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 …
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While so many folks were writing about their impressions of 2014, I was enjoying the holidays with my family. During that time I was thinking about the notable events of 2014 in connected health, but more importantly how they will set the stage for 2015, which is poised to be a breakout year. One year …
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My dad was a wonderful guy who could fill the room with his personality. He grew up during the Great Depression and was a World War II veteran. I was thinking of him recently while considering how much health care delivery has changed in the last 100 years. When asked about his health, my dad …
Have you ever thought about how we evolved and the implications for health care? For millennia, we sought the help of a physician when we sensed something awry in our daily sensations. Sometimes this is as subtle as ‘I just don’t feel right,’ but sometimes it is as dramatic as an athletic injury or a …
“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) …
We just posted our curation of mood tracking apps on wellocracy.com. This prompted me to review just how far self-tracking has come in the last several years. Just four to five years ago we were beginning to understand the power of self-tracking for health. Prior to that, individuals interested in gathering measurable information about their …
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The mobile health revolution is occurring in the midst of a much broader shift in business models around computing and software. For decades, IT suppliers sold proprietary hardware by locking customers in and upselling them for decades with add-ons and upgrades. The concept of switching costs became a tool for building barriers –barriers for customers …
