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Creating Connections. Managing Opportunities. Structuring Solutions. Patriot Labs brings together customers, influencers, and solution providers. Customers are upper echelon decision-makers involved with the acquisition of innovative solutions that fulfill the needs of specifically defined challenges and opportunities supported by their organizations. Influencers are individuals in positions to directly impact the purchasing decisions of customers. Solution […]

Monitoring, Measuring and Managing Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs)

The Uncoordinated State of ACO Care Coordination ACO care coordination in health care requires ensuring that the right information reaches the appropriate party at the optimal time to make patient care better, more efficient, and less costly. This coordination needs to occur among the various parties involved in a patient’s care. However, major problems in […]

Clinical Data Aggregation Working Group

We are pleased to announce that the Clinical Data Aggregation Working Group Virtual Summit has been scheduled for January 15, 2014. Beginning with the Virtual Summit, the working group will support a collaboration of like-minded individuals from pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and CROs that have come together specifically for the purpose of defining, developing and deploying reusable information […]

Private Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) Gaining Traction

Mixed Results The results of the initial Pioneer ACOs are mixed at best – and suggest that ACOs will need to place more emphasis on establishing interoperability among desperate information systems and meaningful performance monitoring, measurement and management reporting systems. At the start of 2013, medical groups around the country began joining private ACOs with […]

Technical Issues with the Federal Health Exchange, Who’s to Blame?

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has now acknowledged that for many of the 20 million Americans that tried to access HealthCare.gov, the experience has been “frustrating.” Almost three weeks after the site launched, people are still struggling to search for health insurance, or even login. The press has been quick to highlight […]

Private Public Partnerships Solve Large Scale Problems

When it comes to applying advances in technology to create innovation, a lot of the low hanging fruit has already been plucked and there’s even more folks crowding round the base of the tree. So going forward, it becomes necessary to invest time, energy, and money into solving the more challenging and larger-scale problems. While […]

Why Low Risk Innovation is Costly

Most organizations have missed a huge opportunity to impact innovation and results. By emphasizing enterprise systems and costs, they have given too little focus on those program systems and process innovations needed to drive meaningful outcomes. When it comes to information technology initiatives, they have been heavy on moving static “data” to the web and […]

Solutions to Better Manage the Innovation Process

Organizations are looking toward solutions to better manage the innovation process. A recent MIT Sloan/Deloitte Survey found that a top issue facing organizations today is a lack of adaptability. The Corporate Executive Board underscores this with its finding that 75% of executives are concerned with not having transformational ideas to drive growth (see report link […]