This blogpost was first published on January 10th, 2011.

Milestone: The Health-Sciences Strategy Blog’s companion Tweetstream (@HITstrategy) was recognized by the HL-7 Healthcare Standards Blog as ‘One of the Top 10 in Healthcare IT and Social Media in Healthcare in 2010′ with the #HIT sm Award.

I would like to commence this new blogpost by wishing all my readers across the globe a very healthy, happy and prosperous New Year in 2011. The year definitely commenced with good tidings for me in the form of the ‘#HIT sm Top 10 Twitters on Healthcare IT and Social Media in Healthcare Award‘ from the prestigious HL-7 Healthcare Standards blog. Please feel free to follow me on Twitter (@HITstrategy), if interested – I would be honored.

Promising Years ahead for Healthcare IT and mHealth Adoption

2011, in my humble opinion, promises to be one of the most exciting years in terms of patient and physician empowerment thanks to the convergence of healthcare technologies including electronic health records (EHRs), healthcare information exchanges (HIEs), personal health records (PHRs), patient management and clinical information systems as well as the advent of exciting mobile medical devices, services and applications. (more…)

This Blogpost was first published on the 21st of January, 2010.

This author would like to express his gratitude to the Partners Healthcare Center for Personalized Genetic Medicine and the Harvard Medical School for their invitation to author this perspective on the 2009 Personalized Medicine Conference at the Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, on the 18th and 19th of November, 2009.

 An abridged version of this blogpost has been published within Helix - the official newsletter of the Harvard Medical School – Partners Healthcare Center for Personalized Genetic Medicine in February, 2010.

The fall of 2009 presented an interesting milestone for Personalized Medicine given the focus on healthcare reform, not only in the USA but across the world at large. Perhaps never before have we seen such a sustained impetus on measurably improving quality of treatment for patients, and ensuring superior therapeutic outcomes, while driving down the total cost of treatment. (more…)

This blogpost was first published on the 13th of August, 2008.

Wal-Mart, the largest retailer in history, is betting big on Healthcare and why not!

Given the escalating costs of healthcare in a recession impacted economy with well over 47 million Americans bereft of any kind of insurance coverage, the notion of low cost retail clinics at your friendly neighborhood retail store, is an idea whose timing is night! After all, can you and should you pay for a “Mercedes Benz” like treatment at your physician’s clinic that will cost an arm and a leg for a common cold or strep throat, when a walk-in clinic at your nearest mega-retail store can offer “Toyota quality” treatment from a qualified and experienced nurse practitioner for perhaps as little as $30-60 per patient? (more…)