Making Health Addictive: Use the Sentinel Effect [VIDEO]
Since I gave a keynote at the 2013 Connected Health Symposium called “Making Health Addictive,” I’ve been posting on this topic in order to explain some of the concepts in…
Who’s Who of Health Care Join Forces for SMART Technology
In the new app-driven health economy, ease of use of IT for providers and patients is a must. Equally important is a sound technical approach and business plan for application…
Should You Trust Your Doctor More Than Wikipedia?
Whom can you trust? Whom can you trust?A BBC article (Trust your doctor, not Wikipedia, say scientists) reports on a US study that finds errors in Wikipedia for 9 of the…
Want to Make a Lot of Money in Healthcare? Don’t Become a Doctor
Top Earners? Top Earners? Not Doctors. Last week the New York Times ran an article about the top earners in healthcare - and doctors did not top that list: administrators did.The healthcare industry…
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BioPharma Beat: Apple and the Dawn of the Worried Well (the Sequel)
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 exuberance we saw…
Self-Tracking Is Just the Beginning for Wearables Applications
Do you have any bad health habits you’d like to get rid of? Smoking? Overeating? Slouching? Too much wasted time surfing the internet? A wearable sensor may be in your future…
mHealth Comes to Patient Support Groups
If you are a patient and haven’t yet researched or joined a patient support community, you should.Communities exist for chronic cancer patients, chronic disease patients, rare disease patients and patients…
4 Tactics for Easing Physicians into the Age of Digital Marketing
Many newly minted physicians are anxious to promote their practices online, and can’t wait to learn about new ways to reach new patients. Many newly minted physicians are anxious to…
Dispatches from the 2014 American Telemedicine Association Conference
We just returned from the 19th annual American Telemedicine Conference in Baltimore, MD. We just returned from the 19th annual American Telemedicine Conference in Baltimore, MD. It was an amazing…
7 Best Blogs to Follow About Healthcare Legislation
The Affordable Care Act has generated more interest in healthcare legislation than any other single piece of legislation to have been enacted in decades. For the healthcare industry, the flurry…
