Personalized Mediciine

What’s a Guy Like Me Doing at the Consumer Electronics Show, Anyway?

I spent the bulk of the last week in Las Vegas attending the Consumer Electronics Show. If there were other academically-oriented physicians attending, I didn’t find them. Of course in the sea of 160,000 people, it’d be hard to pick out people you recognize, let alone find others with similar jobs/interests. It is easy to …

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Personalized Prevention, Part II – The Psychology of Engagement

My colleague Meghan Searl collaborated with me on the psychology framework discussed herein.  I don’t spend much time on Facebook.  Its not that I’m antisocial, but on a given day if I get through my email inbox by 10 PM, I feel good about myself.  That leaves little time for social networking.  I haven’t played …

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Personalized Prevention, Part I

For a few years now, I’ve been thinking about the potential intersections of genetics/genomics/proteomics and connected health.  In fact, my colleague Kamal Jethwani and my daughter Julie coauthored a piece for the journal Personalized Medicine on the topic in 2010.  A summary and the reference is linked.  (I should also note that the figure I …

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Is disruption of mainstream healthcare the answer to our crisis?

I’ve been a fan of Clayton Christensen’s work.  The idea of disruptive innovations really resonates with me and provides a powerful framework for understanding how innovations are adopted (or not) by various businesses.  As I think about our healthcare dilemma (escalating costs, misuse of limited resources, shrinking access to care and, in general, creating a …

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When Projects Fail, Should We Fault the Technology?

Last weekend, I saw the film “Up In The Air.”  Ok, so I am a few months behind in my movie viewing.  That is what the Netflix lifestyle does for you.  There is an interesting connected health analogy running through the film and I want to explore it with you in this post. George Clooney …

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Evaluating Connected Health Interventions In The Era Of Personalized Medicine

My colleague, Anne Thorndike, MD, an expert in population studies and workplace wellness made contributions to this piece. She can be reached directly at athorndike@partners.org The concept of connected health recently received a blow when an article entitled “Telemonitoring in Patients with Heart Failure” appeared on December 2010 in the New England Journal of Medicine.  …

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Societal Impediments To Connected Health

Two news pieces I read over the weekend reminded me of the societal challenges we face implementing connected health. Through our work at the Center for Connected Health, as well as the good work of others, we now have enough proof of concept to know that connected health can be a powerful strategy to improve …

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What Can Clean Tech Teach Connected Health and Vice Versa?

It is that time of year in New England when we prepare for winter.  Various activities such as caulking windows, checking insulation, and servicing heating systems predominate in home owners’ conciousness. I can’t help but think what it was like 300+ years ago when the original settlers from England arrived.  For a long while, heating …

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Emotional Automation: Bonding with Technology to Improve Health

During a keynote panel discussion at the Connected Health Symposium last week, I proposed a new idea that challenges the need for face-to-face doctor patient interactions to deliver quality care. Here’s a synopsis of my remarks: As we take stock of the opportunities the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) provides, we can look …

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