There was a lot of humility on stage when members of government organizations presented this week at the Healthy Communities Data Summit (HCDS) in San Francisco: “We could never pull this off on our own.” “We move at snail’s pace.” … Continue reading
There was a lot of humility on stage when members of government organizations presented this week at the Healthy Communities Data Summit (HCDS) in San Francisco: “We could never pull this off on our own.” “We move at snail’s pace.” … Continue reading
Constraints create creativity. But they have to be the right constraints for the problem you’re trying to solve. @aza#hrefactored — Rachel Kalmar (@grapealope) May 13, 2013 Vice President of Jawbone Aza Raskin via Rachel Kalmar, a data scientist at Misfit Wearables, managed … Continue reading
What would Detroit look like today if the Big Three had responded earlier and differently to the disruption caused by Japanese import cars? What would Yahoo’s future look like if it had not considered $5 billion an absurdly high acquisition … Continue reading
Given the US consumer’s growing reliance on mobile technology, more people are turning to their smartphones to make better decisions about health care. For employers, this trend poses an enormous opportunity: with drug prices on the rise, and health care … Continue reading
A new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association states leaders in the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) are calling for a “next generation” of electronic health records (EHRs) that focuses on enhanced usability. An array … Continue reading
On paper, The Health Technology Forum’s (HTF) Innovation Conference this month looked like a barnburner. California Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom, a theme addressing the issue of access for the globally underserved, and a free breakfast? What more does a conference need? For … Continue reading
At Health 2.0 we have a natural bias toward the innovator, the entrepreneur, and the developer. Health care is largely broken, and those upstarts have the potential to fix it. But it’s by no means easy. Part of what we’re … Continue reading
A few months ago I wrote a post for a conference on health and design (MedLove) about the importance of process in designing for health care. Starting with the Double Diamond from the Design Council I made the case for … Continue reading
“Give us our damn data!” – It’s a common refrain from patients who want access to their medical records. Many assume they are entitled to information so intensely personal, learning too late that obtaining them is … a process. The errors, … Continue reading
In the Health 2.0 world we’ve been talking about and having fun with definitions. There’s a whole list of technologies being used in health (SaaS, cloud, mobile, community, sensor et al.) that my partner Indu Subaiya and I (and others) … Continue reading
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