The year health tech was in the Grim Reaper’s grip
While we are in a reflective, somber mood in late December, let's take a look at all the deaths — and a few near-death experiences — in health tech in 2016.
Friends, colleagues share their memories of Jess Jacobs
We asked individuals to contribute their memories and wishes. Many people responded.
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Inside an Automated Healthcare Practice: Redesigning Care Around People, Not Paperwork
By reducing administrative burden and redesigning workflows around human needs, it creates space for what matters most: connection between clinicians and patients.
Five most-read stories this week
The untimely passing of an empowered patient, who with her own struggles illuminated the yawning gaps in care turned out to be the most well-read story this week.
Jess Jacobs, upbeat empowered patient and Aetna innovator, dies
Jacobs regularly tweeted and blogged about her many hospital stays, including her poor experiences. She was famously outspoken and humorous about her health and her medical care.
Aetna’s Jess Jacobs steps over privacy boundaries to share her story from the hospital via Twitter
Jess Jacobs, the Director with Aetna’s Innovation Labs, is in the hospital dealing with Postural Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS). But she’s not M.I.A. due to her condition. She’s taken the opportunity to demonstrate that while privacy is a concern with patients and with medical care in many ways, there’s definite value that can come from being […]