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What’s your physician digital health innovator type?

Fard Johnmar
Tech
November 8, 2014

Where are all the physician digital health innovators?

This is a question I hear all the time from people working in, researching and observing the fast-moving health technology arena.

The general thinking is that physicians are not involved enough in digital health — and it shows.  Over the past year, I’ve been making it a point to talk with people from around the world, including doctors, about their perceptions of digital health.

Physicians …

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What’s your physician digital health innovator type?

Beyond Dr. Google: How new technologies will affect patient-provider relationship

Fard Johnmar
Patient
January 19, 2014

Here are a few words some physicians and medical professionals have used to describe patients who have turned to Dr. Google for information and advice on their medical conditions: irritating, suspicious, distrustful and challenging.

Perhaps frustrated with physicians’ continued resistance to Internet-empowered patients, Dr. Kevin Pho urged them to “deal with” the fact that patients “Google their symptoms.”

But, we all know the Internet-informed patient is old news.  I’m here with …

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Beyond Dr. Google: How new technologies will affect patient-provider relationship

We need to systematically evaluate digital health technologies

Fard Johnmar
Tech
April 15, 2012

An old colleague once told me: “When you assume it makes an ass out of u and me.”

Many of us would consider being an ass a bad thing.  If so, why are we making so many assumptions about digital health?  Belief in the power of digital technologies to solve a host of pressing problems in health has us poised to devote billions of dollars to their adoption and development.  But …

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We need to systematically evaluate digital health technologies

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