Amsterdam Has a Deal for Alcoholics: Work Paid in Beer

This is an amazing story and shows how incentives must align with behavior 🙂  While it is unconventional, it shows how creativity can really drive change.

The Strategy That Will Fix Healthcare

Listen to this webinar where Michael Porter and Thomas Lee from Harvard discuss fixing healthcare. The key is focus on value and not cost or volume. The 6 strategies are:

1. Organize care into Integrated Practice Units focusing on primary medical conditions
2. Measure outcomes and cost for every patient
3. Move into bundled payments
4. Integrate care delivery systems
5. Expand geographic reach
6. Build an enabling information technology platform (wonder what this should be)

The Pace of Technology Adoption is Speeding Up

Very interesting article from Harvard Business Review on the accelerating pace of technology adoption.  The obvious conclusion is we all need to be thinking about deploying technology that is open and agile as new technology is likely to dominate 2 years from now and what we use today will be different in the future.