There are many who believe that digital technology has the power to transform healthcare.
But not all have authored more than 40 scholarly publications in medical informatics, computer science, and pure and applied mathematics. That credit goes to Albert Shar, the first vice president of information technology at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. He also holds a patent in medical imaging.
Shar’s interest in health IT extends to the rapidly emerging discipline of mHealth, and his Twitter feed portrays that he is a big consumer of mobile health news. It also reveals that he isn’t shy about making an opinion or raising questions, instead of just passively reading and sharing.
Shar will be discussing the evolving standards in mobile healthon July 10 at CONVERGE. Buy your ticket here.
Here’s a short selection of his tweets:
Medicine Unplugged: The Health Care Blog #mHealththehealthcareblog.com/blog/2012/06/2’ Good points, unfortunately overstated
’ alshar (@alshar) June 22, 2012
Randomized controlled study shows #mHealth app helps Type 1 Diabetes imedicalapps.com/2012/06/random’ but is 6 months enough time?
’ alshar (@alshar) June 27, 2012
#mHealth Industry is ripe for investment imedicalapps.com/2012/06/mhealt’ But will the hype outlive the bubble?
’ alshar (@alshar) June 27, 2012
By Arundhati Parmar
Arundhati Parmar is the Medical Devices Reporter at MedCity News. She has covered medical technology since 2008 and specialized in business journalism since 2001. Parmar has three degrees from three continents - a Bachelor of Arts in English from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India; a Masters in English Literature from the University of Sydney, Australia and a Masters in Journalism from Northwestern University in Chicago. She has sworn never to enter a classroom again.More posts by Author
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