How Is Healthcare Different from Other Industries?

How Is Healthcare Different from Other Industries? (0:19)

Healthcare is vastly different from many other industries, which results in a new set of challenges. In this video, HealthMaker John Collins, PhD explains one of the main issues the field has to deal with, and why it's limiting.

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I think the challenges in healthcare again I think, you look at those other industries and generally speaking you don't have the number of players that you have in healthcare. So, I agree, I think that healthcare is slow compared to the other industries and are really adopting change which often times in this generation.

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About John Collins, PhD

John Collins, PhD, is the chief operating officer and technology implementation director at the Center for Integration of Medicine and Innovative Technology. Before CIMIT, he spent his career as a leader in technology-driven businesses.

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