ABOUT
JOSEPH C. KVEDAR, MD
Professor of Dermatology, Harvard Medical School
Senior Advisor, Virtual Care, Mass General Brigham
Editor, npj Digital Medicine
More About Dr. Kvedar
Long before the internet, health and wellness trackers, apps, sensors, or smartphones existed, Joe Kvedar was creating a new model of healthcare delivery, moving care from the hospital or doctor’s office into patients' day-to-day lives.
Dr. Kvedar is a Professor of Dermatology at Harvard Medical School.
At Mass General Brigham, Dr. Joe Kvedar has focused on driving innovation, creating the market, and gaining acceptance for connected health for nearly three decades. He is now applying his expertise, insights and influence to advancing adoption of telehealth and virtual care technologies at the national level. Dr. Kvedar continues to guide the transformation of healthcare delivery as a respected thought leader, author and convener.
As Editor-in-Chief of npj Digital Medicine, a Nature Research journal, he works to establish the evidence base needed to guide innovation and digital health implementation.
Dr. Kvedar is a senior advisor and Board member at ATA, the preeminent organization focused on virtual care adoption. From 2017 to 2019, he served as Program Chair for the Connected Health Conference, an industry-defining event co-hosted by Partners HealthCare and the HIMSS Personal Connected Health Alliance (PCHAlliance). Prior, he hosted the Partners HealthCare Connected Health Symposium (2003-2016).
He is co-chair of the American Medical Association’s (AMA) Digital Medicine Payment Advisory Group (DMPAG), which works to ensure widespread coverage of telehealth and remote patient monitoring. He successfully established several new provider codes for telehealth reimbursement through the CPT process. Dr. Kvedar is also a member of the AAMC’s (Association of American Medical Colleges) telehealth committee, creating tools that will enable medical schools and residency programs to integrate telehealth into the training of future practitioners.
He is the author of two books on the subject: The Internet of Healthy Things (2015) and The New Mobile Age: How Technology Will Extend the Healthspan and Optimize the Lifespan (2017). For over a decade, his blog has provided his insights and vision for connected health.
Internationally recognized for his leadership in the field of telehealth and virtual care, Dr. Kvedar serves as a strategic advisor at several digital health companies, including Sweetch, Piction Health, Juli, Corti, GoodRx, and Click Therapeutics