As part of our mission at the Center for Connected Health, ‘to create and validate connected health solutions that empower patients and providers to transform care,’ we also engage in a number of activities to help move healthcare forward. Our management team is often found at the podium at industry conferences, roundtable discussions, government hearings, …
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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Since I gave a keynote at the 2013 Connected Health Symposium called “Making Health Addictive,” I’ve been posting on this topic in order to explain some of the concepts in more detail and to get your feedback. Previous posts include a framing post, and further detail on what I laid out as three strategies to …
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A few years back, when I first became fascinated by self-tracking, I committed to use and understand all of the trackers on the market at the time. It would be hard to make that kind of commitment today as the field has widened dramatically. But in 2009, it was much more confined. I had a …
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Since my presentation at the 2013 Connected Health Symposium, “Making Health Addictive,” I’ve been posting on this topic in order to explain some of the concepts in more detail and to get your collective feedback (always incredibly helpful). Previous posts include a framing post, and further detail on what I proposed as three strategies to …
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It was 1999, and I was speaking at a prestigious academic center’s ‘Innovations in Dermatology’ symposium. I presented work we had done on a web application that would allow a non-dermatologist (primary care doctor or other front-line provider) to upload images of a patient’s skin as well as some history. Subsequently, a dermatologist could review …
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Somewhere around December or January, my weight, seemingly suddenly, jumped a couple of pounds. This triggered an alarm as I felt like I was already on the high end of what I considered an acceptable weight for me. At the same time, I recently got to know Samir Damani and his company, MD Revolution. Samir …
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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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Since I gave a keynote at the 2013 Connected Health Symposium called “Making Health Addictive,” I’ve been posting on this topic in order to explain some of the concepts in more detail and to get your collective feedback (always incredibly helpful). Previous posts include a framing post, and further detail on what I laid out …
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“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.” Robert Frost I received two emails from organizational leadership in the past week that represent milestones to me. One was about our efforts to better manage populations in the context of risk-bearing (pay-for-value) …
