July, 2014

CMIO Dr. Christopher Jaeger discusses why Sutter has decided to launch its own Healthcare Information Exchange. HIE’s are gaining traction and may become a major IT driver in an ACO world.

Elizabeth Holmes founded her revolutionary blood diagnostics company, Theranos, when she was 19. It’s now worth more than $9 billion, and poised to change health care.

Medicine is one of the few industries plagued with innovation that drives costs, rather reducing them — which is the norm in nearly every other industry. The cost of the average hospital stay rose 90 percent in 10 years, driven largely by new technologies that are then incorporated into the cost of care. That's remarkable, and remarkably concerning given the demands rising healthcare costs place on our government and patients. So, when a medical innovation cuts cost significantly, that is remarkable too, and hospitals, investors and providers should take note. Some of the biggest names in Silicon Valley and public service certainly are. (Elizabeth Holmes, CEO of Theranos)