I have been following the news about the National Security Agency (NSA) access to our phone records with great interest. If we as a society don’t sort some of this out, we’ll see a repeat in the health sector a few years from now. These discussions seem to pivot on issues of population-level safety vs. …
What Does Screening Your Phone Records Have To Do With Health Care? Read More »
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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I’ve been in the healthcare delivery business now for 30 years and I can confidently say we’ve paid almost no attention to design. Systems are built around physicians’ desires and workflows, and physicians tend to be quantitative, content-focused and able to handle multiple variables at once. Perhaps that is why we have not put a …
In a world where most folks change jobs every couple of years, people are often amazed to hear that I started work in connected health 19 years ago. Implicit in their amazement is a question, “Why did you stick with it so long?” The quickest response is that the work we started back then is …
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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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I’ve written before about the power of analyzing what you write in order to predict things about your health. As more and more ‘big data’ companies and projects get publicity, it is fascinating to see how rapidly the field is growing. We are at the point where each one of us experiences the web differently …
The cHealth Blog is coming up on its 3rd anniversary and during that time I’ve taken my share of pot shots at organized medicine. Most implementations of connected health are in some way disruptive to the status quo, so I can’t help but point out those opportunities and barriers. So I was surprised at my …
