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Why the Tech Industry Won’t Disrupt Health Care

Harvard Business Review

At first glance, it looks like health care in the United States is ripe for disruption. But for many reasons, the incumbents — established health systems — will be extremely hard to displace. Instead, the winners will be health systems that team up with digital tech companies.

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What’s Lost When Data Systems Don’t Communicate

Harvard Business Review

In every industry, many large corporations have teams that help bridge outdated, disconnected systems, and databases. Without them, there is no way companies can upgrade their technology without causing disruption to their operations.

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My own transformative dynamics of disruption

Paul Hobcraft

It is a very disrupting, disturbing world. We have to push this into more of the cross-sector cascading effects of disruptions. This becomes a critical point of any dynamics of future disruption. Technological disruption is altering all we do. This was the most disruptive space for innovation and technology to be applied.

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Will Blockchain Disrupt the Healthcare Industry?

IdeaScale

The question is whether the healthcare industry will allow blockchain to alter it. HIPAA dictates how patient records are shared, who has access to them, and what systems they can be stored on, and the standards for patient privacy are, by necessity, extremely high. And who will pay to maintain the system as time goes on?

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What Jake and Flo Aren’t Telling Us: Disruptions Constantly Change the Insurance Industry

Daniel Burrus

But what Flo from Progressive, the Geico Gecko, and the ever-popular Jake from State Farm may not be able to tell you is where the insurance industry is heading. Disruptions — and better yet, digital disruptions — that turn the insurance industry on its head are meant to ease the common pain points customers face.

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Can the Construction Industry Be Disrupted?

Harvard Business Review

Construction is often maligned as the industry that technology left behind. Industry observers routinely deride the lack of technological sophistication in the construction industry, and have pigeon-holed it as old-fashioned and lagging behind more forward-looking and purposeful industries such as manufacturing.

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Why incremental innovation is so easy; disruptive is so difficult

Jeffrey Phillips

For me, one epiphany that happened this week was when I was thinking about how valuable truly disruptive innovation is, and why it is done so rarely. Then, there's the added question of why almost all disruptive innovation is typically undertaken by an industry upstart or outsider, rather than a company currently in the field.