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Our Journey to Make Connected Health as Appealing as Your Smartphone

My children got me hooked on a smartphone app called Time Hop.  It mines your social media posts and pictures and serves them up as a daily history, showing what you were doing one year ago, two years ago, etc.  I find it loads of fun.  Recently several of my tweets resurfaced from seven years …

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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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Twenty Years in the Making

Recently, when I Googled the term “connected health,” I was astonished to yield over 158,000,000 search results. What’s remarkable is that when we launched what was originally called Partners Telemedicine in 1995, the terms connected health, mHealth or digital health simply didn’t exist. In 2007, we created the term connected health and renamed our Center …

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Telemedicine Is Vital to Reforming Health Care Delivery

Telemedicine Is Vital to Reforming Health Care Delivery By Joseph C. Kvedar, MD October 7, 2015 Harvard Business Review   Health care remains one of the few services that require people to have a face-to-face interaction to obtain access. But more and more consumers are questioning that reality, and change is on the way. In …

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Giving Thanks

The cHealth Blog is almost four years old.  during that time, I’ve been both flattered and pleased as readership has grown and other outlets have seen fit to re-publish many of the posts.  I’ve learned lots during that time but one key learning is that blogging truly is a social media experience. I’ve gotten many …

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Is the End of Search the Beginning of Personalized Prevention?

This past week, Google had its annual developers conference, Google I/O.   One of the more provocative talks, called “The End of Search as We Know It,” was by Amit Singhal, who is in charge of search for Google. The vision, as described by Amit, is that instead of typing words into a box on a …

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The cHealth Blog Turns Three: Reflections on 3 Years of Progress in Connected Health

It has been 3 years since the cHealth blog entered the blogosphere, and it’s been a lot of fun.  I recently looked back to see if there are highlights or trends in my posts and/or if my thinking or communication had changed dramatically in 3 years.  Although not dramatic, if you look at these writings …

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