Third healthcare revolution

Sir Muir Gray foreword Web 2.0 in the Health Sector, a industry review with UK perspective (by Lindsey Birnsteel from E-Health Insider). Comparing industrial revolutions (we are in the 3rd one according to Manuel Castells) and healthcare revolutions (we are too in our third according to Sir Muir Gray), there are some unsolved problems that e-health (symbol of the new revolution) might contribute to address:
• errors;
• poor quality care delivery;
• poor experience of patients;
• waste;
• unknowing variations in policy and practice;
• failure to introduce high value interventions;
• uncritical adoption of low value interventions;
and
• failure to recognize uncertainty and ignorance.

An executive summary of Birnsteel report is accessible here, though the full report requires order.