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Digital Health, Technology

Ionic – Fitbit’s Expensive Step Counter

August 29, 2017 By Bryan Vartabedian · Reading Time: 2 minutes

Building on their long line of increasingly amped-up step counters, Fitbit announced the release of its latest product, the Ionic. Coming in at $300, the Fitbit Ionic brings all the usual suspects when it comes to smart watch features: 4 days of battery life, GPS, music, mobile payment, and a small handful of ‘apps.’ The Ionic releases with a dormant sPO2 meter which ... Continue Reading about Ionic – Fitbit’s Expensive Step Counter

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Digital Health, Technology

Digital Therapeutics – The Third Phase of Medicine

April 8, 2017 By Bryan Vartabedian · Reading Time: 2 minutes

Chrissy Farr in Technology Review (Can Digital Therapeutics Be as Good as Drugs?) this week pulls back the curtain on digital therapeutics, Silicon Valley’s latest angle in health. Digital therapeutics, or “digiceuticals,” as some call them, have become a Holy Grail in some quarters of Silicon Valley, where investors see the chance to deliver medicine through your ... Continue Reading about Digital Therapeutics – The Third Phase of Medicine

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33c Curation | April 1, 2017

April 1, 2017 By Bryan Vartabedian · Reading Time: 2 minutes

A small collection of interesting things I came across this week. I'm trying to figure out how to become an effective curator. Headhunters beware: It’s the Airbnb of medicine Sick of Uber analogies in healthcare? We're just getting warmed up. Try the AirBnB for doctors. Physician headhunters are the next victims of the gig economy. This WSJ piece covers the ... Continue Reading about 33c Curation | April 1, 2017

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Silicon Valley Has a Health Problem Problem

July 13, 2016 By Bryan Vartabedian · Reading Time: < 1 minute

Silicon Valley has a Problem Problem by Melissa-Riva Tev is the most important thing I've read in a couple of weeks. It seems that what Silicon Valley identifies as a problem typically isn't a problem. This is true when it comes to health. A onesie sensor that texts a parent when a baby rolls over doesn't represent the solution to a problem. Access to drinking ... Continue Reading about Silicon Valley Has a Health Problem Problem

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Digital Health and the AMA Snake Oil

June 18, 2016 By Bryan Vartabedian · Reading Time: 2 minutes

This week, James Madara, CEO of the AMA loosely referenced digital health technology as snake oil. He went one further suggesting it was the AMA that was going to save us from the looming threat of 21st century progress. It’s worth a read but for all the wrong reasons. The comments showcase the Shirky Principle: institutions will work to preserve the problem to ... Continue Reading about Digital Health and the AMA Snake Oil

Tagged With: Digital health, Eric Topol, Freerange MD

Digital Health, Technology

Fitbit as the Wang Laboratories of Digital Health

July 8, 2015 By Bryan Vartabedian · Reading Time: < 1 minute

Technology’s history has a way of repeating itself. Consider Wang Laboratories. A 3 billion dollar a year operation in the 1980's, Wang built its empire on the idea that every office in the world would ultimately use a word processor - a freestanding word processor. Wang was right on the first count and wrong on the second. Ahead of its time in reference to ... Continue Reading about Fitbit as the Wang Laboratories of Digital Health

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