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Continuous Glucose Monitoring and the Clinical Landscape

July 1, 2021 By Bryan Vartabedian · Reading Time: 3 minutes

Continuous glucose monitoring is gaining traction in the management of type 2 diabetes. And with that primary care doctors are picking up the role of helping patients manage their diabetes. Katie Palmer of StatNews tells the story here. The piece on continuous glucose monitoring highlights a couple of emerging issues in clinical care:  Health professionals are ... Continue Reading about Continuous Glucose Monitoring and the Clinical Landscape

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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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Consumer Electronics Show as a Reflection of our Misery

January 30, 2020 By Bryan Vartabedian · Reading Time: < 1 minutes

I’ve always believed that the technology sold to us by Silicon Valley is push, not pull. In other words, these gadgets are solutions looking for a problem — not the other way around. Like the gadgetry showcased at the Consumer Electronics Show, there’s stuff we don’t need but we’re told we can’t live without.  But this look at the Consumer Electronics Show in ... Continue Reading about Consumer Electronics Show as a Reflection of our Misery

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TikTok and Health — How Will it Be Used?

January 22, 2020 By Bryan Vartabedian · Reading Time: < 1 minutes

When it comes to TikTok and health is it just for teaching and reaching teens? It looks that way. But don't count on it. Twitter was launched as a tool for ‘status updates’ — the idea was to tell the world when you were eating a ham sandwich. But that didn’t last long. We figured out that it was really good for sharing links and valuable information. The ... Continue Reading about TikTok and Health — How Will it Be Used?

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Technology is Useless Until Fueled by Human Ideas

January 15, 2020 By Bryan Vartabedian · Reading Time: 2 minutes

This quote from Jeff Howe and Joi Ito in Whiplash is worth a look. It references the birth of film as a technology and reminds us that technology is useless until fueled by human ideas: Ponder this for a moment. It took eight years, hundreds of filmmakers, and thousands of films before someone conceived of the new technology as anything other than a play in ... Continue Reading about Technology is Useless Until Fueled by Human Ideas

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Data-Driven Physician – 2020 Stanford Med Health Report

January 13, 2020 By Bryan Vartabedian · Reading Time: 2 minutes

In a field now awash with data and technologies, physicians are preparing for the transformation of patient care, according to the 2020 Health Trends Report, The Rise of the Data-Driven Physician, published by Stanford Medicine. The report documents key trends steering the healthcare's future, including an emerging digital health market, new laws opening patient ... Continue Reading about Data-Driven Physician – 2020 Stanford Med Health Report

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