Fard Johnmar
Fard Johnmar is a digital health futurist.
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Health technology
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…
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?
Patient voices
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…
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
Health technology
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…
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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