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Lessons Learned from 2020 Provide a Springboard for Increased Telehealth Adoption

[vc_row][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text]While thinking about my keynote address at the 2021 American Telemedicine Association (ATA) annual conference, I kept coming back to Daniel Kahneman’s Nobel-prize-winning theory (his book is called Thinking Fast and Slow). This theory formed the basis for the field we now know as behavioral economics.  What Kahneman describes as heuristics (pattern recognition or …

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The Need for a Gold Standard in Telehealth Education

[vc_row][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text]According to the Consumer Technology Association, recent data shows that 59% of consumers use remote mental health services, 49% are using telehealth for physical health, and 37% are using health fitness apps – all increases compared to before the COVID-19 pandemic.  We have seen how telehealth, as a channel for healthcare delivery, expanded dramatically …

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Goals For Telehealth For 2021

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]On New Year’s Day, Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker signed into law a healthcare reform bill that is a metaphor for the state of telehealth as we put 2020 in the rearview mirror.  Telehealth advocates have plenty to be pleased with in the final legislation (see the American Telemedicine Association’s press statement here).  The law …

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Lessons Learned on Data Integrity in the Fight Against Covid

[vc_row][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text]In January 2020, I agreed to take on responsibilities as Editor-in-Chief for Nature’s digital medicine journal, npjDigital Medicine.  With all of the on-the-job training, I have learned quickly how critical our associate editors and reviewers are and, thus, the high quality of the papers we publish.  It is easy to view this enterprise with …

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Privacy is now an emergency in digital health

In 2014, my coauthors and I were putting together the concepts and passages that became The Internet of Healthy Things, published in 2015. Chapter 1 of that book describes a lively digital coach/companion, called Sam, who follows me throughout the day and, based on data collected through the Internet of Things, offers me advice and steers me …

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Facebook Thinks I Am My Father

My niece, Martha, posted throwback pictures from her 2001 wedding on Facebook, and one of them is a picture of my dad and his mate at the time. The other morning I woke up to a Facebook notification that “Martha posted a picture of me.” When I clicked through, sure enough, it was the picture …

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New Year, New Opportunities

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]2019 was an eventful year for me.  My last blog post was in August and in it, I mentioned two milestones — the upcoming Connected Health Conference, as well as my excitement and gratitude for being offered the role of President-Elect at ATA, the preeminent organization focused on virtual care adoption.  Since then, I …

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(Focused) Reflections from HIMSS 2018

[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 …

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From Bathroom to Bedroom: Insights from CES 2018

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]CES is always a bit of a phenomena and I, like many others, carefully follow the news and trends in consumer health technology being showcased in Vegas. I am especially interested in how some of the newest technologies might impact our work, and seeing how connected health tools are evolving. This is the first year …

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Coming Soon… The New Mobile Age

I have fallen behind on blogging over the last few months.  When I started the cHealth Blog, in 2008, I posted every other week, but over the years, the frequency has fluctuated somewhat.  My main excuse is that I’ve had the opportunity to publish in other places, such as NEJM Catalyst, Harvard Business Review, and …

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