Richard Fury, MD, of Kaiser Permanente emailed me recently, asking: “Is there any hope for SMS health alerts when patients are due for preventive care? As you know, patients want this, we want to provide this, but without symptomatic incentives adoption is poor. Thoughts?” I think there is hope for SMS health alerts targeting people […]
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Video: The “e” is for engagement
The Center for Connected Health did a lovely job with their symposium videos, split-screening so you can see the slides. My speech is up, along with all the other keynotes: Full text (or a version of it) is available here, along with a discussion thread.
À la recherche du temps perdu
When I saw this latest data set, I flashed on the phrase “À la recherche du temps perdu” which roughly translates as “In search of lost time” or “Remembrance of things past” (a seven-volume novel by Marcel Proust that I never did finish reading). Look how much time we have collectively “lost” and look at what […]
Don’t immediately believe the mhealth hype – Dave Clifford
Carrying on the tradition of taking an epic comment and publishing it as a stand-alone post, I’m very happy to feature Dave Clifford’s take on the new mobile health data: I care very deeply about numbers and measuring what people are doing in reality versus expectations. I believe that polling is a useful quantitative tool […]
Go mobile
In 2008, I summarized Pew Internet’s health findings in 7 words of wisdom: Recruit doctors. Let e-patients lead. Go mobile.* Four years later, I’m banging the same drum, but with even more data to back it up. The market for mobile-ready health information continues to grow, even as health apps are just simmering along (in […]
The e is for engagement
What if we redefined the Quantified Self movement to include everyone who keeps a pair of “skinny jeans” in their closet? What if the 85% of U.S. adults who own a cell phone understood that it’s potentially a tool for health tracking? What if everyone designing health care tools first talked with patients and caregivers […]
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