The Emerging Trends in Connected Health from 2018
The Emerging Trends in Connected Health from 2018 Read More »
The Emerging Trends in Connected Health from 2018 Read More »
Bring Your Own (Health Monitoring) Device: Progress and Challenges Read More »
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released the 2018 Physician Fee Schedule about two weeks ago and there is at least one nugget in there that should speed the adoption of remote patient monitoring. In fact, the news is even better, but I’m getting ahead of myself. First, let’s examine the broader context …
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 …
Thanks to our friends at Omada and other companies in this space, the term ‘digital therapeutics’ is working its way into our lexicon. There are now many examples of how a digital intervention can have the same or better clinical outcome as a chemical therapeutic, demonstrating the power of connected health, particularly in the realm …
I did a second stint on evening AM talk radio a few weeks ago for a program called Nightside with Dan Rea, which I really enjoyed. Dan’s callers represent a genuine, down-to-earth view of the reality of connected health adoption. The first time around, most callers were cautionary, raising concerns about data security and wondering …
When Will Healthcare Get Digital and Analog Integration Right? Read More »
Predictions are something I make often in my line of work. As someone who has been making healthcare predictions for more than 2 decades – and keeping score of how often they come true – I admit it is a humbling pursuit. Some predictions end up being flat out wrong. Others turn out to be …
Predictions for Connected Health, Data-Sharing, and Business Model Disruption Read More »
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 …
Our Journey to Make Connected Health as Appealing as Your Smartphone Read More »
People are living longer, but not necessarily healthier. It’s unsettling to think about it in these terms but, in our lifetime, it’s unlikely that any of the lifestyle related diseases—like obesity, diabetes and heart disease—will be cured by a pill. Yet the most effective weapons we have to battle chronic disease include more daily activity …
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 …
Headlines, Heuristics and Subtlety in Interpreting Connected Health Studies Read More »