July 13, 2018
This piece expands upon my prior post about digital nudging and
behavioral economics. Disruption in the healthcare industry mirrors the ed-tech
takeover that is well underway in public education. If you explore the webpage
for Catalyst,
the innovation PR outlet for the New England Journal of Medicine (remember,
social impact policy makers and many investors are based in Boston), you’ll
notice the language being used to direct health care providers towards
big-data, tech-centered solutions is eerily similar to the language being used
on educators and school administrators.
The FCC’s “Connecting America: The National Broadband Plan”
of 2010 outlined seven “national purposes” for broadband expansion. Healthcare
and education were the first two topics covered in that report. Both chapters
focus on “unlocking the value of data.” Who will the big winners be as we
further digitize our lives? My assessment is the telecommunications industry
and national security/police state will come out on top. Locally, Comcast and
Verizon are key players with interests in both sectors.
Education
and healthcare fall under the purview of Lamar Alexander’s Senate HELP (health,
education, labor and pensions) Committee, so the similarities in tactics
shouldn’t come as a surprise. In researching the $100 million federal Social
Impact Partnerships Pay for Results Act (SIPPRA) launch I attended in Washington, DC
last month, I noticed one of the Republican Senators who presented, Todd Young
of Indiana, had attended the Booth School of Business MBA program at the
University of Chicago. Recent Nobel Prize winner in behavioral economics
Richard Thaler teaches there, and I was curious to see if Thaler’s thinking had
influenced Young. Interactive version of Young’s map here.
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