Social, Mobile, Analytics, and Cloud

On Monday at HIMSS, I signed my new book, Life as a Heathcare CIO for 300 folks at HIMSS.   During the rest of the day I met with numerous companies, leaders, and fellow IT professionals.   The theme I heard frequently was the need for care management/population health applications based on data acquisition, normalization, mining, and workflow.   Common characteristics of such applications included social networking features to gather data from patients/families/providers, a mobile component, a predictive analytics component, and cloud hosting.I had no idea that the major consulting companies and analysts  have  already coined the SMAC acronym for this nexus of ideas (social, mobile, analytics, cloud)As I walked the HIMSS floor, some of the care management applications I saw were real, developed in platforms like Salesforce and PegaSystems.   Others were “deployed” in Powerpoint, which is a powerful development language used by marketing departments to quickly author software :-)As Accountable Care Organizations focus on continuous wellness rather than episodic sickness, the market for new tools will grow exponentially.    We have to be careful that social, mobile, analytics, and cloud (SMAC) does not become social, cloud, analytics and mobile (SCAM).Here are few characteristics to look for in real care management/population health software1.  Cohort identification - how can patients be enrolled in disease management and care m...
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