As healthcare apps for mobile devices continue to proliferate, soon to be in the thousands, there is a lingering question as to whether or not they will…

Medical research and development, including that which is done by the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industry, is highly dependent on patients.  Historically, this dependency has centered on clinical…

New start-ups focusing on digital health are being born daily.  I regularly attend demo days organized by accelerators, which are quasi vocational schools for start-ups where they…

I'm reporting from the third day of CES 2015 in Las Vegas. I have walked nine to eleven miles each day – with each of my two…

Let’s start with a few realities: Let’s start with a few realities:More than half of all physicians in practice in the US graduated from medical school at…

Last month, we discussed the importance of imagination in the context of big and revolutionary ideas and how we need those ideas to truly innovate healthcare in…

I know this will sound like heresy to most people in the “innovation machine” who could never accept that anything can be more important than innovation itself.…

Shouldn't healthcare be all about making evidence-based decisions?  Shouldn’t we credit research and data more than just anecdotal stories?  At least that’s what we’re led to believe…

In June 2013, I wrote here on HealthWorks Collective an article on the Dawn of the Worried Well. The impetus for the article at the time was the…