I’m often asked, ‘If you could snap your fingers and do some things to accelerate the adoption of connected health, what would they be?’ I’ve resisted responding, thinking that things are not so simple and reducing the keys to adoption to a list is unrealistic. However, I have been thinking lately about the cultural and …
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While so many folks were writing about their impressions of 2014, I was enjoying the holidays with my family. During that time I was thinking about the notable events of 2014 in connected health, but more importantly how they will set the stage for 2015, which is poised to be a breakout year. One year …
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My dad was a wonderful guy who could fill the room with his personality. He grew up during the Great Depression and was a World War II veteran. I was thinking of him recently while considering how much health care delivery has changed in the last 100 years. When asked about his health, my dad …
Have you ever thought about how we evolved and the implications for health care? For millennia, we sought the help of a physician when we sensed something awry in our daily sensations. Sometimes this is as subtle as ‘I just don’t feel right,’ but sometimes it is as dramatic as an athletic injury or a …
I saw another exciting news story on a mobile health intervention the other day. I honestly don’t remember the company or product, but what stuck with me was the declaration of success based on 10 patients using the product for three months. Success was touted in terms of cost reduction and resource utilization reduction in …
I’ve been toiling in the field of connected health for 20 years now, watching for signs of adoption that will move us into the steep part of the curve. I have to wonder, with announcements from several huge consumer companies recently, if that time is coming. By now you’ve heard about Apple’s HealthKit announcement (my …
I heard the other day that by 2017, 50% of the pharmacy spend in the U.S. will be on specialty pharmacy. It seems this is driven by two phenomena. The first is the growing crop of new molecules that are in the class ‘biologics’ – developed via biotechnology and which are complex to manufacture, require …
Apple has been making headlines again, which is not unusual for a company that sets trends and moves markets. A week or so ago they announced that iOS 8 would have a built-in app to collect all of your health info in one place. Then there was the announcement of the partnership with Mayo Clinic …
As part of our mission at the Center for Connected Health, ‘to create and validate connected health solutions that empower patients and providers to transform care,’ we also engage in a number of activities to help move healthcare forward. Our management team is often found at the podium at industry conferences, roundtable discussions, government hearings, …
This post first appeared in Health Affairs: Joseph Kvedar, For Telehealth Patient Safety Insists Upon An Evolution In Policy, Health Affairs Blog, May 29th 2014, http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2014/05/29/for-telehealth-patient-safety-insists-upon-an-evolution-in-policy/ Copyright ©2010 Health Affairs by Project HOPE – The People-to-People Health Foundation, Inc. Editor’s note: For more on this topic, see the February issue of Health Affairs, which features a series of articles on …
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