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Direct to Consumer Telehealth: Throwing The Baby Out With The Bathwater

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I would like to acknowledge the contributions of Catherine Schuster Bruce in this post. Catherine is a University of Bristol Medical Graduate who recently spent two months on placement with Partners Connected Health prior to starting work at the Royal London Hospital, London. Missed diagnosis. No Diagnosis. Dodgy Clinicians… There’s been a lot of hand …

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More Sign Posts on the Road To Connected Health Adoption

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Just three weeks ago, I wrote about sign posts on the road to connected health adoption. That post was meant to help readers appreciate the subtleties of a changing environment. A turn of phrase by a senior executive or thought leader can easily be missed if you’re not listening carefully. In this case, a senior …

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Sign Posts on the Road to Connected Health Adoption

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Everett Rogers is credited with the seminal text book on adoption, The Diffusion of Innovations. It is required reading for anyone who is interested in how new ideas become integrated into the fabric of life’s activities. I read this text back in the mid 90’s when we started working in telehealth and it influenced my …

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Five Accelerants to the Adoption of Connected Health

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I’m often asked, ‘If you could snap your fingers and do some things to accelerate the adoption of connected health, what would they be?’  I’ve resisted responding, thinking that things are not so simple and reducing the keys to adoption to a list is unrealistic.  However, I have been thinking lately about the cultural and …

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