Health System CIO | February 14, 2017 Listen to the second part of Dr. Kvedar’s interview on healthsystemcio.com  

NEJM Catalyst | February 8, 2017 Despite years of hype in the field of digital health products — a term that we use here to describe technologies that are designed to have clinical impact on disease — fewer products than expected are being deployed in real-world clinical settings. Many digital health products that demonstrate impressive… Read more »

Health System CIO | February 8, 2017 Listen to the first part of Dr. Kvedar’s interview on healthsystemcio.com  

MobiHealthNews | December 16, 2016 This week, the Connected Health Conference in National Harbor, Maryland brought together stakeholders and thought leaders in digital and connected health. MobiHealthNews covered the two-day event this week — links to our coverage from Monday and Tuesday are at the bottom of this roundup. Read on for other notable events… Read more »

MobiHealthNews | December 13, 2016 Digital health tools and apps are all the rage these days but that’s hardly to say they’re a new phenomenon, according to Partners HealthCare vice president of connected health Dr. Joseph Kvedar. Read more

MIT Technology Review | November 30, 2016 “If you take one thousand people who are trying to quit smoking and add an intervention that is digital and mobile, you’ll get some uptake because these people were previously using nothing [to guard against relapse],” says Joseph Kvedar, who heads the Boston-based Partners HealthCare System Center for… Read more »

KevinMD.com | November 17, 2016 I recently had the opportunity to join Boston news media veteran, Dan Rea, on his AM radio program, Nightside with Dan Rea. It was a one-hour call-in program and an eye-opening experience for me. Dan and I chatted about connected health and how it can truly disrupt care delivery and… Read more »

Fierce Health IT | November 15, 2016 Joseph Kvedar and Alexander Fogel write in a Harvard Business Review article that consumer-grade platforms such as mobile devices, wearable sensors and artificial intelligence technologies delivered via web browsers or apps can help employers combat costly chronic diseases. Read More  

Harvard Business Review | November 14, 2016 Businesses that are serious about reducing health care costs — and improving the health and well-being of their employees — should take a serious look at digital therapeutics, which have the potential to provide effective, low-cost ways to prevent and treat chronic diseases and their consequences. Digital therapeutics… Read more »

Creaky Joints | November 13, 2016 As Joseph Kvedar makes a beeline for the bakery near his office, his phone buzzes. It’s “Sam,” his virtual assistant, reminding him that a cookie won’t help him cut the James Bond-like tuxedo figure that he wants at his daughter’s upcoming wedding. Dr. Kvedar, a vice president at Partners… Read more »

AJMC | November 13, 2016 Joesph Kvedar, MD, vice president of Connected Health in the Partners HealthCare System and author of Internet of Healthy Things, envisions using technology to gather real-time biometric data for chronic disease management. Virtual provider visits, cloud computing devices, and mobile devices are increasing our capacity for immediate monitoring and chronic… Read more »

Medical Marketing & Media | October 27, 2016 For 20 years Joseph Kvedar, a pioneer in connected health, has been instrumen­tal in creating a new model of healthcare delivery at Partners HealthCare, an integrated nonprofit health system founded by Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital. There, Kvedar helped develop innovative strategies to move care… Read more »

MedTech Boston | October 19, 2016 With an eye on potential breakthroughs in patient care delivery—and a market forecasted to exceed $600B by 2024—over 1200 clinicians, entrepreneurs, researchers, policy makers, technologists, and investors will converge in Boston from October 20-21 at the 13th annual Connected Health Symposium. Read More  

NH Business Review | October 6, 2016 Meet Sam, an app that could be running Dr. Joseph Kvedar’s lifestyle regimen in the future – along with a lot of us. At least that’s the way the keynote speaker, vice president of connected health at Boston-based Partners HealthCare, described it to those attending New Hampshire Business Review’s… Read more »

FierceHealthIT | September 15, 2016 Texting is a prime tool for potentially boosting medication adherence, but not an end-all solution, according to Partners HealthCare’s Joseph Kvedar, who says that mobile health apps also can be effective, under the right circumstances. Read more  

mHealth Intelligence | September 12, 2016 In an AHRQ commentary, Partners Healthcare executives Joseph Kvedar and Stephen Agboola say patient safety has to be figured into every step of the telehealth process. Read More  

Connect 2016 | August 31, 2016 Dr. Joseph Kvedar’s talk during QualComm’s Connect 2016, Admitting Patients to Home: Scaling a successful remote care program, is available on YouTube by clicking here.  

Medical Economics | August 10, 2016 “There is a real phenomenon that doctors feel they’re staring at screens and not making eye contact with patients. But [wearable devices] could free you up so you can be more efficient and be more present with the patient while you do your work,” says Joseph C. Kvedar, MD,… Read more »

mHealth Intelligence | August 5, 2016 Joseph Kvedar, MD, vice president of connected health for Boston-based Partners Healthcare, sees patient engagement as an ongoing mystery. Healthcare providers and mHealth entrepreneurs are coming up with newer and better ways to track health outside the doctor’s office and tie it to improved outcomes, but they’ve yet to… Read more »

Athena Insight | July 26, 2016 Back in 1995, when we launched what was originally called Partners Telemedicine, the terms “mHealth” and “digital health” didn’t exist. This was well before the Internet, cloud computing, ubiquitous sensors, social networks, tablets, e-readers, mobile phones, and apps became part of the fabric of our everyday lives. I didn’t… Read more »

Forbes | June 10, 2016 Telemedicine is booming, but it’s also controversial and disconnected from mainstream medicine. Is this an idea that seems hot but proves to be just a big niche, or are we looking at a powerful force for change in healthcare? Read More  

Modern Healthcare | June 7, 2016 “We have shown that a well-run heart telemonitoring program in our hands reduces readmissions by 50% and mortality by another 40%,” Kvedar said. Read More  

BioPharmaDIVE | May 31, 2016 Pharma companies that are starting to integrate digital health tools – such as mobile health, texting, and remote monitoring programs – to achieve things such as better adherence and positive behavior change to support better outcomes, will be the winners. Read More  

mHealth Intelligence | May 25, 2016 A who’s who of telemedicine advocates is urging those in charge of the federal purse strings to be more creative in assessing the technology’s benefits on Medicare. Read More  

Scarce Insights | May 2, 2016 Harnessing the Internet of Healthy Things Today, everything and everyone is connected. Experts predict that by 2020, 26 billion everyday objects will be able to capture, receive and share data via a vast, interconnected global network linked together by inexpensive sensors, GPS and the cloud. Read More  

MedCity News | May 1, 2016 This is Dr. Kvedar’s blog post, The Quality of Virtual Visits, as hosted on MedCity News. Read More  

Politico | April 29, 2016 Despite this week’s MACRApalyse shaking up all that is known of the world of health IT, Congress is still at it when it comes to policy. Read More  

April 12, 2016 | MobiHealthNews “We’ve shown over and over that if you use technologies to link patients to their providers and you use those same tools to give those patients and consumers a path to improve their health on their own, you can change utilization in very fundamental ways that allow you to spread… Read more »

April 8, 2016 | MobiHealthNews At the Life Sciences Roundtable, co-located at the HIMSS Connected Health Conference last November, Dr. Joseph Kvedar, the vice president of connected health at Partners HealthCare, told MobiHealthNews that he sees pharma companies slowly turning their ships to align with the new realities created by digital technology. Read More