I first posed the question, “Could Mobile Health Become Addictive?” on August 20th. Since then I’ve done more thinking and I’m warming to the concept. In fact, I’ll be addressing this topic when I speak at the upcoming Connected Health Symposium (our 10th! Oct 24, 25 at the Seaport World Trade Center in Boston), and …
The mobile health revolution is occurring in the midst of a much broader shift in business models around computing and software. For decades, IT suppliers sold proprietary hardware by locking customers in and upselling them for decades with add-ons and upgrades. The concept of switching costs became a tool for building barriers –barriers for customers …
This post first appeared on WBUR’s CommonHealth blog Last week, the Oklahoman news Website NewsOK.com reported that Dr. Thomas Trow, a doctor living in “far Eastern” Oklahoma (read: towns few and far-between), had been disciplined for treating patients over Skype for mental health issues. He was accused of prescribing them medications without ever having physically …
Doc Punished For Treating Patients Via Skype: What To Make Of It? Read More »
As we grapple with provider shortages, the surge in chronic illness and the quality to price (QPR as they say in the wine business) challenge in US healthcare delivery, it’s hard to imagine a future that does not include some sort of guideline or algorithm-driven care. As providers take on more financial risk, one common …
Is the Future of Healthcare Delivery Guidelines or Personalized Medicine? Read More »
I have been following the news about the National Security Agency (NSA) access to our phone records with great interest. If we as a society don’t sort some of this out, we’ll see a repeat in the health sector a few years from now. These discussions seem to pivot on issues of population-level safety vs. …
What Does Screening Your Phone Records Have To Do With Health Care? Read More »
