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Understanding iPhone Key to Health Reform?

What the heck does the inside of an iPhone have to do with healthcare reform? According to claims by Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen, when looking inside Apple’s iPhone, an observer will see an assembly of coordinated and interdependent components, unlike a Dell computer, whose components come from different manufacturers that act independently of each other rather than as part of a system. Ninety percent of healthcare is like a Dell, said Christensen in a recent speech, trying to hone in on the point that a unified system will do a better job of controlling costs according to a recent post at MedCity.com