HIPAA has been law for over 20 years, and while we all sign forms at the doctor’s office (usually without reading them) acknowledging your healthcare provider’s HIPAA policy, have you ever stopped to think about what it actually means? The ‘P’ in HIPAA stands for portability, but you would not think so. One of the most […]
Patient Engagement
Partnering for Better OutcomesIn autumn 2004, my husband and I had been dating a few months when I begged him to drive me to the ER with unrelenting intense pain in my side. The next thing I remember, a surgeon announces I need an emergency cholecystectomy. I was 23, in agonizing pain, and unprepared. No […]
Doctor Appointments
We need to consolidate and centralize our health dataGrowing up in post-WWII America seems, in retrospect, to have been a lot simpler. (I was a kid, of course.) This was life before computers, cable, wi-fi, and smartphones gave us ready access to vast stores of information and advice on almost any topic.I’m not saying things […]
Caregivers
ICmed kicks off the Digital Health Collaborative We as consumers have come to expect that the companies we do business with know who we are, know what we like, and provide us with convenient ways to interact with them to get what we need. I spent several years in the contact center industry developing advanced […]
Digital Health
Michael McShea 
Michelle Riffer 
Jerry Elprin