Comments on: How can health tech get beyond early adopters to reduce care disparities among the masses? http://gigaom.com/2013/02/22/how-can-health-tech-get-beyond-early-adopters-to-reduce-care-disparities-among-the-masses/ Tue, 21 May 2013 14:46:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Hans Gutbrod http://gigaom.com/2013/02/22/how-can-health-tech-get-beyond-early-adopters-to-reduce-care-disparities-among-the-masses/#comment-1318307 Thu, 07 Mar 2013 18:46:15 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=613059#comment-1318307 I think this is super interesting. I’m a bit surprised that you didn’t stress the role of research even more, including close observation of an almost anthropological kind, to understand how late adopters struggle with technology, and what the threshold points are.

A while back, I was involved in an effort (http://www.myelva.com/) to connect rural communities through SMS, to deliver better community security. We deliberately invested time trying to understand the people we were working with, and how they were going to use technology, their UX. As rural villagers they certainly were not early adopters, but the system ended up working extremely well.

Research can thus bridge the gap between technology and people, and given the benefits/payoff especially in health it should be worth investing into this.

]]> By: James http://gigaom.com/2013/02/22/how-can-health-tech-get-beyond-early-adopters-to-reduce-care-disparities-among-the-masses/#comment-1315230 Sat, 23 Feb 2013 13:42:45 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=613059#comment-1315230 well, health is every thing. If you are healthy then you can enjoy every moment of your life and if you are not healthy then you can not enjoy any thing of your life. Nice post :)

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