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Mobile has put patients in the driver’s seat. Here’s how.
Many people used to believe that Facebook was an extremely defensible business and that it would be almost impossible for another social network to compete. It has grown to an enormous scale with...
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Why doctors and digital experts should work together to improve patient health
As a family doctor, I have seen a dramatic shift in the range of people I work alongside every day -- all for the better. When I was in training, most family doctors worked only with other family...
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Want a successful digital health initiative? These 5 things need to happen...
I have recently discussed imperatives of patient-centric health care, creating patient engagement, and potential value of various digital health technologies. Apart from these considerations are those...
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In medicine, too many disruptors disrupt disruption
Recently, I was dining with elite radiologists. In that uncomfortable silence between dessert and the check, I said, “radiology must shift the traditional paradigm by creating value streams using...
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Should this doctor be threatened by smartphone ophthalmoscopy?
For decades, physicians and other health professionals have opened their offices with the assumption that everyone will need to see the doctor eventually. Why? Because that’s where you go if you have a...
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Imaging a future where all medical procedures and surgeries are recorded
"Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged as humility." - Robin Morgan Fifteen years into the future, in...
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What’s preventing telemedicine from taking off?
Health care remains one of the few services that require people to have a face-to-face interaction to obtain access. But more and more consumers are questioning that reality, and change is on the way....
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The rate-limiting step in medical innovation shouldn’t change. Here’s why.
The health care industry has traditionally moved at a snail’s pace when adopting innovation, but there is growing evidence that Silicon Valley’s ways are rubbing off on the sector. Recently, we have...
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The next big thing in health care? It probably will start as something small.
Venture Capitalist Fred Wilson had a great post a while back titled, "Bootstrap Your Network With A High Value Use Case." He points out that the initial value proposition for Waze (the community-based...
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Should physicians carry 2 sets of mobile devices?
Between September 9th and October 6th, 2015, the consumer-level computer world was turned completely on its head. In early-September, Apple hosted its annual iPhone press release that announced the...
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Why an Uber for health care is doomed to fail
Back in September 2007, I created a new kind of doctor practice as shown in the screenshot up there. The iPhone had come out three months prior (but the App Store hadn’t launched yet) and Google...
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An Uber for health care is closer than you think
Will there be an Uber for health care? Articles are split. The truth is there will be an Uber for health care. It just isn’t here yet. Expect it to be widely available in the next decade and as a...
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What smartphone apps can learn from the humble pager
Despite high interest and hopes, the clinical adoption of new mobile technologies such as smartphone apps and wearables for health care has been modest. While some clinicians and clinics are of course...
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How my cardiology practice changed with a click
I was a bit nervous as I had never done this before. I wasn’t even sure what I was going to do once I saw him. The only certainty in my mind at that time was that this was not the Norman Rockwell...
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These are the technologies that can help achieve the cancer moonshot
In his State of the Union address in 2016, President Obama pledged a new national effort to find a cure for cancer. This is the cancer "moonshot." Last year, he announced the launch of the Precision...
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Connected health: It’s time to write a different headline
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 my...
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Here are the limitations of virtual doctor visits
Virtual visits are increasingly the rage amongst forward-thinking healthcare providers that want to jump on the telehealth band wagon. Extending the office visit across distance, using the same...
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7 tips for doctors to be successful in telemedicine
In early 2014 I decided to use the six state licenses I had obtained as a locum tenens physician to start practicing telemedicine. Since then I have worked with several telemedicine platforms. I use...
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Innovative technologies could save millions of lives in the developing world
Imagine two babies being born at the exact same time: a little girl in Sweden and a baby boy in Mozambique. What are their chances for a long, healthy life? In the Scandinavian country of the easily...
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Why new doctors should think beyond the stethoscope
This spring, thousands of medical graduates will cross the stage and become doctors. Yet practicing medicine isn’t the only career for these young professionals; the path to becoming a doctor also...
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