Disruptive innovation in health information management, Introductory post

Disruptive-Innovation-in-HIM-cover-book-mock-up

Way back to my post The Innovator’s Prescription by Clay Christensen, a early review of this book (this link will open in a new tab of your current window) dated 20 May 2012, I introduced to you this book. I finished reading this book some months back and kept on hold posts on it until now.

I shall not be writing a book review nor a book summary but I have decided to illustrate how enablers of disruptive innovation specifically in health information management can combine to transform the very expensive care from highly trained professionals into one that is much more affordable, accessible, of better quality and simple.

The agent of transformation is disruptive innovation. It consists of three elements:

  1. Technological enabler
  2. Business model innovation
  3. Value network

The diagram below shows these elements with regulatory reforms and new industry standards facilitating or lubricating interactions among these enablers in the new disruptive healthcare industry.

Elements of disruptive innovation

I shall end this post at this point, with more posts to come.

References:

  1. Christensen, CM, Grossman, JH, and Hwang, J, 2009, The Innovator’s Prescription, A Disruptive Solution for Health Care, McGraw-Hill, New York, USA