May 2009
42 posts
Welcome to my 'our hello health' blog
Thank you Gordon…here is the introductory post on our new health professional site, “Our Hello Health” I’m so happy to be a member of a team of people all working so passionately to make the lives of physicians and their patients a much more enjoyable experience. It’s great to have leaders like Gordon on our team. I’m honored. He’s a real pioneer in making...
April 2009
56 posts
All Physicians Are Not Created Equal: How to Fix... →
Here’s my first column on fastcompany.com. I’ll be regularly writing about healthcare issues. This is the first post:
Imagine there is a committee of politicians made up of 24 republicans and 5 democrats. Their job is to decide a politician’s salary—for democrats and republicans—and decisions are made by majority rule. Which party do you think would have the highest...
“Very cool indeed; instead of changing the entire system, he’s creating a...”
– CG - Thoughts on 2.0
A comment on a blog post In response to a video of me describing Hello Health.
Kickstarter →
veken:
topherchris:
Kickstarter is a funding platform for artists, designers, filmmakers, musicians, journalists, entrepreneurs, athletes, inventors, bloggers, philanthropists, explorers…
Kickstarter just launched, and I think it’s a great idea. Go check it out.
This is amazing! Simple, Free, and only limited by your ideas and what people think of them. This is what I love about the...
Magic Doesn't Make Things Happen
Miamimed:
The following are some general rules that seem to be forgotten in the modern political debate. #1: You cannot make things happen with a philosophy of government. If I have a philosophy that says that the government should take care of the poor, and I vote for people who espouse that philosophy, it doesn’t make the government take care of the poor. What it does is generally give...
An email I received from a second year med student
Posted with permission:
Dr. Parkinson:
What can I expect when I graduate? It’s a bit silly to wonder that now, considering I should be cramming away for finals and the USMLE Step 1, but after stumbling across your site I had to ask. I’m an Indian born, Canadian raised future physician attending medical school in the American south (Georgia). Every time I turn on the news or step...
Why our healthcare system looks like CBGB's...
Supply of Physicians Our healthcare system is now made up of 75% expensive specialists and 25% primary care docs. Other countries, ranked much better than our 37th in the world, with high functioning healthcare systems are exactly opposite: 75% primary care docs and 25% specialists. We are years and years behind the ball on this one and there is no quick way to increase the supply of primary care...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-4-26) →
Beirut (66)
The Twilight Singers (39)
Yo La Tengo (28)
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart (15)
Thurston Moore (11)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
“Newcomers to the health IT business, whether individual reporters or giant...”
– Why it is always 1986 in health IT | ZDNet Healthcare | ZDNet.com
I just finished watching The Wire...
This is a photo I took from my window of the loft I lived in while at Hopkins for my Preventive Medicine residency. It was taken on May 23, 2007:
“This is the view from my loft. In the last three days, I’ve literally watched three people take their last breaths outside my window. I was writing an artist statement at my window on Sunday and heard the beginning of a crash on Dead...
ER visits and health care costs rise in... →
If Obama mandates health insurance across America, healthcare costs will increase more than they already are.
It’s as simple as that. It’s a handout to the insurance industry and, of course, they’re salivating at the opportunity for it to be against the law that we don’t buy their piss poor products.
See, it is simple economics…mandating insurance increases the...
Hello Health & Facebook
We have two Facebook pages:
Hello Health for Everybody
Hello Health for Health Professionals
Become a fan and help spread the movement. Health care has to change from the ground up, so spread the word and help us drag health care out of 1985 and change it for the better.
Awesome doctors you can communicate with normally…what more could you ask for?
Myca and Hello Health Preview Their Facebook-like... →
Today is a big day for Hello Health. We’re showing off the next version of the platform to the world. It will be launching soon. And Chuck nails the description:
“It’s part electronic medical record, part practice-management system, and part social-networking site, complete with profiles and photos of doctors and patients, all in a secure environment that complies with federal...
WatchHere’s an interview with me about Hello Health…
Wow! Thank you AllScripts!
This is great! I’d love to see this “Alliance” of all the world’s greatest designers of badly designed health care IT. Come see how you too can make a shitload off Obama’s handout to the Windows 95 health care IT industry. Brought to you by AllScripts, one of the best bad designers. Don’t worry competitors! There’s plenty to go around! It’s like...
