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Everyone realizes that the current healthcare system needs to be more affordable, efficient and consumer-oriented. Information Technology is heralded as one the key change agents that can bring about that transformation.

Multiplyd was created to monitor and analyze the changes occurring in Healthcare IT, with the intention to understand their potential impact. You’ll find three kinds of content here:

Reviews are short write-ups about new, interesting offerings in the space.

Analyses are about emerging trends and patterns in Health IT.

Wiki is where all the in-progress lists and insights are kept till they mature.

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Box

It’s not often that non-healthcare startups make it to the review list at Multiplyd. But the recent news about cloud storage mega-startup Box moving into healthcare is too tempting to ignore. Let’s first talk about what Box does, and then dissect it’s applicability to healthcare. Box is a cloud storage, file-share-and-sync company. It claims more than...

Lighting Bolt

Scheduling is starting to become a great example when I talk to others about what is wrong with the current mainstream healthcare IT market. In short, the mainstream vendors are trying to do everything, and ending up with sub-optimal solutions across the board. Luckily for them, most clients are either unaware or choose to overlook the grotesque in the IT solutions...

InQuicker

In the standard healthcare IT media landscape, increasingly all I find are the ruinous signs of bloated, overcomplicated conventional healthcare IT systems struggling to do everything that they claim to do. Alongside that increasingly infertile landscape are green shoots of some startups doing few things, and doing them right. I’ve harped in the past on scheduling...

Jiff

Among other things in healthcare, the care transition process is also broken. For example, outpatient care usually ends with the provider summarizing for the patient their medical issue, instructions on next steps, etc. Ideally, the key takeaways are given to the patient as printed handouts, prescription instructions. But as most of us who have been a patient would know...

Tonic Health

There is no denying that the usability of current EHRs sucks. More pointedly, the data entry is really excruciating. Blogs have been devoted to the rants, articles have been written. In fact, the problem is so real that entrenched luddites have spawned a cottage industry of ‘Medical Scribes‘ – hired hands who do nothing but take physician’s...