This web video series features examples of groundbreaking companies, services and products that epitmize the age of smarter analytics, pervasive computing and new intelligence that IBM's new Business Analytics & Optimization Services was created to advance.
See more BAO content and clips at the Global Business Services New Intelligence Video Studio. Know of other analytics innovators we should feature? Share in comments here!
Episode 2:
Jack Mason, Strategic Programs & Social Media
IBM Global Business Services
http://smarterplanet.tumblr.com
How making primary-care physicians the center of America's health-care system could drive down costs
Interesting story in BW that includes some discussion around IBM's patient centered medical home model. Here's an excerpt:
This medical home may sound like the "gatekeeper" model of the 1990s, a managed-care creation that was all about holding down costs. But advocates say the new concept is designed to help patients, not insurers. It's more like doctoring 1950s-style, when a Marcus Welby figure handled all the family's medical needs. This time it's juiced up with digital technology.
It also represents a politically painless way to streamline a disorganized and wasteful system that chews up a crippling 18% of the U.S. gross domestic product. That burden is felt particularly by private industry, which covers 60% of the nation's insured. Since most businesses try to ferret out waste and disorganization in their own operations, the medical home is a concept they can embrace in good conscience.
One of the biggest advocates is IBM (IBM), which shelled out $1.3 billion last year on health benefits for its U.S. employees and retirees, equal to one month of the company's net income. Dr. Paul H. Grundy, 57, who holds the unusual title of director of health-care transformation for IBM, is a medical-home evangelist who led the company to start the Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative, a coalition of some 500 large employers, insurers, consumer groups, and doctors. Part of his goal, he says, is to show that "employers can drive the medical-home idea as buyers of care."
With healthcare reform taking centerstage in Washington in the weeks and months ahead, we wanted to share this section of clips in the IBM Global Business Services Video Studio, which debuted with the launch of IBM's new consulting organization, Business Analytics & Optimization.
Jack Mason, Strategic Programs & Social Media
IBM Global Business Services
http://smarterplanet.tumblr.com
Janet Marchibroda is the chief health care officer of IBM
"As President Obama and Congress take on what the president
in his American Medical Association speech called the "ticking time
bomb" of health care costs, they need to know that they can't succeed
without harnessing the massive data generated by modern medicine.
Getting the best information into the hands of doctors and patients,
while protecting patient privacy, is not just a desire but an
overriding need if we are to get a handle on spiraling costs and also
improve care. "(read the rest @ There Can Be No Health Care Reform Without An Information Revolution - Forbes.com)
IBM System S, which was released in May, has been in the works for more than 20 years. The software uses a new streaming architecture and mathematical algorithms that can analyze thousand of simultaneous data streams in real-time. Officials say organizations, like those in the healthcare industry, will benefit from the technology’s ability to help them improve decision-making. Traditional computing models retrospectively analyze stored data and don’t have the ability to continuously process massive amounts of incoming data streams, they say. (via IBM unveils “stream computing” software | Healthcare IT News)
For more on Smarter Healthcare, see The Smarter Health channel on our Tumblr site.
Jack Mason, Strategic Programs & Social Media
IBM Global Business Services
http://smarterplanet.tumblr.com
The 60 Second Science Blog, from Scientific American, reports:
In addition to the Smarter Healthcare widget seen here in the right column, we've developed other widgets on key Smarter Planet topics that you are welcome to add to your site, page, or blog, or share with your contacts and network. Simply copy and paste the embedding code that works for your site.
Jack Mason, IBM Global Business Services
Strategic Programs & Social Media
Download Patient Center Medical Home (MP3)
The Patient Centered Medical Home: Blogger Briefing on new white paper from IBM's Institute of Business Value, and IBM Healthcare & Life Sciences.
With:
The patient-centered medical home (PCMH) can serve as a foundation for
transformation of the U.S. healthcare system – if appropriately
conceived and properly implemented. But it can also suffer from
unfettered expectations. This study makes the realistic case for why
and how stakeholders can participate in PCMH initiatives, identifies
critical issues and makes recommendations for best practices to
increase the likelihood of initial success and sustainability.
Can you predict and respond to opportunities and threats? Optimize operations to capitalize on new sources of revenue? Proactively manage risk while ensuring efficiency? IBM Business Analytics and Optimization capabilities are your most powerful ally in the new economic environment.
In addition to this overview on this new business analytics focus -- helping to build smarter enterprises, including healthcare organizations -- you can follow developments through two new social media channels:
Jack Mason, IBM Global Business Services, Strategic Programs and Social Media
This week, Smarter Planet moves to the pressing issue of healthcare. As the "op-ad" thought leadership story for this vital topic notes:
"The problems with our healthcare system are well known and well documented and endlessly debated. What's not so apparent is that many of them arise because our healthcare system isn't, in fact, a system."
Adam Christensen's post on the Building a Smarter Planet blog picks up on how of all aspects of smarter planet, healthcare is understandably one that is both deeply personal, as well as a societal front that we all have a vested interest in.
