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Doc Punished For Treating Patients Via Skype: What To Make Of It?

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This post first appeared on WBUR’s CommonHealth blog Last week, the Oklahoman news Website NewsOK.com reported that Dr. Thomas Trow, a doctor living in “far Eastern” Oklahoma (read: towns few and far-between), had been disciplined for treating patients over Skype for mental health issues. He was accused of prescribing them medications without ever having physically …

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What’s a Guy Like Me Doing at the Consumer Electronics Show, Anyway?

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I spent the bulk of the last week in Las Vegas attending the Consumer Electronics Show. If there were other academically-oriented physicians attending, I didn’t find them. Of course in the sea of 160,000 people, it’d be hard to pick out people you recognize, let alone find others with similar jobs/interests. It is easy to …

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Is disruption of mainstream healthcare the answer to our crisis?

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I’ve been a fan of Clayton Christensen’s work.  The idea of disruptive innovations really resonates with me and provides a powerful framework for understanding how innovations are adopted (or not) by various businesses.  As I think about our healthcare dilemma (escalating costs, misuse of limited resources, shrinking access to care and, in general, creating a …

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

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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

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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?

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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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When Projects Fail, Should We Fault the Technology?

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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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Societal Impediments To Connected Health

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Two news pieces I read over the weekend reminded me of the societal challenges we face implementing connected health. Through our work at the Center for Connected Health, as well as the good work of others, we now have enough proof of concept to know that connected health can be a powerful strategy to improve …

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Will I See You In Boston Later This Week?

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The Connected Health Symposium is this week.  Without a doubt it’s our best yet.  Attendance is tracking ahead of last year. We have more exhibitors and sponsors.  We have excellent content (more on that in a moment) and a variety of workshops, demos and activities that will make the meeting just plain fun. The biggest …

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The Future of Connected Health, Chapter 2

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Many of you commented on the future – in response to my earlier blog, Chapter 1 – and provided terrific insights.  Your posts included future scenarios that I missed and reviewed critical components of a healthcare system improved by the ubiquitous information and communication technologies that have transformed essentially every other industry before us. At …

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