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Wellocracy Is Coming! Watch For It
After working at this remote patient monitoring game for about 10 years now, we are ready to bring self-care to consumers – couch potatoes, weekend warriors and all of us in between hoping to live a...
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Two Types of Innovation: What is the Right Balance?
I recently coined a phrase while talking to our senior leadership at Partners HealthCare. I told them that we aspire to bring them “innovations they don’t yet know they need.” Folks at the Center...
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What’s a Guy Like Me Doing at the Consumer Electronics Show, Anyway?
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...
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Engagement is the Next Frontier for Connected Health
Seeing the fast-growing market for personal connected health devices displayed at the recent Consumer Electronics Show, I couldn’t help but reflect on how far consumer connected health has come. Not...
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Connected Health Predictive Analytics: A Long Road Ahead
We’re spending a lot of time at the Center for Connected Health (CCH) these days thinking about and experimenting with algorithms. It’s part of our general interest in micro-segmenting the population...
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Will ACOs Fail?
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...
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Is Facebook a Predictor of Your Health?
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...
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The cHealth Blog Turns Three: Reflections on 3 Years of Progress in Connected...
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...
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Serendipity, Personalization and Connected Health
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...
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Is Design Important In Healthcare?
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...
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Is the End of Search the Beginning of Personalized Prevention?
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...
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What Does Screening Your Phone Records Have To Do With Health Care?
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...
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Is the Future of Healthcare Delivery Guidelines or Personalized Medicine?
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...
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Could Mobile Health Become Addictive?
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...
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Doc Punished For Treating Patients Via Skype: What To Make Of It?
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...
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Platforms vs. Products in Connected Health
The mobile health revolution is occurring in the midst of a much broader shift in business models around computing and software. For decades, IT suppliers sold proprietary hardware by locking...
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Making Health Addictive
I first posed the question, “Could Mobile Health Become Addictive?” on August 20th. Since then I’ve done more thinking and I’m warming to the concept. In fact, I’ll be addressing this topic when I...
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Making Health Addictive II: Make it About Life
I have been thinking a lot about this concept of addictive health lately. I really believe it has legs. In my last post and in a recent talk, I remarked how addicted people are to their smartphones...
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Making Heath Addictive III: Make it Personal
This is the third in a series of posts about a concept I’m really excited about: Making Health Addictive. In addition to a framing post, I also recently posted on the first of three strategies,...
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Giving Thanks
The cHealth Blog is almost four years old. during that time, I’ve been both flattered and pleased as readership has grown and other outlets have seen fit to re-publish many of the posts. I’ve learned...
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