Category: Health

Disrupting the doctor visit

This is the second of my posts from the recent Digital Health Summit at CES2015. The first covered broader aspects of wearables, sensors and data collection, but in this one I want to explore how the traditional doctors visit is being disrupted, why it’s a good thing, and how it’s going to deliver long-term change […]

Sensors, wearables & data – take outs from Digital Health Summit

After spending my first day checking out what was on the floor at CES, the next two days saw me step away from the crazy and into the Digital Health Summit. I was really excited to hear from the broad range of presenters, with physicians, care facilities, vendors, funders, VCs and an extremely important but often overlooked category; patients, […]

It’s time to get face-to-face with telehealth

While face-to-face, in-person interactions will always continue to play a key role in the delivery of healthcare services, it’s time we got serious about adding face-to-face screen based interactions into the healthcare mix. Australia is ideally placed to embrace telehealth. We have an extremely small population in global terms spread across a broad geographic landscape, […]