Healthcare Hype Cycle Graphic

There is a lot of really interesting things happening in healthcare. Many are trying to change healthcare as we know it today. Many have the promise of lowering costs, improved care, and better health. However, each of these movements, initiatives, or trends are at different points of the famous maturity lifecycle.

Bonnie Feldman shared the following graphic which shows many of these healthcare changes on the hype cycle:

Here’s a larger version for those who can’t read the smaller Twitter embedded image:
Healthcare Hype Cycle

I should mention that this graphic is focused on Autoimmunity, but you could see how this applies to so many areas of healthcare. A few minor changes and it would be all of healthcare. What other items would you add to this hype cycle? Would you move anything on the chart above farther along the line or backwards on the line?

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John Lynn

John Lynn is the Founder of HealthcareScene.com, a network of leading Healthcare IT resources. The flagship blog, Healthcare IT Today, contains over 13,000 articles with over half of the articles written by John. These EMR and Healthcare IT related articles have been viewed over 20 million times.

John manages Healthcare IT Central, the leading career Health IT job board. He also organizes the first of its kind conference and community focused on healthcare marketing, Healthcare and IT Marketing Conference, and a healthcare IT conference, EXPO.health, focused on practical healthcare IT innovation. John is an advisor to multiple healthcare IT companies. John is highly involved in social media, and in addition to his blogs can be found on Twitter: @techguy.

   

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