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This morning, as most of you already know, the Supreme Court ruled that the Privacy Protection and Affordable Care Act (commonly known as ACA) is constitutional and basically left the entire law intact. While it was no surprise that this was a close 5...

Applications for telemedicine solutions for health care continue to expand exponentially as hospitals, clinics, and specialty practices in communities large and small seek ways to decrease costs while expanding reach. In its report, Telemedicine: Opportunities for Medical and Electronic Providers, BCC Research projects, “The growth of the market will go from $9.8 billion in 2010 to $23 billion in 2015. That’s a compound annual growth rate of 18.6 percent.” In rural areas, telemedicine allows a physician to use two-way video technology to examine patients in remote locations, prescribe medicines...

Over the next several weeks, I will be authoring a series of posts on some of the keynote speakers slated to present at the 2011 Connected Health Symposium. This year, the Symposium is unparalleled and we’re trying a multimedia approach to get the word...

Two news pieces I read over the weekend reminded me of the societal challenges we face implementing connected health. Through our work at the Center for Connected Health, as well as the good work of others, we now have enough proof of concept to know...