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When people think about direct-to-consumer telemedicine, they often think of video visits or phone calls.

So many well-meaning patient engagement efforts are based on a fallacy.

According to American Well CEO Roy Schoenberg, telemedicine regulation is something of a paradox: Everyone in government agrees it’s a good thing, yet it’s challenging to actually get laws passed.

Sometimes knowing what is good for you and doing what is good for you are two very different stories.

Digital health has come a long way over the past decade.

Lots of health systems pay lip service to patient-centric care, but what does that really mean? As healthcare continues its transition to paying for value and outcomes, toward managing wellness rather than treating disease, making the patient an active participant in the process is more important than ever.

To achieve the full promises of digital health, the future of healthcare technology will inevitably revolve around unobtrusive monitoring, convenient care, and more efficient management of data, argues Juhan Sonin, director of application design firm GoInvo and a lecturer at MIT.