The PSFK folks aptly dubbed the panel discussion that Jay and I were on last week “simplify my healthcare.” It’s a great description and speaks directly to what we do at HelloHealth: we enable the delivery of top quality care in a convenient, efficient, and pleasant manner. We use smartly designed technology to simplify the [...]
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I’ll be on a panel at the PSFK conferene tomorrow with my business partner taking about HelloHealth. Stop by if you’re in the area.
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President Obama has proposed that widespread adoption of health IT can save us $80 billion a year in healthcare costs. This is a bold statement that has many physicians and experts wondering how the clunky health IT solutions currently on the market can add so much value to our system. In response to Obama’s projections, [...]
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I have a lot of interest in finding practical applications for data visualization techniques, where specific patterns are revealed by merging and visually depicting large numbers of seemingly discordant data points. Data visualization can be of potential use in analyzing population health outcomes by, for example, scanning large databases of specific medical interventions paired with [...]
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I was just introduced to Medi-Share, a non-profit Christian ministry where people share their high cost medical expenses. They even have services to negotiate rates for individuals after they’re thrown an exaggerated medical bill. It seems like they’ve created a viable alternative to the expensive and intrusive third party payment system. On their website they [...]
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The market is saturated with hundreds of EMR/EHR/PHR systems. Most of them are inefficient systems that disrupt physicians’ work flow, adding little value to delivering better care. This is more than mere lack of insight on behalf of software engineers and points to a more important barrier to smart health IT design where the needs [...]
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It’s been over a month since my last blog post. A lot has happened since then. Barack Hussein Obama was sworn in as the 44th president of the United States, not once, but twice! Our medical practice was featured on CNN in a segment called “You won’t go in to see the doctor,” showcasing a [...]
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Ever wondered what truly empowered healthcare consumers look like? Take a look at the picture below. As part of our recent community outreach and marketing campaign, we are giving free flu shots at Hello Health all week. “got my free flu shot today from hellohealth. yay!”
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Wordle is a great website that lets you generate word clouds from free text and websites by visually depicting the most commonly used words. Below is the word cloud configuration for my blog. It looks like I use the words physicians and healthcare a lot.
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I’ve always believed that physicians are one of the most tech-savvy groups of people. Apart from the historic use of sophisticated diagnostic and procedural devices, physicians have shown their canny use of technology by, for example, being among the first group of professionals to adopt PDAs. Epocrates replaced the bulky Physicians’ Desk Reference almost overnight. [...]
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