There are many mental moves that appear in my one-year journey of engaging with Lui’s theoretical sociology. I’d like to claim that this is a Supportive Collaboration.
Interdisciplinary collaboration in “loosely coupled networks” crossing organizational boundaries and integrating information from multiple knowledge domains and data from disparate sources, is definitely one core aspect/capability/purpose/benefit of our technology as applied to healthcare (and other industries).
4. How are the benefits realized (how is value generated for target customers)?
The benefits are realized by the capabilities of our tools to generate value, including:
Low-cost, easy-to-use, flexible, powerful computational models and communications software that is minimally disruptive to clinical workflows, requires little if any technical support and infrastructural build-out, and uses minimal computer resources; this saves money and time.
Focus on knowledge building and decision support for continuous improvements in care quality and efficiency, which are the critical factors in the healthcare industry’s shift from fee-for-service to pay-for- value (as discussed in the Drivers for a Whole Product Solution section below); this affects a providers’ payment rate for services rendered and thus enables them to make money (and avoid penalties).
Use the novel CP Split method to streamline data storage, transport, and rendering, saving money and increasing software efficiency and data management capacity.
Use of the simplest and lowest cost information exchange method (e-mail); this saves money (since email is almost free), and it increases productivity, convenience, and usability by enabling our products to be used anywhere and anytime with only a brief occasional internet connection.
Ability to connect diverse groups of people who work and learn together in loosely coupled collaborative networks that stimulate innovation and foster creative solutions through the “strength of weak ties.” That is, it avoids the “weakness of strong ties” in which the homogeneity of experience and knowledge, a single resource pool, and redundant information constrain decisions and innovation. Instead, it takes fosters the strength of weak ties that promotes insights and creative solutions through the collaborative exchange of diverse experiences, knowledge, ideas, perspectives, and other relevant, non-redundant information and varied resource pools.
Ability to work with other software tools, which helps save money and increases productivity by allowing an organization to select and use the best tools for the job.
Use a commercial off-the-self software platform (Microsoft Excel and Office) that is inexpensive, mature, ubiquitous, and familiar to 1.2 billion people (1 in 7 on the planet).
Ability to use dial-up, radio, or satellite communications if the Internet goes down due to natural or manmade disasters
