“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) …
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 …
The hype over mobile health is deafening on most days and downright annoying on some. So it is with some reluctance that I admit that mobile has the potential to be a game-changer in health. I’ve professed enthusiasm before, but that was largely around the use of wireless sensors to measure physiologic signals and SMS …
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 …
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 …
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 …
What’s a Guy Like Me Doing at the Consumer Electronics Show, Anyway? Read More »
I recently coined a phrase while talking to our senior leadership at Partners HealthCare. I told them that we aspire to bring them “innovations they don’t yet know they need.” Folks at the Center like this, especially those that are primarily focused on innovation. They feel that it defines us as cutting edge. And you …
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After working at this remote patient monitoring game for about 10 years now, we are ready to bring self-care to consumers – couch potatoes, weekend warriors and all of us in between hoping to live a little healthier, lose a few pounds or just feel a little better. Meet Wellocracy™! The goal of Wellocracy is …
