Healthcare Reform

Direct to Consumer Telehealth: Throwing The Baby Out With The Bathwater

I would like to acknowledge the contributions of Catherine Schuster Bruce in this post. Catherine is a University of Bristol Medical Graduate who recently spent two months on placement with Partners Connected Health prior to starting work at the Royal London Hospital, London. Missed diagnosis. No Diagnosis. Dodgy Clinicians… There’s been a lot of hand …

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Headlines, Heuristics and Subtlety in Interpreting Connected Health Studies

We live in a headline/hyperlinked world.  A couple of years back, I learned through happenstance that my most popular blog posts all had catchy titles.  I’m pretty confident that people who read this blog do more than scan the titles, but there is so much information coming at us these days, it’s often difficult to …

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For Telehealth Patient Safety Insists Upon An Evolution In Policy

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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Health Care Business Models in Transition Open Doors for Connected Health

What an amazing time to be a champion of new health care delivery models.  Three megatrends are driving change at a pace that I only wished for 20 years ago. Back then, I first had the insight that care could be improved, in some instances, if we separate doctor and patient in time and space. …

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