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Business acumen requires insight about the concentric circles of the company, its industry, and broader markets to wisely consider strategy, risk, financial standing, and performance aims in all decisions. Such thinking is not possible, nor is innovation, without a fundamental understanding of a firm’s value chain, its competitive advantage, and business dynamics. Essential to such acumen is the ability to transform increasingly costless and abundant data into information that is actionable for meaningful decisions.
In my analysis, attention to mistakenly followed presumed processes, which ignore inadequate requirements and resulting insufficient budgets/schedules, causes typical risk analyses to miss almost certain repeated budget and schedule overruns. Once you become conscious that the real processes producing your results can differ from what you have been accustomed to presuming, your mind opens to allow awareness of all sorts of previously overlooked risks.
How can mHealth support the new challenges and opportunities of telehealth? In this issue of Cutter Business Technology Journal (CBTJ), we present some stimulating articles that illustrate the impact now, and the future direction, of mHealth.
If the familiar VPNs are not up to the task of supporting the sudden new generation of WFH users, what’s the alternative? Fortunately, there’s a class of products designed specifically for today’s needs: cloud-based remote access software.
With a focus on brain health and neuroscience, Sean Lorenz describes how technology is helping us better assess our brain health journeys with remote detection, diagnosis, and treatment tools. Given the issues surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic, he explores the urgent need that requires the healthcare system to actively look toward telehealth and RPM.
What’s happening when we’re reaching the right customers and meeting their strategic needs? That question is the opening gambit in an interesting kind of strategy review. In this Executive Update, we offer the design of two types of reviews — the OI-SR and OI-SDR — which together bring alignment and experimentation into prominence.
This article moves us up the healthcare value chain by highlighting the impact that COVID-19 has had on clinical trials. Cutter Consortium Senior Consultant Ben van der Schaaf and Pan Xi describe the current state of mHealth along with technology innovations that forward-looking R&D leaders in pharmaceuticals are deploying. Knowing that the current shift will not be temporary, the authors urge healthcare organizations “to adapt and be in the right place at the right time … to prepare for this imminent change.”
Heléne Spjuth examines the economics of mHealth and the resulting challenges and opportunities for all stakeholders in the healthcare ecosystem. In defining the healthcare ecosystem and its various reimbursement models, she shows the “unique circumstances that will serve either as barriers to, or enablers of, mHealth’s efficient implementation.”