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Clayton Christensen

False boundaries in health care

May 17, 2014 By Susannah Fox 39 Comments

Light bulbs in the night sky - a photo by Ted Eytan

Clayton Christensen gave a talk at last week’s SMARTHealthIT board meeting on, as he put it, how people think. I was absorbed by his storytelling, so only wrote down a few concepts: We make assumptions based on false correlations (and we should guard against that tendency). Data and maps are verbs, not nouns, and they never tell the […]

Filed Under: positive patterns, pt/doc co-care Tagged With: Clayton Christensen, Condition H, Flip the Clinic, learning health system, SMARTHealthIT, SMS

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