The Future of Networked Warfare Begins with Apple →
You know…every day I think how lucky I am to be alive at this time in the history of humankind. So much possibility and so much to witness.
I’ve been posting since the launch of the App Store in iTunes that the iPhone is the next major operating system. And it’s happening and serving as the military’s choice of networking soldiers together. Absolutely makes sense....
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-4-19) →
Beirut (119)
Yo La Tengo (77)
The National (68)
Modest Mouse (38)
The Decemberists (31)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
JAY PARKINSON + MD + MPH →
I created a new main page for my site…I’m happy, but I cannot for the life of me figure out how to remove that purple outline around the top image…it’s killing me. I went to medical school, not coding school. Can anyone please help?? Please?
UPDATE: Mike Bodge of LOLZ - You kick ass…thanks for the help. And it only took 10 minutes for a good samaritan to come to the...
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The Doctor of the Future | Fast Company →
It’s finally up online…check it out. The best description yet by the press about what we’re building:
It’s part electronic medical record, part practice-management system, and part social-networking site, complete with profiles and photos of doctors and patients, all in a secure environment that complies with federal privacy standards.
Excellent news for women -- looks like the annual... →
Kevin, MD:
A recent study from the NEJM showed that a DNA test outperformed the Pap smear in reducing deaths from cervical cancer. This has tremendous implications worldwide, where cervical cancer continues to be a significant cause of death. Not only is the DNA test effective, it’s also inexpensive, costing around $5. Pap smears take a longer time to result, and have to be read by a...
“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and...”
– Dr. Seuss (via jonathanmoore)
(via rahmin)
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-4-12) →
Yo La Tengo (83)
Beirut (68)
Grizzly Bear (54)
The National (30)
Broken Social Scene (28)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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Fast Company: Hello Health...The Doctor of the...
It should be on newstands within the week. Please check it out. Fast Company has always been one of my favorite magazines, and now they’ve covered Hello Health. I launched my initial practice on September 24, 2007. A year and a half later and Fast Company calls us the Doctors of the Future…we’ve got such a good team. It’s going to be a damn fine year…
Med students. One of the reasons why I love Hello...
I get to speak to medical students. Mount Sinai invited Sean and myself for this Thursday and just sent out a Facebook Invite with the following:
THE FUTURE OF MEDICINE! HELLO HEALTH is revolutionizing health care using our familiar procrastination technology. Frustrated with the bureaucracy of health care, a group of Brooklyn physicians created Hello Health: a system of affordable, efficient,...
rahmin:
If the last 100 years was about gaining efficiency and innovation through scale and tight control of resources and communications, the next 100 will be about finding more fluid, open models of collaboration and cooperation. Playing on this new field has different rules. It requires shifting our concept of business from a legalistic model to a social one. Social contracts are very...
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Google Health Just Perpetuating Antiquated... →
My earlier blog post was reposted on Business Insider. Take a look, or you can just read it below.
Google doesn't talk well with Commodore 64s →
About two weeks ago, e-patient Dave sent me a link to his blog post about his Google Health information sucked out of the Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital in Boston. It finally made the Boston Globe this morning.
Here’s the problem. Each and every piece of multi, multi-million dollar bloated piece of crap healthcare “electronic medical record” (sounds about as dated as electronic...
Bargaining Down the Medical Bills - NYTimes.com →
You too, as an individual, can purchase health care at “bulk prices” just like insurance companies do. You just have to know the weaknesses of how our health care system works.
This is an extremely helpful article for anyone ever in need of expensive health care without having any health insurance.
You see…once hospitals have delivered care, they can’t take it back....
“With this technology, every time asthmatics use their rescue inhalers, the...”
– Gizmodo | GPS-Enabled Inhalers Help Doctors Pinpoint Asthma Triggers and Causes (via ericmortensen) (via mikehudack)
While I think this is great, I can’t wait to eliminate the need for these kinds of weird, super expensive devices. Everyone has a mobile phone and the next major operating...
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A glowing article about Hello Health in today's NY... →
Overall, a good article on Hello Health today.
