Back from CES, and ready to, um, laugh about digital health
I got home from the Digital Health Summit at International CES in Las Vegas late Thursday night, and have spend most of the time since them just catching up on things. Among important news I missed was that Stephen Colbert took on health apps on Wednesday, specifically Doctor on Demand. Colbert joked that the app is going to “revolutionize medicine.” (“Why waste time getting an exam when you can just shoot your doctor an emoji of your shattered femur?”)
Ah, yes, revolutionary health apps. It has to be a joke, right?
“Clearly, app-based healthcare is the future of medicine,” Colbert continued, before introducing one of his own, from “sponsor” Prescott Pharmaceuticals.
The Doctor on Demand part starts around 3:30, but the earlier part is pretty funny, too. Some might be offended by this segment.
I will have more on the Digital Health Summit on MobiHealthNews and right here on this blog later this week.
Kind of unfair that Doctor on Demand get the publicity when American Well and a cad of others have been doing this at scale for years
I meant “scad” of others
Truth. Well, at least they’re not getting the kind of ink Google Health did when dozens of others had the PHR idea before them.
[…] the other hand, it’s been less than two weeks since Stephen Colbert made fun of Doctor on Demand. (Health 2.0 boss Matthew Holt commented on that post that it was “Kind of unfair that Doctor […]