[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]In a recent post by Dr. Michael Hodgkins, AMA’s CMIO, he cited the consumerization of healthcare as one of three digital health trends that are transforming patient care. Earlier this month, Health Affairs ‘analyzes the ups and downs of expecting patients to act as consumers’. Further, the NEJM Catalyst Insights Council revealed that the majority …
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]As the year comes to a close, I can’t help but reflect on where we are in the connected health adoption journey. 2018 will go down in history as a pivotal year. It will be cited as a year when we started to see evidence of movement from early adopter to early majority, or, if …
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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”1533″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]These days, there are lots of places you can go to learn about trends in the digital health market. Over the years, the Connected Health Conference has consistently lived up to a reputation of being the place where a balanced, no-hype view of the industry is presented, giving the audience a …
What does the 2018 Connected Health Conference tell us about the state of the industry? Read More »
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”1529″ img_size=”full” css=”.vc_custom_1567624586359{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”][vc_column_text]Provider to Patient Ratios by 2020[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]In my latest book, The New Mobile Age, we spend some time talking about the growing demand for care (we’re getting older and older people need more care) as compared to the flat supply of healthcare providers. The outlook is bleak – we’re …
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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Reader alert: reimbursement codes are not exciting but are critical in advancing connected health… and, after all, we all want to advance connected health. Read on! It is just shy of two years since the American Medical Association (AMA) asked me to co-chair their Digital Medicine Payment Advisory Group (DMPAG). At the time, I was …
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] We all want to live a long and healthy life… [/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”1505″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]This was my opening statement at an event we co-hosted earlier this month. We did so in collaboration with our friends at the d.health Summit, after learning that they were bringing their yearly thought-provoking gathering on all things aging to …
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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]Everybody has something they consider private. I think of it not as an absolute but as a sliding scale. We all have stories about (typically young) people who share everything online in a very open way, seeming to not care about potential ramifications. But, I suspect even they have information they’d rather not share. …
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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]Most folks who attend the annual meeting of the Health Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS) these days will tell you that to make the most of it, you ‘need a strategy’. On the one hand, just about everyone you would want to meet is there, but with 42000 attendees, you are unlikely just to …
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]About 10 years ago, I and many others, started talking about how care delivery enabled by connected health should be an ideal strategy in the world of value-based (VB) reimbursement. To date, there have been just a few instances where this has come to pass. Most relevant is Kaiser Permanente, where > 50% of patient interactions …
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]As we see virtual visits go mainstream (witness the recent prime time TV ad from UnitedHealth Group during the Winter Olympics), adoption of remote patient monitoring is lumbering along, still in the land of early adopters. There are several reasons for this lag (and for the corresponding growth in virtual visits). The unit of service …
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