Forbes Column: Healing Health Care
Check other articles in the series...Zero-In this week takes a look at one of the most daunting issues of our time, health care, and calls for a bubble for that industry, so that capital, entrepreneurs and jobs flow into it over the next decade. Read Healing Health Care on Forbes.
The biggest issue plaguing this industry is its broken business model. Incentives are not aligned appropriately to serve the best interests of the key stakeholder: the patient. In the upcoming months, we will look closely at various entrepreneurial and policy level efforts to course correct, and solve the problems.
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Thanks for the wonderful article There are many web companies innovating in the healthcare space working on PHR/EMRs, patient social networks and medical ecommerce solutions. Some are featured regularly at http://www.thehealthcareblog.com and its associate Health 2.0 conference.
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