Jul 24, 2008 | consumer health, Engagement, Policy, Uncategorized
Next week on July 29th, I have the honor to give a presentation at the “Community Meeting” of AHIC in Washington D.C. While the link is thin on details, it does provide one with a link to listen in on this meeting, via video webcasting. So what is the...
Jul 14, 2008 | Care Management, Connected Health, consumer health, Engagement, Uncategorized
Late last week, Intel announced that it had received FDA approval or its consumer/caregiver centric health device, the Intel Health Guide. The Health Guide is a single purpose platform to facilitate telehealth by collecting data from devices (heart rate, weight,...
Jun 26, 2008 | Engagement, Privacy, Uncategorized
The latest issue of HIStalk mentioned a recent post by noted Harvard Professor Nick Carr (he wrote the controversial book, Does IT Matter). The post addresses the rapidly evolving trend towards “Cloud Computing” and raises a number of issues/implications...
Jun 23, 2008 | Engagement, Uncategorized
This just in, Microsoft’s HealthVault announced a partnership with AT&T and Covisint to enable healthcare data exchange across a highly distributed network. While I have not had a chance to really dig into this announcement, it does appear, at least on the...
Jun 20, 2008 | consumer health, Uncategorized
without automated data entry. Simply as that. An exceedingly small percentage of consumers, probably 1% at most, will bother to do the self-entry of all the information necessary to make a truly viable and useful PHR (e.g., medications, lab results, images, clinical...
