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Will 2015 Be mHealth’s Coming Out Party?

I’ve been toiling in the field of connected health for 20 years…

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Connected Health as a Therapeutic

I heard the other day that by 2017, 50% of the pharmacy…

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My Wish List for Apple’s HealthKit Initiative

Apple has been making headlines again, which is not unusual for a…

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Is Design Important in Healthcare?

I’ve been in the healthcare delivery business now for 30 years and…

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For Telehealth Patient Safety Needs, An Evolution in Policy

 Editor’s note: For more on this topic, see the February issue of…

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Making Health Addictive: Use the Sentinel Effect [VIDEO]

Since I gave a keynote at the 2013 Connected Health Symposium called…

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How Much Can We Demand of Consumer Connected Health?

A few years back, when I first became fascinated by self-tracking, I…

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Making Health Addictive: Use Unpredictable Rewards

Since my presentation at the 2013 Connected Health Symposium, “Making Health Addictive,”…

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Direct-to-Consumer Telemedicine: Has Its Time Come?

It was 1999, and I was speaking at a prestigious academic center’s…

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Calorie Intake: The Last Mile for Truly Connected Health

Somewhere around December or January, my weight, seemingly suddenly, jumped a couple…

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