Dr. J. Deane Waldman, Professor of Pediatrics, Pathology & Decision Science at the University of New Mexico said the industry has three disincentives to innovation that will partly suppress the effect of Moore’s law, including:

1. Regulatory oversight that is completely focussed on compliance. “It discourages risk-taking and innovation,” Deane said.
2. Health care doesn’t have the same financial reward system. Facebook isn’t about to pay $1 billion for the latest hot-ticket item in imaging and informatics.
3. And, finally, Deane said, “Security always trumps information sharing, and so better, faster linkages are constrained because of security concerns, most of which are bogus.”

One of the other big problems is that, unlike other industries, new technologies in health care are not driven by consumer demand. It’s up to doctors and hospitals to decide whether to implement the latest and greatest piece of health care tech.

“Consumers can be expected to embrace digital health tools more quickly, and this will drive a demand for improvement that should increase the pace of institutional change,” said Robert B. McCray, president and CEO of the Wireless-Life Sciences Alliance. “There is great economic resistance to change, however, and more trade protections in health care, so institutional and professional resistance, rather than technology, are the limiting factors in the creation of ‘better health care’.”

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La Ribera University Hospital (Spain) has been chosen along with other 3 European healthcare institutions, as basis for the report titled “Healthcare of the Future”. This has been approved by the  European Commissioner for Health and Consumer Policy, John Dalli and La Ribera University Hospital managers, in a meeting in Paris. The report  is written by the European Union Directorate General for Health and Consumer Policy in collaboration with COCIR (European Coordination Commitee of the Radiological, Electromedical and Heathcare IT Industry), group that includes some of the main healthcare tech companies in the world.

The objective of this report is to obtain information about best financial healthcare model practices (like those of the La Ribera University Hospital and their well known Alzira Model). The aim of this study is to find profitable solutions that may serve as reference in a general European context. Besides that, the report means to discover the integral organization of the chosen hospitals and the public-private collaborations, their interoperability, and healthcare IT. Regarding La Ribera University Hospital, it has been chosen because it represents “the public-private collaboration management  model and is an excellent example of high quality and a sustainable healthcare system”.

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La Ribera University Hospital uses Kanteron Systems technology since 2010. Last year they decided to purchase more solutions from Kanteron Systems. And this year they have increased their orders again, proving their satisfaction with our solutions and their trust in our services.

Thank you and congratulations!

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