Though I write and speak on the latest digital health trends covering all of medicine and healthcare, my background in psychiatry and behavioral sciences gives me a unique perspective on the digital mental health movement. Here’s a recap of my latest posts… Review of Self Help Anxiety Assessment app, a free resource for techniques to manage...
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Hack-a-thon events bring software developers, business developers, designers, and dreamers together to think up, build, and create projects. Within the past few years, hack-a-thons — also known by other names like code-a-thons or appjams — have encouraged quick turnaround times for projects. These are extraordinarily popular in the San Francisco / Silicon...
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iMedicalApps, a leading blog for mobile applications for physicians, pharmacists, and other healthcare providers, has graciously taken me on as a guest writer for their site. I’m grateful to Satish Misra, a partner, editor, and an internal medicine resident doc at Johns Hopkins, for the opportunity! You can read some of my articles already up on...
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Telehealth involves incorporating care beyond traditional clinics and hospitals, and into two more domains: (1) at home, (2) in the community. Thomas Nesbitt, MD MPH, at the University of California, Davis, spoke at UC Davis’s most recent monthly Health IT seminar covering the future of telehealth. I covered some of the questions concerning telehealth in...
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Numerous industry and economic changes are causing healthcare to incorporate telehealth and mobile health technologies. Thomas Nesbitt, MD MPH, at the University of California, Davis, spoke at our most recent monthly Health IT seminar covering the future of telehealth. He declared that the shortage of physicians, President Obama’s Affordable Care Act with...
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