The Platform For Performance

Health and human service executives have always maintained that health care is “different” than the rest of commerce—and I don't disagree. Health care is indispensable to the wellbeing of every human. It is scientific, cultural, ethical, and financed in large part by government or government subsidies.

But these differences cannot insulate the “business” of health care from the computing technologies that have changed the rest of commerce and the world. Reading an article from a few years ago, 25 Technologies That Have Changed The World, provided me with food for thought about the technologies that have reshaped other . . .