Connected Health

Advances in Connected Health From the MIT Media Lab Featured at the 2011 Connected Health Symposium

I’ve always been a fan of the accomplishments of the folks at the MIT Media Lab.  Their accomplishments have been legion, and just a few admirable highlights are:  their ability to continually attract large industrial sponsorships; their open IP model; their collective ability to look 10-15 years out and capture those innovations that will be …

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Technology and Behavior Change at the 2011 Connected Health Symposium

Over the next several weeks, I will be authoring a series of posts on some of the keynote speakers slated to present at the 2011 Connected Health Symposium. This year, the Symposium is unparalleled and we’re trying a multimedia approach to get the word out, stimulate dialogue and debate and prepare people to take in …

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Connected Health: Technology First or People?

For some reason of late, I’ve noticed the tagline of the automobile insurance company, Esurance. In case you haven’t seen it, it goes like this:  “Technology when you want it, people when you don’t.” When I first heard this, I thought it would be a good tagline for connected health.  Then I pondered further and …

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Crossing The Digital Divide with Connected Health

Often when I speak about connected health, I am asked ‘What are you doing to provide these services to communities with health disparities?’ For many years, connected health advocates took it on the chin when this important topic was brought up.  We relied heavily on home computers and home Internet access to achieve the power …

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When Projects Fail, Should We Fault the Technology?

Last weekend, I saw the film “Up In The Air.”  Ok, so I am a few months behind in my movie viewing.  That is what the Netflix lifestyle does for you.  There is an interesting connected health analogy running through the film and I want to explore it with you in this post. George Clooney …

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No One Cares About Your Health (or No One is Willing to Pay For It)!

Of course that is not true, but it seems like that sometimes, doesn’t it?  If you are working to promulgate a solution that promotes health in the context of our current healthcare system, there is no end to the challenges you will face.  Lets think a bit about the various actors, why they should care …

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Evaluating Connected Health Interventions In The Era Of Personalized Medicine

My colleague, Anne Thorndike, MD, an expert in population studies and workplace wellness made contributions to this piece. She can be reached directly at athorndike@partners.org The concept of connected health recently received a blow when an article entitled “Telemonitoring in Patients with Heart Failure” appeared on December 2010 in the New England Journal of Medicine.  …

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Advances in Connected Health Sensor Technologies Enable an Exciting Vision

Most of the time I write about the psychology of patient, consumer or provider adoption.  This is not an accident.  The psychology of adoption is the next big hurdle for connected health to overcome.  We have good evidence that connected health solutions can be engaging and sticky for patients, leading to improved self-care. Likewise, we …

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