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Genius Bar for Healthcare – Not Ready for Primetime

September 15, 2020 By Bryan Vartabedian · Reading Time: 3 minutes

A challenge was thrown down on Twitter recently: If we had a Genius Bar for healthcare what would it look like? (paraphrased and originally asked by health designer Nick Dawson) I’ve seen this question before and it reflects a recurring ideal in healthcare: the efficient, service-oriented transactional experience where a problem is identified and fixed. But the ... Continue Reading about Genius Bar for Healthcare – Not Ready for Primetime

Tagged With: Patient experience

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Walgreens VillageMD and the Retail Medical Home

July 9, 2020 By Bryan Vartabedian · Reading Time: 3 minutes

In the next iteration of pharmacy chains positioned as health delivery businesses, Walgreens announced that they will at­tach primary care clinics to hun­dreds of their retail stores. In a partnership with clinic provider VillageMD, Walgreens will invest 1bn in equity over the next 3 years. From The Wall Street Journal on the Walgreens VillageMD ... Continue Reading about Walgreens VillageMD and the Retail Medical Home

Tagged With: Retail medicine

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The Problem with Predicting Physician Supply and Demand

July 6, 2020 By Bryan Vartabedian · Reading Time: 5 minutes

The Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) has released a report, The Complexities of Physician Supply and Demand: Projections from 2018 to 2033, predicting a substantial future shortfall of physicians. The AAMC represents medical schools and teaching hospitals and offers services to its member institutions including medical education data. Trying to ... Continue Reading about The Problem with Predicting Physician Supply and Demand

Tagged With: Future, MD Future, Medical education

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Telemedicine Hype Cycle and the Future of Remote Care

June 30, 2020 By Bryan Vartabedian · Reading Time: 3 minutes

A recent STATNews First Opinion piece suggested that we’re seeing the abandonment of telemedicine by physicians after a strong start in 2020. Data from Phreesia shows early adoption in March 2020 with a fall off in May - This pattern reflects the earliest phases of the telemedicine hype cycle.  Distracted and disillusioned maybe. Abandoned, no. So what ... Continue Reading about Telemedicine Hype Cycle and the Future of Remote Care

Tagged With: Technology, Telemedicine

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Can We be More Human?

June 24, 2020 By Bryan Vartabedian · Reading Time: < 1 minute

Will computers make us more human? The argument has been made as AI continues its march in and around us. It’s kind of an odd question because how can we be more human than we already are? We can only be as human as we are. We can only be us. Okay, you could reasonably argue that technology has pulled us away from one another and made us more distant and ... Continue Reading about Can We be More Human?

Tagged With: Artificial intelligence, Human

Future Medicine, Technology

The Truth About Telemedicine and Stethoscopes

April 28, 2020 By Bryan Vartabedian · Reading Time: 2 minutes

I watched a news segment this week about the rising popularity of telemedicine. The segment profiled a doctor and showed him conducting a telemedicine visit in his home. To my surprise he was wearing a stethoscope around his neck. It got me thinking about telemedicine and stethoscopes.  I asked my wife, ‘what’s he plannin’ do with that stethoscope, I ... Continue Reading about The Truth About Telemedicine and Stethoscopes

Tagged With: Physician Identity, Stethoscope, Telemedicine

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Bryan Vartabedian is a pediatrician at Baylor College of Medicine / Texas Children’s Hospital and one of health care’s influential voices on technology & medicine.
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