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Seriously: Is Digital Health The Answer To Tech Bubble Angst?
By David Shaywitz As an ever increasing amount of money seems determined to chase an ever greater number of questionable ideas, it’s perhaps not surprising that inquiring minds want to know: (1) Are we...
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Medicine Unplugged
By Eric Topol, MD Just as the little mobile wireless devices radically transformed our day-to-day lives, so will such devices have a seismic impact on the future of health care. It’s already taking off...
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From Nursify to Visit Minder: Seven iPhone Apps We’d Like to See
By David Sack, MD I read a few months ago that the number of available iPhone apps had exceeded a million, with new apps now appearing that are intended to help sort through the mountain of other apps....
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How the iPhone Might Disrupt The Medical Device Industry
By Dr. Wes Doctors wanting to determine a patient’s atrial fibrillation burden have a myriad of technologies at their disposal: 24-hour Holter monitors, 30-day event monitors that are triggered by an...
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App-Happy Health Care Full of Optimism, Money
By Michael Millenson There is a corner of the health care industry where rancor is rare, the chance to banish illness beckons just a few mouse clicks away and talk revolves around venture deals, not...
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Lessons from MinuteClinic
By John Goodman After entering the clinic a thought occurred to me: why do we need doctors? Then a second thought: why do we need nurses? Ah, but I’m getting ahead of myself. About a decade before the...
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Bad Directions
By Rob Lamberts, MD I love the GPS analogy for health care. Patients need a GPS for their health, showing them the reality of their past, present, and future health. The analogy has not only shown me...
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Closing the Translational Gap: A Challenge Facing Innovators in Medical...
By David Shaywitz, MD The gap between model or potential solutions and solutions that work in the real world – the translational gap — is arguably the greatest challenge we have in healthcare, and is...
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Medical Apps: The Next Generation
By Kenny Lin, MD Doctors of my generation have experienced dramatic changes in the way we access the information we need to care for patients. As a medical student 15 years ago, my “peripheral brain”...
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A Coming Storm: FDA Regulation of Mobile Medical Applications
By Ryan Minarovich I recently had the great fortune of attending Health 2.0 in San Francisco. The conference was abuzz with new medical technologies that are harnessing the power of innovation to solve...
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How Should Apps Be Prescribed?
By Leslie Kernisan, MD Should I be prescribing apps, and if so, which ones? I recently came across this video of Happtique’s CEO Ben Chodor describing his company to Health 2.0’s Matthew Holt. In it,...
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The State of Self-Tracking
By ERNESTO RAMIREZ and GARY WOLF In January we started asking ourselves, “How many people self-track?” It was an interesting question that stemmed from our discussion with Susannah Fox about the...
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The Ghost of Steve Jobs and Your Bottom Line
By JOE FLOWER The progeny of the iPhone and the iPad will change the shape of your institution — and your balance sheet. One of the more striking images, to me, out of the online spew in the last few...
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The Economics of Google Glass in Healthcare
By Kyle Samani A lot of people think Google Glass can be used as a development platform to create amazing healthcare apps. So do I. Many of these ideas are relatively obvious, and many of them could be...
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Driving Front Line Innovation In Health Care
By David Duncan Jennifer Stinson was a nurse at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) in Toronto who enjoyed brainstorming new ideas for improving care, especially for the kids with cancer she...
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Validating Mrs. X
By Ali Ansary Mrs. X is a 46 year-old mother of two and wife to an Iraq war veteran. On this particular day she meets with her oncologist to follow up after treatment for skin cancer. Beyond her...
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The Smartphone Physical
By Shiv Gaglani What if the next time you step into your doctor’s office for an examination, she reaches into her white coat pocket and pulls out an iPhone instead of a stethoscope? That’s the idea...
View ArticleCommentology: Where Do Apps Go When They Die?
The developers of the app Pain Care, the winner of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Project Health Design challenge two years ago, have this to say about THCB contributing writer Dr. Leslie...
View ArticleHealthcare’s Tech Disconnect: Why Aren’t We Building the Products Patients...
By Leslie R. Schover Having been supported by several small business grants from the National Cancer Institute to create online interventions for cancer patients, I have been learning gradually about...
View ArticleConfessions of a Self-Tracker
By Michael Painter, MD Hello. I am Mike Painter, and I track. I don’t necessarily have a compelling reason to track health parameters such as exercise patterns, heart rate, weight, diet and the...
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