Information Overload & Healthcare’s Direction

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Iron Lung Ward Blog post by Joe Babaian

The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.
– John Maynard Keynes

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.
– Steve Jobs

We’ve all been embracing the shift in healthcare from information being contained to just the clinic visit, the surgery waiting room, the nurses’ office, and printed newspaper article. The good old days when the information we received was the information we believed. Well, we all know the good old days weren’t all that good and it’s the journey of developing new ideas and new innovations that takes hard work and matters the most.

We have reached a point where the quantity of information in healthcare is so massive that it actually has become opaque to many – the very people who stand to benefit from new options, current research, and new ways of communicating…

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