Digital Health Frontier Blog

In 2021, much of our work at Mayo Clinic Platform will be creating repeatable processes that achieve their intended result in a timely, repeatable, scalable[...]

By John Halamka • January 4, 2021

Recently I was speaking to Nick Dougherty, managing director of MassChallenge HealthTech, the digital health accelerator in Massachusetts. After analyzing hundreds of startups, he concluded[...]

By John Halamka • December 29, 2020

In the past year, we've become familiar with the factors that can make a person more vulnerable to COVID-19 infection. The elderly are more at[...]

By John Halamka • December 17, 2020

Recently, the Washington Post gave an in-depth analysis from the frontlines of the pandemic in Eau Claire, Wis. The moving piece portrays the compassion and ingenuity needed[...]

By John Halamka • November 30, 2020

Over the past seven months, COVID-19 has impacted our lives, and my writing moved from social media to Mayo internal communications, pandemic response research papers,[...]

By John Halamka • November 23, 2020

In our latest book, Reinventing Clinical Decision Support: Data Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, and Diagnostic Reasoning, Paul Cerrato and I explore the promise of artificial intelligence[...]

By John Halamka • April 24, 2020

I realize that my blog post frequency has diminished during COVID.   Writing time has been redirected to the national COVID-19 coalition and its 14 workgroups:AnalyticsModeling[...]

By John Halamka • April 18, 2020

The following is a post from the members of the COVID-19 Healthcare Coalition ,  #C19Coalition co-chaired by  Dr. Jay Schnitzer, Chief Medical and Technology Officer at MITRE  @MITREcorp[...]

By John Halamka • March 22, 2020

You might think a farm sanctuary doesn't need cyber-liability insurance (we do because we track social security numbers associated with donations). You may not think[...]

By John Halamka • March 21, 2020

In the upcoming week you'll see numerous writings about national private sector efforts to enhance COVID response, communication, and collaboration. As part of doing this[...]

By John Halamka • March 21, 2020