovation.
28:15 “How do we allow vendors to become part of this process?”
29:00 Creating a collaborative relationship between an IT health professional and vendors.
29:27 “How can I improve what I’m doing?”
30:45 You can learn more at healthcarescene.com and at expo.health.
31:40 Use the promo code RELENTLESS to get $600 off of the Health IT Expo registration price.