Ripple: the personal media revolution for health

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Health IT is awash with predictions of the "next big thing" being one of any number of ICT-inspired leaps forward.


Some recent predictions from Vector blog seem quite likely to occur in the near future.  As Keeley Wray wrote in Vector blog, Advanced computing + healthcare = disruptive change.  "...healthcare has been a dinosaur when it comes to using advanced computational approaches.  But I think in the near future we will see measurable change." 


In Keeley's post, the big trends are visualisation, patient empowerment through open data, and knowledge engines providing the "smarts".

Whilst it is likely that any of the predicted trends for health + IT will be "disruptive" the biggest change will come through the impact that all these trends have by occurring simultaneously. Think perfect storm. We'll look into this after the jump.