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Headlines, Heuristics and Subtlety in Interpreting Connected Health Studies

We live in a headline/hyperlinked world.  A couple of years back, I learned through happenstance that my most popular blog posts all had catchy titles.  I’m pretty confident that people who read this blog do more than scan the titles, but there is so much information coming at us these days, it’s often difficult to …

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Different Chronic Illnesses Demand Different Connected Health Strategies

In the seven or so years I’ve been blogging, I’ve only written a few posts that prompted controversy in the comments section. Looking back, I notice that these posts have involved chronic illness management, motivation, adherence and/or engagement. In fact, a commentator recently felt my writing was that of an old-fashioned doctor who believes that …

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Patient Engagement: Overused Sound Bite or Transformative Opportunity?

Criteria for Stage 3 of meaningful use of EHRs were released recently and there is lots of controversy, as would have been predicted. One set of recommendations that is raising eyebrows is around patient engagement. The recommendations include three measures of engagement, and providers would have to report on all three of them, but successfully …

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Sign Posts on the Road to Connected Health Adoption

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

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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Buckle Your Safety Belt, Connected Health is Taking Off in 2015

While so many folks were writing about their impressions of 2014, I was enjoying the holidays with my family.  During that time I was thinking about the notable events of 2014 in connected health, but more importantly how they will set the stage for 2015, which is poised to be a breakout year. One year …

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From Denial to Responsibility – Connected Health Can Make Us All Accountable for Our Care

My dad was a wonderful guy who could fill the room with his personality.  He grew up during the Great Depression and was a World War II veteran.  I was thinking of him recently while considering how much health care delivery has changed in the last 100 years. When asked about his health, my dad …

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