So I can cross off Fox and now the NY Post for covering Hello Health. We tried to blow them off for over a month but they were able to paste together a few quotes from a telephone conversation they had with Sean and quotes from my blog to produce this story.
If they publish articles as if they’ve talked to us, imagine what they publish about...
The best summary of the Hello Health performance... →
BUILDING HEALTHY BRANDS WITH HEART, Richard Fine, Help Remedies & Jay Parkinson and Sean Khozin, Hello Health
Summary: Simplify my healthcare.
Panel discussion on the state healthcare from both product and services points of view. Both Help and HelloHealth have identified the shortcomings of a medical system that has placed the continued success of the medical business machine ahead of the...
Watchrahmin:
kortina:
Hello Health, Jay Parkinson on what medicine / primary care should be.
I’ve been digging Hello Health ever since Tyler shared his story of sitting next to Jay on a connecting flight out of SXSW. And Jay is on Tumblr himself. Awesome.
Hey Jay, when does the branch office open up in SF?
Thanks! We currently have a practice in Williamsburg. We’re opening our second actual...
“I mention this entire story because there are thousands of people all over...”
– This is how Social Media really works - Matt Haughey (via factoryjoe) (via rahmin)
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-4-5) →
Beirut (202)
Yo La Tengo (26)
The National (26)
Iron & Wine (24)
Department of Eagles (22)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
A follow up to the Times blog post earlier...
EMRs are absolutely amazing applications that solve one problem - billing insurance companies. They don’t help a doctor practice better. They don’t help a doctor make more money. In fact, most doctors who use EMRs didn’t invest their own money in them because they don’t help individual doctors make more money. They were “given” them by their employer...
Health Care Industry Moves Slowly Onto the... →
This is, in theory, great…however, we need more doctors using computers than the 9% of doctors who currently do. Right now, nearly 17% of our GDP runs on handwritten notes. The current pre-internet, boomer-based business models surrounding Health IT need to be disrupted so that medical web apps are more affordable for docs with less up-front costs and “service” fees. Very little...
Avoiding the blogger trap
marco:
Through a series of coincidences, some lucky positions, a few prominent inbound links, and just pure longevity and endurance, the size of my site’s audience is finally nontrivial. It’s nowhere near the point where putting up awful AdSense ads would generate enough to pay my electric bill, and by any other prominent blogs’ standards, it’s completely insignificant.
But I have enough...
Can we please stop killing one another?
Fine…don’t ban the goddamn guns. Satisfy the NRA loons who think 40,000 people a year should die to enable their “right.”
But at least just tax the hell out of the bullets and stop selling them at Wal-Mart for a penny a piece. Make sure those bullets cost $5000 a bullet.
Please Obama. Get some balls and stand up to the NRA in the name of those 40,000. Nowhere in the...
Blogger Loses 54.6 Pounds In 10 Weeks →
Unhealthy behavior is the #1 chronic disease in America. It leads to obesity, diabetes, lung cancer, liver cirrhosis, etc, etc, etc…
The top five most expensive diseases to treat in America…diabetes, heart disease, asthma, cancers, and depression. The top two? Mostly caused by obesity.
So…how do we, on a population level, change unhealthy behavior?
Well, we have to understand...
rahmin:
I remember having this problem when I first got the “listening to customers” religion. I felt we should just talk to as many customers as possible, and do whatever they say. But that is a bad idea. It confuses the tactic, which is listening, with the strategy, which is learning. Talking to customers is important because it helps us deal in facts about the world as it is today. If we’re...
“Focus on “minimum feature set” whenever processing feedback. It’s all too easy...”
– Lessons Learned: When NOT to listen to your users; when NOT to rely on split-tests (via rahmin) (via mikehudack)
For Some, Voice Mail Is Losing Its Allure →
Add me to this club. I absolutely hate voice mail just a tad bit more than talking on the phone. I always have all kinds of unchecked voicemails that I simply delete without checking. The other thing I don’t check is Facebook messages. A horrible interface for communicating and archiving effectively…
“I had to give up something and that, for me, was voice mail,” he said. “It’s...
“The future is here. It’s just not widely distributed yet.”
– William Gibson (via simko) One of my favorite quotes. (via mattlehrer)