Eric Dishman This week, almost 6 years to the day of giving similar testimony to the same Senate Special Subcommittee on Aging, I had the opportunity on behalf of theContinua Health Alliance (www.continuaalliance.org) to reflect on the persistent barriers that prevent the widespread implementation of telehealth, aging-in-place, and what Continua calls “e-care” (for “electronic care”) technologies. In this […]
Category: home-centered health care
Eric Dishman Intel Fellow Next week is an “Eric Goes to Washington” adventure, where I have the honor of testifying before the Senate Special Committee on Aging about “aging-in-place” technologies and policies. I also have the great opportunity to testify before the Health IT Policy Committee on the use of health IT for patient and family […]
The Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco has come and gone. One element on full display was the progress of GE Health. I’ve been predicting that homes will be the ultimate destination of new diagnostics and that, by 2020, most of what is done in a doctor’s office will be done in the home – […]
Eric Dishman I like to think of myself as being a lot like George Clooney. Okay, okay, more like Ryan Bingham, the airport- and airmile-addicted character he plays in the recent movie, Up in the Air. (Except I don’t have his good looks, frequent romantic liaisons with strangers, or a job downsizing other people…other than that, […]
Mike Magee (VIDEO here) “How much do you think my hospital should invest in electronic medical records over the next few years?” This was the question asked of me last year by a CEO of a large Health Care System. He was a member of the American Hospital Association’s Long Range Policy Committee. And I […]
In 2006, I predicted that much of what currently occurs in the doctor’s office would eventually be done by devices in the home with data transmitted automatically and wirelessly to one’s care team. OK you say for blood work and vital signs, but never diagnostic imaging. Well as you can see below in a piece […]
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