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Could Mobile Health Become Addictive? 20 Aug 2013 | 08:54 pm
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 pr...
Is the Future of Healthcare Delivery Guidelines or Personalized Medicine? 9 Jul 2013 | 08:08 pm
As we grapple with provider shortages, the surge in chronic illness and the quality to price (QPR as they say in the wine business) challenge in US healthcare delivery, it’s hard to imagine a future t...
What Does Screening Your Phone Records Have To Do With Health Care? 25 Jun 2013 | 08:54 pm
I have been following the news about the National Security Agency (NSA) access to our phone records with great interest. If we as a society don’t sort some of this out, we’ll see a repeat in the hea...
Is the End of Search the Beginning of Personalized Prevention? 23 May 2013 | 02:22 am
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 ...
Is Design Important In Healthcare? 7 May 2013 | 09:09 pm
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 phys...
Serendipity, Personalization and Connected Health 24 Apr 2013 | 08:28 pm
In a world where most folks change jobs every couple of years, people are often amazed to hear that I started work in connected health 19 years ago. Implicit in their amazement is a question, “Why di...
The cHealth Blog Turns Three: Reflections on 3 Years of Progress in Connected Health 10 Apr 2013 | 09:59 pm
It has been 3 years since the cHealth blog entered the blogosphere, and it’s been a lot of fun. I recently looked back to see if there are highlights or trends in my posts and/or if my thinking or co...
Is Facebook a Predictor of Your Health? 27 Mar 2013 | 09:07 pm
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 se...
Will ACOs Fail? 26 Feb 2013 | 09:11 pm
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...
Will ACOs Fail? 26 Feb 2013 | 09:11 pm
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...
