Posted on August 10th, 2008 by Sean Khozin, MD, MPH
The doctor-patient relationship is the foundation of good medicine. Unfortunately, the interaction between doctors and patients can no longer be classified as a relationship. Needless administrative burdens have forced doctors to spend more time doing paperwork than seeing patients, a fact that has robbed physicians of the public trust they once enjoyed. A recent article [...]
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Posted on August 1st, 2008 by Sean Khozin, MD, MPH
Yesterday, we had our launch event for Hello Health, a lean and tech-enabled medical practice in Williamsburg (NYC) that sets a new standard for consumer-centric care. I’m one of the physicians at Hello Health and also the VP of Medical Affairs. The other two doctors are Devlyn Corrigan and physician-innovator Jay Parkinson, who also functions [...]
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Posted on June 27th, 2008 by Sean Khozin, MD, MPH
The game studio Virtual Heroes and the Department of Homeland Security have come together in making a new video game called Zero Hour: America’s Medic, which allows players to respond to terrorist attacks and diagnose and treat patients. Zero hour can be used for training first responders or just for fun.
More info: Virtual Heroes, WIRED
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Posted on May 30th, 2008 by Sean Khozin, MD, MPH
Myca + JP + Me = Hello Health
Coming soon to NYC
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Posted on May 30th, 2008 by Sean Khozin, MD, MPH
Redundant, inefficient, and impractical are some of the words that come to my mind when I think about many of the new ventures and products that enter the healthcare market. That’s why when I first heard about ZocDoc I was lost for words. They challenged my knee-jerk reactions to their counterparts.
Launched in September 2007, ZocDoc [...]
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Posted on May 20th, 2008 by Sean Khozin, MD, MPH
Google Health Beta was launched earlier today. This is a free service that provides an online space for patients to store their health information and share them with healthcare providers. Patients can either enter their information manually or have them imported automatically from a small list of providers such as the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical [...]
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Posted on May 15th, 2008 by Sean Khozin, MD, MPH
State of the art medical care usually comes with a high price tag, a reality that is fully palpable in the U.S. and starting to manifest itself in other parts of the world. A recent McKinsey Quarterly report estimates that healthcare spending in Japan can double as a proportion of their GDP in the next [...]
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Posted on March 1st, 2008 by Sean Khozin, MD, MPH
If a simple ICU checklist can save lives and decrease the rates of catheter-related bloodstream infections up to 66%, then imagine what more sophisticated tools and technologies can do. We have a very robust and well-funded biomedical research enterprise in this country. Unfortunately, we don’t have anything equivalent to that on the delivery side. What [...]
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Posted on February 16th, 2008 by Sean Khozin, MD, MPH
Yesterday, the U.S. National Academy of Engineering (NAE) announced the grand challenges for engineering in the 21st century. A panel of 18 thought leaders, representing a diverse range of expertise, spent over a year trying to identify factors that can lead to improving life on our planet. The panel produced a list of 14 “grand [...]
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