Telemedicine Is Vital to Reforming Health Care DeliveryBy Joseph C. Kvedar, MDOctober 7, 2015Harvard Business Review Telemedicine Is Vital to Reforming Health Care DeliveryBy Joseph C. Kvedar,…
A couple of years ago, my clinical practice (Dermatology Associates at Massachusetts General Hospital) began sending patients a bill when they did not show up for an…
Criteria for Stage 3 of meaningful use of EHRs were released recently and there is lots of controversy, as would have been predicted. One set of recommendations…
Just three weeks ago, I wrote about sign posts on the road to connected health adoption. That post was meant to help readers appreciate the subtleties of…
Everett Rogers is credited with the seminal text book on adoption, The Diffusion of Innovations. It is required reading for anyone who is interested in how new…
The hype around wearables is deafening. I say this from the perspective of someone who saw their application in chronic illness management 15 years ago. Of course,…
I’m often asked, ‘If you could snap your fingers and do some things to accelerate the adoption of connected health, what would they be?’ I’ve resisted responding,…
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…
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…
I saw another exciting news story on a mobile health intervention the other day. I honestly don’t remember the company or product, but what stuck with me…
