Kevin Lasser has 29 years of experience in business-building, finance and technology solutions. He's chief executive officer of JEMS Technology, which develops a mobile healthcare solution that provides a consult anytime, anywhere, and oversees global business operations for JEMS, whose reach extends throughout North America and into Asia in both private. Additionally, he is a member of the HIMSS mHealth committee and a past chairman of MTAM's mHealth Advisory Council.
Q. What's the one promise of mHealth that will drive the most adoption over the coming year?
A. The ability to utilize the 3/g-4/g network as well as WIFI (which everyone does).
Q. What mHealth technology will become ubiquitous in the next 5 years? Why?
A. Anything involving Google Glass. There is a lot of talk and chest-pounding about it, however, the image being sent is inferior for healthcare (i.e. diagnosis, reimbursement).
Q. What's the most cutting-edge application you're seeing now? What other innovations might we see in the near future?
A. Healthcare (telehealth) being provided from first responder vehicles. Usage of medical devices that send live streaming video (information) to physician/specialists smart devices from first responder vehicles.
Q. What mHealth tool or trend will likely die out or fail?
A. Google Glass. There are too many social issues (invasion of privacy) AND IT/security directors of healthcare facilities cannot control or contain its usage.
Q. What mHealth tool or trend has surprised you the most, either with its success or its failure?
A. Lack of large-scale adoption of telehealth now that reimbursement has become much more aggressive than in prior times.
Q. What's your biggest fear about mHealth? Why?
A. Government intervention. When the government “announces” widespread changes and does not implement them quickly (which they rarely if ever do) industry stops, everybody sits around and waits for repercussions.
Q. Who's going to push mHealth "to the next level" – consumers, providers or some other party?
A. Healthcare providers, the payers (Medicaid, Medicare and private insurers) and politicians – need all three.
Q. What are you working on now?
A. Widespread adoption of our telehealth solution.
