Healthcare Technology
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Malaria World Malaria day is today – Tuesday, April 25, 2017. Recognizing global efforts to control and perhaps one day eradicate this major killer that disproportionately affects my home country of Africa. The WHO African Region continues to shoulder the heaviest malaria burden, accounting for an estimated 90% of malaria cases and 92% of malaria […]
What will it take to move our healthcare system to a truly patient-centered system? We know based on multiple data points that engaged patients have a big impact on the successful outcome of treatment. Leonard Kish cited the phrase back in 2012 Patient Engagement is the Blockbuster Drug of the Century Referencing a 2009 Kaiser […]
This is Australia’s premier health innovation convention on the technologies that are revolutionizing healthcare and the implementation of ehealth initiatives and I was honored to be asked to give a keynote presentation at the Digital Health Summit taking place in Melbourne 29-30 March 2017. The bonus was listening to so many great presentations throughout the day […]
Secure Your Accounts Today No better example of simple security preventing what would have been at best a major disruption of my account or at worse a loss of control and embarrassment than last night I was joining the #HCLDR tweetup when I received notification on my phone Someone was trying to login to my account […]
The snafu at the Oscars with another movie being announced as a winner before being corrected has created quite a stir! You can watch the fateful sequence here and the audience reaction captured by the LA Time photographer Al Seib Watch the moment when “La La Land” is mistakenly announced best picture winner https://t.co/h3WScQsfxB pic.twitter.com/5QzqnwfwRv — Los Angeles […]
HIMSS is rapidly approaching and I am excited to be presenting: The Best Exotic Marigold Hospital: Learning digital lessons from the hospitality industry to personalize the healthcare experience on Monday February 20, 2017 — 01:30 PM EST – 02:30 PM EST in the Chapin Theatre (W320) – Session ID: 43 The Friction of Travel As part […]
The Year 2030 by Dr Nick van Terheyden (@DrNic1) How will the world of medicine change in the next 15 years? Well 15 years ago AOL had just bought Time Warner, the human genome had just been deciphered and published and the first inhabitants of the International Space Station had arrived. The Year 2030 – […]
Designing an Effective Population Health Program Population health is the topic du jour for the health care industry, and I’m glad to see us all focusing on this important issue. But there is a lot of confusion as to what, exactly, constitutes population health. Or more correctly, an effective population health system. A good population […]
MedicAlert I am excited to be elected to the MedicAlert Board joining Jessica Federer, head of digital development at Bayer. As Barton Tretheway, CAE, chair of the MedicAlert Foundation Board pointed out Their collective experience aligns with our priorities and will be immeasurable to us as we look to leverage the power of new technology to expand the […]
Channeling Churchill to deal with innovation, impatience and chaos in healthcare To say that healthcare is changing is to understate the situation dramatically. The combination of new technology and a demand by payers and consumers for more value for their money has created an environment rich in both innovation and impatience. You may think you […]
I struggle to keep my contacts in order and synchronized, not just across devices but across ecosystems and channels. How do you keep your old style digitized version of the rolodex in sync with your twitter followers and LinkedIn connections? How do you know when your friends join a new social media channel that you […]
On Tuesday March 15th, 2016 a the Dell Lounge at South by Southwest (SXSW) we hosted the #DoMoreHIT Thinktank event. This was Dell’s 5th’s annual healthcare Think Tank. Together with my good friend and colleague Mandi Bishop – Healthcare Analytics Innovations & Consulting Practice Lead, Dell, #HIT100 influencer, @MandiBPro we were joined by a veritable who’s who of […]
This piece in the NY Times makes sobering reading: As reported by the NYT the concussions research was deeply flawed and drawing expertise from companies who cut their teeth working for tobacco companies and as the evidence mounts it is hard to draw anything but a very negative view of the organizations and their […]
The move to value-based payments will be the most significant trend of 2016, because it will force both caregivers and health plans to radically change the way they think and act. Population health, which emphasizes identifying risk and gaps in care, and filling those gaps, will be an existential capability for hospitals, physicians and health […]
A recent report published by Jane Sarsohn-Kahn for the California Health Foundation: Digitizing the Safety Net Health Tech Opportunities for the Undeserved offers some deep insights into reaching the population most in need of help but often left out in the discussions of the latest and greatest technology to break into the news cycle. As pointed out […]
Once again I am headed to CES this year. Last year the DigitalHealth pavilion was overflowing with people, innovation, and wearables designed to influence us to a healthier life. The show still features the big sections of technology for cars, televisions and 3-D printers but much of the show is being turned over to healthcare […]
Human capital – the stock of knowledge, habits, social and personality attributes embodied in the ability to perform labor so as to produce economic value. When reading the above definition of human capital, a particular word jumps out… habits. I am passionate about habits because poor lifestyle choices—or bad habits—are the number one driver of […]
The Power of Knowledge Life has changed and access to information is no longer the definition of value – we have seen these changes in the past as far back as 1494 when the printing press was introduced making books and knowledge more widely available: And proceeds through newspapers, the steam engine, photography and the death […]
Its an exciting time to be in healthcare and medicine – technology is bringing so much innovation and opportunity to improve the delivery, quality and reduce the cost of healthcare. Much remains to be done At our our recent DellWorld conference we captured insights into this exciting future As Dr. Jai Menon vice president and chief research […]
Back in 1985 the world was introduced to the Doc and Marty McFly in the iconic movie “Back to the Future” which as followed by 2 sequels – we were treated to a trip into the future that took us to October 26, 2015 at 4:29 as you can see from this clip from the […]
I presented to the Healthcare Thinktank in Austin on October 15 a presentation titles: Healthcare disruption This was the outline: Gartner ranked Dell the #1 worldwide IT services provider in healthcare in 2014. Dell sees global disruptions in healthcare delivery and continues to invest in strategies to address these rapid changes. They are actively enhancing […]
With a nod to Star Trek, Bones, Data and even the Holo Doctor Much of medical practice is as much a mystery to doctors as it is to patients. Human physiology is so complex, and the external variables so numerous, that we often have no sure knowledge of why one patient did well or another […]
Hope you can join me and my fellow Medical Informatics friends: R. Dirk Stanley, MD, MPH @dirkstanley Luis Saldana, MD @lSaldanaMD Luke Webster, MD @LukeWebsterATL Rasu Shrestha, MD, MBA @RasuShrestha John Mattison, MD @JohnEMattison for our inaugural #CMIOChat on Thursday September 24 at 4pm ET (Regular Chat 3rd Thursday of every month) Here’s the […]
“You are all individuals” Brian, speaking to the masses in Monty Python’s Life of Brian. Finally, medicine is getting the message. One of my school friends was part of the original genome project that kicked off in 1984, finally got underway in 1990, and reached completion in 2003. It was a $3B project (by the way, […]
I am excited to announce I am joining Dell Healthcare and Life Sciences as their Chief Medical Officer. Dell has been ranked number one in Healthcare Provider Services for six consecutive years by Gartner and continue to expand their presence in healthcare space with an incredible range of solutions and services that are combined with extensive experience offerings of hardware and […]
