The Hype and Hope of “mHealth”
Another day, another flyer arrives for a seminar on “mHealth.” One that showed up in my mailbox this week is typical: high-gloss images of mobile phones and heart signals, celebratory claims about how...
View ArticleTowards Accountable Care Cultures: Minding Our “Clinical Footprint”
If , while reading this blog, you have a medical emergency, please stop reading and dial 911 or go to a nearby emergency room. Because sometimes you just need help from a doctor or other medical...
View ArticleWaiting and Innovating for 21st Century Healthcare
I rushed home in crazy, foggy traffic Tuesday evening to see the President’s State of the Union address. I had left work hours earlier to head to a doctor’s appointment that had taken me four months of...
View ArticleInspiring the U.S. Innovation Engine for Healthcare
I am on a plane returning from the annual HIMSS conference on health information technologies. As I watch the borderless states go by far below, I can see the lines and circles of our interstates and...
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