Healthcare is joining the network economy.
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success during the upcoming transformation.
by Randy Williams, MD FACC, CEO of Pharos Innovations The results from the National Institutes of Health (NIH)-sponsored Tele-HF trial are in, and the findings are worth considering . The results are counter to most of the findings of other studies examining telemonitoring for heart failure and at face value are disappointing to us, and the [...]
Frequent keynoter, speaker, panel moderator at 40+ industry conferences in the past 3 years Opening keynote speaker – 2004-2009 Healthcare Unbound Conferences Speaker at corporate events sponsored by: Guidant Roche Diagnostics Centocor Arizona Hospital Association Gateway Computer Connecticut Hospital Association, Walgreens National Advisory Board Blue Cross Blue Shield Association HomMed Honeywell Spacelabs …and others Facilitation/consulting [...]
BrightTALK is sponsoring a complimentary series of e-Health Summit webcasts this Wednesday, July 8. Here’s a full listing of the six eHealth Summit topics (Eastern Time). Click on the links to attend any or all of the webcasts. The series will be recorded for future on-demand access. EHR 2.0: Federal HITECH Act Creates Opportunities Beyond EMRs 8 Jul 2009 [...]
What’s the commonality among Medical Home, Telehealth, and Health IT/Information Exchange initiatives? They all relate to care coordination. As shown in the diagram below from the Kansas Health Policy Authority (KHPA), there’s a lot of overlap. A larger copy of the slide is available in this March 2 PowerPoint presentation by Marcia Neilsen , Executive [...]
The Healthcare Unbound Conference is a highlight of my year and I always look forward to it! What’s so special about this conference? First, the caliber of the people attending. It’s a stimulating mix of high-level clinical, technical and business types. The energy is flowing and many people have told me how much they like [...]
My colleague Tim Gee and I are guest bloggers on the Get-Connected Forum at the Center for Connected Health. We speculate on: What Will Microsoft’s HealthVault Mean to the Telehealth Community? Our bottom line: HealthVault overall is a positive for telehealth industry growth and scale, even though it will speed the inevitable commoditization of remote patient monitoring (RPM) devices. [...]
Would you like to have the experience of being parachuted into a deep forest with no map of where you are or clues about how to get out? If so, I suggest that you go directly to Microsoft’s new PHR at www.healthvault.com and just TRY to figure out where you are or where you’re headed. [...]
Greetings from Boston. I’ve been attending and speaking at the Inaugural Summit on Behavioral Telehealth: Technology for Behavior Change & Disease Management. The conference chair is Dr. Steve Locke, Prof. of Psychiatry at Harvard. He opened the meeting yesterday with a thoughtful line of questioning to the audience. Dr. Locke asked “How many of you audience members [...]
An article in Wireless Week announces the creation of a new species: a health care MVNO named LifeComm. LifeComm promises to move disease management, wellness, and fitness into new territories. What is a MVNO? More acronyms! What is a MVNO? A Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) is a mobile operator that does not own its own spectrum and [...]
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