These are the slides from a talk I gave on healthcare IT trends to a group of local healthcare entrepreneurs and enthusiasts.

1. Healthcare Information
Technology
Trends and Opportunities
David Edgerton, Jr.
Healthcare.mn
February 3, 2014

2. Topics
Healthcare IT Industry
Trends
The Opportunities

3. The Healthcare IT Industry
Health care is the largest sector of
the U.S. economy ($ 2.8 trillion in
2012)
The health care IT market is
expected to grow at a compound
annual rate of 16 percent, reaching
$ 53.8 billion worldwide by 2014
(MarketResearch.com, 2009).

4. Healthcare Industry Structure
(Gartner)

5. Incentives for Change in
Healthcare
The pressure to cut healthcare costs
Demand to integrate healthcare
systems
Higher rate of return on investment in
healthcare systems
Financial support and incentives from
the U.S. government
Government initiatives, the rise in the

6. Healthcare IT Spend by
Vendor (Gartner)

7. Percentage of IT Spending in
Healthcare (Gartner)

8. Current IT Trends in
Healthcare
The electronic health
record
market, meanwhile, hit
$20 billion in
2012 (Kalorama
Information, 2013)
The global mHealth app
services market is set to
reach $26 billion by 2017
(research2guidance, 2013

9. Current IT Trends in
Healthcare
Mobile Networking - 3 million
patients will be monitored via
mobile networks by 2016
Desktop Virtualization – 70% of
hospitals identified thin or zero
(ultra-thin) clients as their
preferred endpoint.

10. Current IT Trends in
Healthcare
Mobility at The Patient Bedside –
66% of doctors use iPads or other
tablets for medical purposes, up
from 45% a year earlier.
Data Will Continue to Play A Role
– 10% of hospitals implemented
data analytics tools in 2011. 50%
are predicted to do so by 2016.

11. Themes for New Market
Opportunities in Healthcare IT
Health Hyper Efficiency
The Personalized Health
Movement
Digital Peer-to-Peer Healthcare

12. Health Hyper Efficiency
Empathetic Interfaces: Incorporate more
intuitive design and processes aimed at making
digital tools more responsive to emotional
needs, or more human-like.
Unhealthy Surveillance: New surveillance
technologies combine large amounts of data
and raise significant privacy and security
concerns.
Predictive Psychohistory: Big Data are
increasingly being used to make large- and
small-scale predictions about individual and

13. The Personalized
Health Movement
The Over-Quantified Self: As the volume of
clinical and health information collected from
wearable computers, passive sensors, and more
increases, consumers will struggle to find true
actionable value beyond "feel good stats" in this
flood of data
Multicultural Misalignment: Health
technologies will be less effective if they are not
optimized to account for differences in age,
ethnicity, culture, and more. A range of
organizations and businesses will work to provide
unique and effective digital health tools to diverse

14. The Personalized
Health Movement
Micro-Health Rewards: Inspired by
federal legislation and a deeper
understanding of behavioral
science, insurers, corporations, health
providers, and others will apply game
theory to encourage people to adopt
and sustain healthy behaviors by
offering them tangible rewards (or
punishments) as incentives.

15. Digital Peer-to-Peer
Healthcare
Virtual Counseling: Seeking emotional
and logistical support, people forge oneto-one relationships online to offer
assistance with navigating the new
health insurance landscape, provide
virtual moral support, "sponsor" one
another, and share unique knowledge
about conditions, ailments, and
caregiving.

16. Digital Peer-to-Peer
Healthcare
CareHacking: Forced to increasingly take
responsibility for their own care in a complex
system, digitally savvy health consumers
combine information from doctors, the
Web, electronic medical records, and other
sources to "hack" the health system in an
effort to educate themselves, navigate
loopholes, and ultimately get better, lower
cost, and faster care for themselves and
those they love.

17. Great Books on
Healthcare IT and Trends

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