We’re long overdue in welcoming Joe Kvedar MD of Partners Healthcare to the blogosphere. From his About page:
“The term “connected health” reflects the range of opportunities for technology-enabled care programs and the potential for new strategies in healthcare delivery.
“A division of Partners HealthCare, the Center for Connected Health works with Harvard Medical School-affiliated teaching hospitals, including Massachusetts General and Brigham and Women’s Hospitals. I am also active in my specialty of Dermatology both as a clinician and educator.”
Dr. Kvedar is also on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Participatory Medicine.
His new blog, about connected health, is The cHealth Blog. Mazel tov!
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Thanks, Dave!
Perfect timing — I’m presenting at the annual meeting of the National Forum for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention (http://hearthealthystrokefree.org/) tomorrow and will now work in a reference to the Connected Cardiac Care program mentioned in Joe’s current top post.
The self-tracking done by patients in that program dovetails with what Thomas Goetz has written about in The Decision Tree (and what we talked about at Friday’s #decisiontree event at the Pew Research Center: http://www.pewinternet.org/Presentations/2010/Apr/Wired.aspx).