Flashback Friday: Print on Demand Arrives
Promotional printing relied on offset presses to support a print and distribute model. Until digital printers incorporated offset workflows and launched the Print on Demand market.
Promotional printing relied on offset presses to support a print and distribute model. Until digital printers incorporated offset workflows and launched the Print on Demand market.
Outsourcing general services lowers cost in the long run. Outsourcing chronic illness management won’t deliver long term success until these platforms comprehend health literacy as a goal.
For decades offset presses were the go to choice for promotional communications. Print on Demand put an end to that monopoly.
Health systems are incented to coordinate care in chronically ill patient populations. We need the same focus on coordinated communications.
Mining clinical data to manage chronically ill patients will provide short term cost reductions. Long term cost reduction won’t occur until we address the non clinical barriers to adherence.
For hundreds of years the almighty printing press was the sole choice for creating promotional communications. The internet, digital color printing and mobile phones put an end to that.
Using Social Network Analysis to study patient communications may provide real value in situations where the clinical support is fragmented. The right application will identify communication opportunities that improve patient health literacy.
There is a growing use of Data Aggregators, Enterprise Data Warehouses and Patient Registries to consolidate patient data. This trend may allow wider use of Social Network Analysis to examine the value of coordinated care in treating chronic illness.
Home computers and dial up internet access started a massive change in how we communicate. Transactional and Promotional communications were forever changed.
Healthcare data is growing more accessible every year. Social Network Analysis may now be a better fit for assessing the treatment of chronically ill patients.