Stochastic Gaps: Insults and Illuminations on Microcapitation
Stochastic (stō-kăs’tĭk) adj. Of, relating to, or characterized by conjecture; conjectural Involving chance or probability * Disclaimer: The letter is a response to Dave Marcinko of HealthCare Financials who had some pointed commentary regarding my attempt to define a trend I had identified and described as “microcapitation”. This is a l
Millennial Health Care Delivery
Millennial (mə-lĕn’–əl) adj. 1. Of or pertaining to the millennium, or to a thousand years 2. Generation of Americans younger than 29 in 2007 with unique social, cultural, and market identity * This is a companion piece to an article called Millenial Patients that will appear in MDNG shortly * The highlight of last months […]
First Party Financing – Lets Get Real About Health Care
Financing (fə-năns’) v. To provide or raise the funds or capital for: financed a new car. To supply funds to: financing a daughter through law school. To furnish credit to. The crisis that is American health care continues to get bad news. However, in a lame duck year, everyone realizes that not much is going […]
Collective Intelligence: The Network is Nirvana
Collective Intelligence (kə-lĕk’tĭv ĭn-tĕl’ə-jəns) n. 1. Collective intelligence is a form of intelligence that emerges from the collaboration and competition of many individuals. 2. Collective intelligence appears in a wide variety of forms of consensus decision making in bacteria, animals, humans, and computers. 3. The study of collectiv
Knowledge Prostitution enabling Aggregated Voyeurism: Is this a Business Model?
Voyeurism (voi-yûr’ ĭz‘əm) n. 1. The practice in which an individual derives pleasure from surreptitiously observing people. 2. Derives from the French verb voir (to see); literal translation is “seer” but with perjorative connotations. I have recently written about the need to see some more compelling business models within the em