One Nation, Under Health – Inevitable – and, Connected for All!
Earlier this week, I presented our future vision at the HLTH conference in Las Vegas. I was fortunate to share the stage with Tanya Benenson, MD who serves as the Chief Medical Officer of ComcastNBCUniversal based in Philadelphia, PA. It was awesome to be able to speak passionately about our vision for a different healthcare […]
The Most Trusted Platform
Last fall, I had the privilege to attend the Employer Health Innovation Roundtable in both Boston and Las Vegas. EHIR is an up and coming forum for activist employers who are seeking to redefine their approach to healthcare delivery as they contemplate how to rein in costs, improve quality, and increase engagement. Kudos to Michael […]
Getting Real: Can Health 2.0 Stay Relevant?
Relevant (rĕl’ə-vənt) 1. Having to do with the matter at hand; to the point I read with amusement Susanna Fox’s redux review about the relevance of Health 2.0 in general and in changing patient’s behavior specifically. Here questions reveals her bias in a very limited definition of Health 2.0 that I attempted to abolish originally […]
Crossover Piquant: Check this out!
Piquant (pē-känt’) adj. Appealingly provocative Charming, interesting, or attractive One of the great promises of technology is to make things simpler, easier, and more affordable for end users. In the medical practice, we have so much complexity, difficulty, and cost in most of our processes that when we find something that actually works as adverti
Day 49: “Magically” raising the Bar in Primary Care
Magic (măj’ĭk) adj. Possessing distinctive qualities that produce unaccountable or baffling effects. Of, relating to, or invoking the supernatural The California Health Care Foundation does some really good work. I listened to their President Mark Smith give a speech at the Microsoft conference last June and came away really impressed with him and wh
Microsoft Vaults Ahead into the Personal Health Information Space
* I am out at the Eli Lilly Health 2.0 Summit and just finished a presentation by Microsoft Health Services team. It was an interesting presentation, if but for nothing else to show their worldwide commitment to health. It reminded me of the June Health Vault Summit I attended where I wrote but forgot to […]
Death to Innovators – The Tragedy of Healthcare Innovation
Tragedy (trăj’ĭ-dē) n. A disastrous event, especially one involving distressing loss or injury to life A tragic aspect or element. A drama or literary work in which the main character is brought to ruin or suffers extreme sorrow, especially as a consequence of a tragic flaw, moral weakness, or inability to cope with unfavorable circumstances. [&hell
Recap: Building Health 2.0 Into The Delivery System
Recap (rē-kăp) n. To replace a cap or caplike covering on: recapped the bottle. To restore (a used tire of a motor vehicle) to usable condition by bonding new rubber onto the worn tread and lateral surface. We had a busy session yesterday during my panel. Besides the irritating AV problems (in/out sound, survey probs, […]
Building Health 2.0 Into the Delivery System
Delivery (dĭ-lĭv‘ə-rē) n. The act of conveying or delivering, the act of transferring to another. Something delivered, as a shipment or package. I am enroute to Boston for the Health 2.0 conference. I look forward to moderating a great session in the afternoon – “Great Debate #2 – Building Health 2.0 Into The Delivery System”
Media Advisory: Announcement of Initial Prize Design for Potential $10 Million Healthcare X PRIZE to Revolutionize U.S. Health System
I am in Washington DC to participate in the 6th Annual World Health Care Congress. It is a power packed meeting with tons of interesting speakers, presentations, announcements from many of the thought leaders throughout the industry. The demographics of this conference are certainly older, and the DC location gives it a very political / […]